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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

Parameterized action creators


The final section of this chapter focuses on parameterized action creators. All the action creator functions we've looked at so far in the chapter have been basic functions that don't accept any arguments. This is fine, except for when we start to accumulate several unique actions that are nearly identical. Without parameterized action creator functions, we'll soon have an endless proliferation of functions; this does not scale.

First, we'll establish the goals of passing arguments to action creator functions, followed by some example code that implements generic action creator functions. We'll then look into creating partial functions to further reduce repetitiveness by composing action creators.

Removing redundant actions

Action creators are plain JavaScript functions. This means that they can accept zero or more arguments when called. The whole point of implementing a function, regardless of whether or not it's in the context of Flux, is to reduce the amount...