Questions tagged [refluxjs]

A simple library for uni-directional dataflow application architecture inspired by reactjs flux (available at https://github.com/reflux/refluxjs)

Similarities with Flux

Some concepts are still in Reflux in comparison with Flux:

• There are actions
• There are data stores
• The data flow is unidirectional

Differences with Flux

Reflux has refactored Flux to be a bit more dynamic and be more Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) friendly:

• The singleton dispatcher is removed in favor for letting every action act as dispatcher instead.
• Because actions are listenable, the stores may listen to them. Stores don't need to have a big switch statements that does static type checking (of action types) with strings
• Stores may listen to other stores, i.e. it is possible to create stores that can aggregate data further, similar to a map/reduce.
• waitFor is replaced in favor to handle serial and parallel data flows:
  • Aggregate data stores (mentioned above) may listen to other stores in serial
  • Joins for joining listeners in parallel
• Action creators are not needed because RefluxJS actions are functions that will pass on the payload they receive to anyone listening to them