reactflux

What is reactflux

The base classes for Facebook react/flux.

Install

npm install --save-dev reactflux

How to use

Check sample TODO application.

Component

You must implement initStore method.

import React from 'react';
import ReactFlux from 'reactflux';
import TodoStore from '../stores/Todo';

export default class Todo extends ReactFlux.BaseComponent
{
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }

  initStore(){
    return TodoStore;
  }

Store

The second argument of constructor is inital state object.

import Dispatcher from '../AppDispatcher';
import ReactFlux from 'reactflux';

class TodoStore extends ReactFlux.BaseStore
{
  constructor() {
    super(Dispatcher, {

    });
  }

Use facebook flux dispatcher for ../AppDispatcher.es6.

You can get the initial state by getInitialState method, and reset to the initial state using clearState method.

import Flux from 'flux';

export default new Flux.Dispatcher();

Actions

import Dispatcher from '../AppDispatcher';
import ReactFlux from 'reactflux';
import TodoConst from '../constants/TodoConstants';

class TodoActions extends ReactFlux.BaseActions
{
  constructor() {
    super(Dispatcher);
  }

  updateTitle(value){
    this.dispatch(TodoConst.ActionTypes.BIND_TODO_TITLE, {title: value});
  }
}

export default new TodoActions()

TodoActions.dispatch return Promise object. You can chain store change events.

doSomething(){
  this.dispatch(TodoConst.ActionTypes.OPERATION_1)
    .then(() => this.dispatch(TodoConst.ActionTypes.OPERATION_2))
    .then(() => {
      return new Promise(resolve => {
        $.ajax({url: '/ajax/update'}).done(() => {
          this.dispatch(TodoConst.ActionTypes.OPERATION_AJAX).then(() => resolve());
        });
      });
    })
    .then(() => this.dispatch(TodoConst.ActionTypes.OPERATION_3));
}

reactflux require global Promise object. If you want to use on browsers that lack the Promise, check out the polyfill.

Constants

For make constants object, use ReactFlux.handlers().

import ReactFlux from 'reactflux';

export default{
  ActionTypes: ReactFlux.handlers([
    "BIND_TODO_TITLE"
  ])
};

This make object like this:

{"BIND_TODO_TITLE": "handleBindTodoTitle"}

If you make handleBindTodoTitle method in a store class, the store handle this event.

import Dispatcher from '../AppDispatcher';
import ReactFlux from 'reactflux';

class TodoStore extends ReactFlux.BaseStore
{
  constructor() {
    super(Dispatcher, {
      'title': ''
    });
  }

  handleBindTodoTitle(payload){
    var title = payload.data.title;
    this.setState({'title', title});
  }

handler... method emit the state change event automatically. If you want cancel that, return false.