Rebuilding HipChat with React.js

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This is really cool and a great write up! I've been using React for about 6 months on my side projects and I really love it. The only issue I have now is, where do I learn Flux? I mean I can go through the tutorials that they have , but there doesn't seem to be any standard Framework or canonical way of using it.

From the article "When Flux was announced, it was just a pattern. Facebook didn't release a library. We adopted the pattern for our new web client. However, because we built our Flux library from scratch"

Are there any posts/blogs that highlight the different flux frameworks? Or any recommended way to get started? There seems to be so many right now I'm feeling kind of overwhelmed on where to start (Fluxy, Fluxxor, Reflux, etc..)

First decide if you need Flux at all. I've seen a lot of "React people" talk about first getting all you can out of React-Router, and eventually if your app gets big enough you'll "feel a need" for something like Flux. If you're doing smaller apps as side projects, you may never even need to implement it.

But if you do, step one is read this: https://reactjsnews.com/the-state-of-flux/

Then pick one and just start playing around.

Rich from HipChat here. I haven't looked at all the various Flux libs out there, but since Facebook's initial announcement of Flux, they've made their example a bit more generic and it can actually be used as a starting point https://github.com/facebook/flux.

The big thing with flux is the dispatcher. You don't want to get into the habit of using your dispatcher as an event emitter. Once you have a proper Flux dispatcher, the rest falls into place.

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