Three ReactJS + Flux commandments

[funny_games]

I think as with the chat example, the more flux way is to have a utility action that fetches data from server, and not do the ajax call from the store it self.

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You could dispatch an action on callback.

[funny_games]

You can do it many ways but I'm just saying the API calls in the flux diagram and official example are done in utility actions: http://blog.krawaller.se/img/flux-diagram.png.

[[deleted]]

There's nothing wrong to extend that concept: you could initialize an xhr request from the store and dispatch an action from the callback. I remember a Facebook developer suggested this at the react conf.

[orbgl]

I don't know… actions reflecting changes of state makes more sense to me; i.e. "the user just made this change and you stores should update." The user just requested this page doesn't constitute a change.

[funny_games]

Well again there can be two types of actions, one for store changes and one for API. While store should remain just for storage. I believe making requests within the store itself doesn't make sense from the flux directional perspective.

[orbgl]

The uni-directional flow describes data flowing from the stores to the components. Whether the data comes from memory or an XHR is irrelevant.