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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

Implementing core Flux components


In this section, we're going to reiterate the idea that we can change the implementation specifics of the various Flux components in our architecture. We'll start by talking about the dispatcher itself, and think about the various changes that we might make. Then, we'll think about stores and the enhancements we might want to make there. Finally, we'll discuss actions and action creator functions.

Customizing the dispatcher

In Chapter 10, Implementing a Dispatche r, we implemented our own dispatcher component. The reference implementation by Facebook is perfectly fine to use, but it's not meant to be the de-facto component found in every production Flux architecture. Instead, it's meant to be a jumping off point, so we can see how the Flux dispatcher specification is supposed to work.

Our solution was to expose the dispatch() and register() functions from the dispatcher module. By doing so, we made using the dispatcher a little more direct in other areas of...