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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

Inactive stores


In the previous section, we explored the idea that we can have a relatively static component infrastructure in our Flux architecture. This isn't something that causes concerns about scalability. Rather, it's the large amounts of data that's held in our stores. In this final section, we'll cover some scenarios in which we have a store with lots of data as its state, and we don't want our application to become memory-bloated.

The first approach involves deleting the data from the store, freeing resources. We can take this approach a step further by adding heuristics to our store logic that determines that nothing has changed and there's no need to touch the DOM by emitting a change event. Finally, we'll talk about some of the side-effects caused by deleting store data and how to deal with them.

Deleting store data

Something we have to think long and hard about with our Flux components is how data that enters the system will eventually exit the system. If we only put data in without...