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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

Challenges with the dispatcher


In the preceding section, we caught a glimpse of some of the potential challenges with the Facebook reference implementation of a Flux dispatcher. In this section, we'll elaborate on some some of this reasoning, in an attempt to provide motivation to implement our own custom dispatcher.

In this section, we'll reiterate the fact that the Flux NPM package mainly exists as an educational tool. Depending on a package like this is fine, especially since it does the job, but we'll go over some of the risks that something like this carries in a production context. Then, we'll talk about the fact that dispatcher components are singleton instances and they probably don't need to be.

We'll then think about the store registration process and the fact that it's a more manual process than it needs to be. Finally, we'll touch on the store dependency management problem again with a discussion on waitFor() and possible declarative alternatives.

Educational purposes

The Facebook...