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Modern JavaScript Applications

By : Narayan Prusty
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Modern JavaScript Applications

By: Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Over the years, JavaScript has become vital to the development of a wide range of applications with different architectures. But JS moves lightning fast, and it’s easy to fall behind. Modern JavaScript Applications is designed to get you exploring the latest features of JavaScript and how they can be applied to develop high-quality applications with different architectures. Begin by creating a single page application that builds on the innovative MVC approach using AngularJS, then move forward to develop an enterprise-level application with the microservices architecture using Node to build web services. After that, shift your focus to network programming concepts as you build a real-time web application with websockets. Learn to build responsive, declarative UIs with React and Bootstrap, and see how the performance of web applications can be enhanced using Functional Reactive Programming (FRP). Along the way, explore how the power of JavaScript can be increased multi-fold with high performance techniques. By the end of the book, you’ll be a skilled JavaScript developer with a solid knowledge of the latest JavaScript techniques, tools, and architecture to build modern web apps.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Modern JavaScript Applications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding Flux


Flux is an application architecture and not a framework. You can think of it as an alternative to MVC. It was primarily developed to be used with React as both of them are based on unidirectional data flow. The Flux architecture enforces unidirectional data flow.

Here is a diagram that shows all the parts of the Flux architecture and how data flows in it:

Here is how each part works:

  • Actions: An action is an object that describes what we want to do and the data that we need to do it. In Flux, all events and data from all sources are converted to actions. Even UI events are converted to actions.

  • Dispatcher: The dispatcher is a special type of event system. It is used to broadcast actions to registered callbacks. What the dispatcher does is not the same as a pub/sub system, as callbacks are not subscribed to particular events. Instead, every action is dispatched to every registered callback. An application should contain only one dispatcher.

  • Action creators: Action creators...