The Flux Way

A journey from MVC to a better world.

Created by Antonin Januska / @antjanus

About Me

Skip this part if you've read any of my previous slides

• Web developer for 9-ish years
• Embraced MV* frameworks since 2012: KnockoutJS, AngularJS, VueJS (briefly) and now, React
• Developed base AngularJS for Zurb's Foundation for Apps
• Senior Engineer at Landdox - working with AngularJS and NodeJS
• Fiction and non-fiction Writer
• Teacher of technoogies

About Flux

• Application architecture that's not tied to a library (but associated with ReactJS)
• alternative to MVC
• formally described by Facebook to be used with React
• one-way data flow
• hella confusing

Prerequisites

• React - don't know it? Read my guide
• Javascript + ES6
• MVC (optional)

Prerequisites

• React - don't know it? Read my guide
• Javascript + ES6
• MVC (optional)

The MVC way (Angular used as an example)

What's the problem with MVC?

• MVC is GREAT

• MVC is not so great for front-end applications

• doesn't deal with evented situations

• information has to be fetched and re-fetched
• out-of-sync models are an issue
• data-flow/lifecycle can be confusing

(I take it back. Flux is just another way of doing things. It's no worse/better)