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MobX Quick Start Guide

By : Pavan Podila, Michel Weststrate
Book Image

MobX Quick Start Guide

By: Pavan Podila, Michel Weststrate

Overview of this book

MobX is a simple and highly scalable state management library in JavaScript. Its abstractions can help you manage state in small to extremely large applications. However, if you are just starting out, it is essential to have a guide that can help you take the first steps. This book aims to be that guide that will equip you with the skills needed to use MobX and effectively handle the state management aspects of your application. You will first learn about observables, actions, and reactions: the core concepts of MobX. To see how MobX really shines and simplifies state management, you'll work through some real-world use cases. Building on these core concepts and use cases, you will learn about advanced MobX, its APIs, and libraries that extend MobX. By the end of this book, you will not only have a solid conceptual understanding of MobX, but also practical experience. You will gain the confidence to tackle many of the common state management problems in your own projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Observables, Actions, and Reactions

Describing the structure of the client state is the first step in UI development. With MobX, you do this by creating your tree of observables. As the user interacts with the app, actions are invoked on your observable state, which in turn can cause reactions (aka side-effects). Continuing from Chapter 1Introduction to State Management, we will now take a deeper look at the core concepts of MobX.

The topics covered in this chapter include:

  • Creating the various kinds of observables
  • Setting up the actions that mutate the observables
  • Using reactions to handle external changes