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Flux Architecture

By : Adam Boduch
Book Image

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

Feature action creators


Action creator functions need to be organized, just as action constants are. In the preceding code examples of this chapter, we've organized both our action constants and our action creator functions into modules. This keeps our action code clean and easy to traverse. In this section, we'll build on this idea from the feature point of view. We'll look at why this is worth thinking about in the first place, then we'll talk about how these ideas make the architecture as a whole more modular.

When modularity is needed

Do we need to think deeply about modular action creator functions at the beginning of our Flux project? While the project is still small in size, it's okay if all action creator functions are part of one monolithic action creator module—there's simply no meaningful impact on the architecture. It's when we have more than a dozen or so actions that we need to start thinking about modularity and, in particular, features.

We can split our action creator module...