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React.js Essentials

You're reading from   React.js Essentials A fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551620
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Artemij Fedosejev Artemij Fedosejev
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Preface 1. Installing Powerful Tools for Your Project 2. Create Your First React Element FREE CHAPTER 3. Create Your First React Component 4. Make Your React Components Reactive 5. Use Your React Components with Another Library 6. Update Your React Components 7. Build Complex React Components 8. Test Your React Application with Jest 9. Supercharge Your React Architecture with Flux 10. Prepare Your React Application for Painless Maintenance with Flux Index

Understanding Flux


Flux is the application architecture from Facebook that complements React. It's not a framework or a library, but rather a solution to a common problem; how to build scalable client-side applications.

With the Flux architecture, we can rethink how data flows inside our application. Flux makes sure that all our data flows only in a single direction. This helps us reason about how our application works, regardless of how small or large it is. With Flux, we can add a new functionality without exploding our application's complexity.

You might have noticed that both React and Flux share the same core concept; one-way data flow. That's why they naturally work well together. We know how data flows inside a React component, but how does Flux implement the one-way data flow?

With Flux, we separate the concerns of our application into four logical entities:

  • Actions

  • Dispatcher

  • Stores

  • Views

Actions are objects that we create when our application's state changes. For example, when our application...

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