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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

Using Alt


Alt.js is a Flux library that implements a lot of the boilerplate code for us. It completely adheres to the Flux concepts and patterns, but let's us focus on the architecture from the perspective of our application, rather than worrying about action constants and switch statements.

In this section, we'll touch on the core concepts of Alt before diving into a simple todo list example. The example is intentionally simple—you'll be able to map the code back to the Flux concepts you've learned about so far in this book.

The core ideas

The main goal of the Facebook Flux package is to provide a reference implementation of a basic dispatcher component. This serves well as an aide to the concepts of Flux—actions are dispatched to stores in a synchronous, unidirectional fashion. As we've seen through the book, the dispatcher concept doesn't even necessarily need to be exposed to those who are implementing Flux. We can simplify the Flux abstractions and yet still fall within the constraints...