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Flux Architecture

By : Adam Boduch
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Flux Architecture

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

Whilst React has become Facebook’s poster-child for clean, complex, and modern web development, it has quietly been underpinned by its simplicity. It’s just a view. The real beauty in React is actually the architectural pattern that handles data in and out of React applications: Flux. With Flux, you’re able to build data-rich applications that engage your users, and scale to meet every demand. It is a key part of the Facebook technology stack that serves billions of users every day. This book will start by introducing the Flux pattern and help you get an understanding of what it is and how it works. After this, we’ll build real-world React applications that highlight the power and simplicity of Flux in action. Finally, we look at the landscape of Flux and explore the Alt and Redux libraries that make React and Flux developments easier. Filled with fully-worked examples and code-first explanations, by the end of the book, you'll not only have a rock solid understanding of the architecture, but will be ready to implement Flux architecture in anger.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Flux Architecture
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Packaging Flux components


In this last section, we'll think about the composition of large Flux applications from the point of view of packages. First, we'll make the case for a monolithic distribution of a Flux application, and the point at which this approach becomes untenable. Then we'll talk about packages, and how they help us scale up the Flux application development effort. Finally, we'll walk through an example of how this might work.

The case for monolithic Flux

Anyone who has been caught in dependency hell knows that it's an unpleasant place to be. Generally speaking, we bring these issues on ourselves by relying too heavily on third-party packages. For example, we might use a couple components from a gigantic library, or we might use an exceedingly simple library for something we could have written ourselves. In any case, we end up with more dependencies than what's justified for the size and scope of our project.

Just because we're implementing a Flux architecture for our application...