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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

Chapter 3. Building a Skeleton Architecture

The best way to think in Flux is to write code in Flux. This is why we want to start building a skeleton architecture as early as possible. We call this phase of building our application the skeleton architecture because it isn't yet the full architecture. It's missing a lot of key application components, and this is on purpose. The aim of the skeleton is to keep the moving parts to a minimum, allowing us to focus on the information our stores will generate for our views.

We'll get off the ground with a minimalist structure that, while small, doesn't require a lot of work to turn our skeleton architecture into our code base. Then, we'll move on to some of the information design goals of the skeleton architecture. Next, we'll dive into implementing some aspects of our stores.

As we start building, we'll begin to get a sense of how these stores map to domains—the features our users will interact with. After this, we'll create some really simple views...