What is Flux in React ?

Flux is a design pattern developed at Facebook that was designed to keep data flowing in one direction.

What does React or Flux have to do with functional JavaScript ?

• Flux provides a way to provide the data that React will use to create the UI
• In Flux, application state data is managed outside of React components in stores. Stores hold and change the data, and are the only thing that can update a view in Flux

What is dispatcher in React ?

An action provides the instructions and data required to make a change. Actions are dispatched using a central control component called the dispatcher

About Flux Implementations

There are different approaches to the implementation of Flux. A few libraries have been open-sourced based upon specific implementations of this design pattern. Here are a few approaches to Flux worth mentioning

• Flux:Facebook’s Flux is the design pattern that we just covered. The Flux library includes an implementation of a dispatcher.
• Reflux:A simplified approach to unidirectional data flow that focuses on actions, stores, and views
• Flummox:A Flux implementation that allows you to build Flux modules through extending JavaScript classes
• Fluxible:A Flux framework created by Yahoo for working with isomorphic
• Redux:A Flux-like library that achieves modularity through functions instead of objects.
• MobX:A state management library that uses observables to respond to changes in state.