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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

Using ReactJS with Flux


ReactJS is a library for creating view components. In fact, React doesn't even label itself as a view library—it's a set of tools for creating components that render UI elements. This simple premise is easy to understand and powerful—a perfect fit as the view technology in our Flux architecture.

In this section, we'll look at making ReactJS the technology of choice for views in our Flux applications, starting with passing state information from stores into React components. Next, we'll talk about the composition of views, and how Flux state flows from stores to parent views to child views. Lastly, we'll implement some event handling capabilities in our views using React mechanisms and a router using the react-router library.

Setting the view state

There are two ways to render React components based on the state of our Flux stores. These involve two different types of components—statefull and stateless—both of which we'll address here. First, let's take a look at the...