Flux react, can an action get a store?

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Is it an anti-pattern that an action use something like store.get() ? I'm not sure this is a good idea to do that

I guess it can but it makes the action coupled to that one store. If you have one store then it might be okay but otherwise no. — Henrik Andersson, Sep 17 '15 at 04:51
@FrançoisRichard try to post simplified/anonymized examples of what happens in your app. Maybe someone'll suggest another way to do the same — VB_, Sep 17 '15 at 14:28

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '15 at 07:58

Yes, its a bad idea to call stores from actions. Only place where stores should be called is in views. For the simple reason that it defies the idea of uni-directional data flow.

It should always be Views -> Action -> Dispatcher -> Stores -> Views and where as in your case it would be-

Views -> Action -> Dispatcher -> Stores -> Views
              ^                   |
              * <-    <-   <-   <-*

which is obviously not uni-directional.

Flux react, can an action get a store?

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