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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

Stores and feature domains


With more traditional frontend architectures, models that map directly to what's returned from the API provide a clear and concise data model for our JavaScript components to work with. Flux, as we now know, leans more in the direction of the user, and focuses on the information that they need to see and interact with. This doesn't need to be a gigantic headache for us, especially if we're able to decompose our user interface into domains. Think of a domain as a really big feature.

In this section, we'll talk about identifying the top-level features that form the core of our UI. Then, we'll work on shedding irrelevant API data from the equation. We'll finish the section with a look at the structure of our store data, and the role it plays in the design of our skeleton architecture.

Identifying top-level features

During the skeleton architecture phase of our Flux project, we should jump in and start writing store code, just as we've done in this chapter. We've been...