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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about some of the limitations that are inherent with the Facebook Flux component. For starters, it's not targeted for production environments, because it's a reference implementation for the Flux patterns. We're free to implement these dispatcher patterns however we like.

The essential aspects of a dispatcher are the ability to register store code that handles actions as they're dispatched and the ability to perform the dispatches. Given the simplicity of the requirements, it doesn't make sense to implement another singleton class. Instead, the dispatcher only needs to expose a register() and dispatch() function.

The big change with our implementation was with regard to dependency management. Instead of figuring out dependencies every time an action is dispatched, the register() function sorts the stores collection in such a way that satisfies the store dependencies. We then implemented a base store class that's used to simplify our store code by automatically...