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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

Adapting to changing information


Earlier in the book, I mentioned that stores aren't models from MV* architectures. They're different from a number of perspectives, including their ability to cope with changing schemas in other architectural areas, such as the API and changing feature requirements. In this section, we'll look at the Flux store's ability to adapt to changing APIs. We'll also address the opposite direction of change, when views that consume store data have changing requirements. Finally, we'll talk about other components that might change as the direct result of a store's ongoing evolution.

Changing API data

API data changes, especially during the early stages of development. Even though we tell ourselves that a given API is going to stabilize over time, this rarely works out in practice. Or if an API does become stable and unchanging, we end up having to use a different API. The safe assumption is that this data is going to change, and our stores will need to adapt to such...