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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

Summary


This chapter went into detail on the view layer of Flux architectures. Starting with getting information into views, you learned that the change event is fundamental in reflecting the state of the store in the view, and that views often read directly from stores during their initial render. Then, we went over the idea that views are stateless. The state of a given UI element belongs in a store, because other parts of the application might depend on this state, and we don't want to have to query the DOM.

Next, we went over some of the high-level responsibilities of view components. These include rendering store information, composing larger view structures out of smaller view components, and handling user interactivity. We wrapped the chapter up with a walkthrough of using ReactJS components as the view technology in a Flux architecture. In the following chapter, we'll dig into the life cycle of Flux components and how they differ from other architectures.