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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

Combining API calls


As development moves forward and features become more involved, we're inevitably faced with complex API scenarios. This means that there's no longer a simple API endpoint that delivers everything the feature needs with one call. Instead, our code has to stitch together two or more resources from different endpoints just to get the data needed by the feature.

In this section, we'll look at action creator functions that fetch data from multiple asynchronous resources and pass them to stores as payload data. These stores then convert these to information required by features. Then, we'll look at an alternative approach, where we compose action creator functions out of smaller action creator functions, each pulling data from their own asynchronous resource.

Complex action creators

Sometimes, a single API endpoint doesn't have all of the data we need for a given store. This means that we have to fetch data from multiple API endpoints. The challenge is that these are asynchronous...