Reflux demo app

This demo app uses Reflux as a Flux implementation and React in conjunction with the react-router component. It's goal is to show how to use Flux in modern web apps.

Install dependencies

$ npm install -d # Install the local dependencies
$ npm run local  # And finally build the app assets (bundle.js and main.css) 

To run a simple http server (runs on port 8124 and be configured in webpack.config.js) run:

$ npm run dev

Side note: The demo was tested with Node.js 0.12 Mac OSX / React 0.13.3

Then go to http://localhost:8124 in your browser

Demo: Single page application (SPA)

This demo SPA shows how stores and actions in Flux work in conjunction with the react-router component. For the purpose of the demo, we implement a chat room store, which holds the data of all rooms and a list of all active rooms. Based on that data we implement a couple of views visualizing lists and chat rooms.

Features of the demo

• Flux implementation via Reflux
• Master/Detail view via react-Router
• CSS animations via React's CSSTransitionGroup.
• Canonical URLs via react-Router
• Application logging via Bragi
• Usage of E7 features via Bable
• Data structures with Immutable.js
• Uses BEM as CSS naming conventation
• App asset generation via Webpack and NPM!

Advantages Reflux

• Small code base (~13kb)
• For devs coming from Backbone.js it's easy to pick up
• Has hooks into the event lifecyle (preEmit, shouldEmit)
• Stores can listens to stores (not sure yet if an advantage)

Tests

The demo app contains a little test suite written with Facebook's test library Jest. You can run the tests like this: $ npm test.

That should print out something like this:

Note: Tests run only with Io.js, which should be soon obsolete, after Node.js and Io.js merge.

Unfortunately Jest has one dependency (JSDOM) which doesn't work on Node.js 0.12. If you running this Node.js version you have to install Io.js, which is super quickly done. Another good way doing it is using NVM, which is a tool to manage multiple Node.js versions on a machine. This way you can simply switch back and forth between Node.js and Io.js

Not included

• Isomorphic setup (no server side rendering)

Resources

• Reflux Documentation
• Article: Building an app using React and
• Article: Introdction to contexts
• Async request with Flux
• An example on how to model stores

Feedback

If you have any questions or if there is something you would like to see in the demo app, just open an issue and I will try to get to it asap.