React Dispatcher

Part of flux-react, the dispatcher will let stores register to it with callbacks. Read more about FLUX and the dispatcher over at Facebook Flux.

Download from dist: ReactDispatcher.min.js or install with npm install flux-react-dispatcher.

Scope

• Has a register method for registering callbacks to stores
• Has a dispatch method for dispatching a payload to all stores
• The callback on register receives the payload and a waitFor function
• The waitFor function is used to wait for specific stores to finish their registered callback before continuing
• The waitFor method gives errors if circular dependencies occur
• The waitFor callback is bound to the store and receives the payload, for conveniance
• The waitFor method takes either a single store or an array of stores
• The dispatcher works with common module loaders

Example

var ReactDispatcher = require('flux-react-dispatcher');
var Dispatcher = new ReactDispatcher();

var StoreA = {
	dispatch: function () {}
};

var StoreB = {
	data: {},
	handleData: function (payload) {
		this.data = payload.data;
	},
	dispatch: function (payload, waitFor) {
		switch (payload.type) {
			case 'update':
				waitFor(StoreA, this.handleData);
				break;
		}
	}

};
Dispatcher.register(StoreA, StoreA.dispatch); // Binds the callback to the store
Dispatcher.register(StoreB, StoreB.dispatch);
Dispatcher.dispatch({});

Contribute

Develop

• Run npm install
• Run gulp
• Any changes to files in app/ will be compiled to dev/

Test

• Run `gulp test -'./tests/ReactDispatcher-test.js'
• Open the test.html file in your browser
• Any changes to files in app/ and the test file will autoreload the browser

Run test in terminal

• Run npm test
• Currently uses phantomJS, though you can use chrome