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luxJS is a fairly opinionated Flux-based architecture for building applications with ReactJS.
We love the name "Flux" (Latin for "flow") and wanted something that gave an appropriate nod and had a connection with that name. As we adopted React at LeanKit, we really began to feel like we were seeing the web in a new light. In following the Flux principle of uni-directional data flow, we finally felt as if we had clear visibility into state changes (and their repercussions) in our apps. "Lux" is Latin for "light" - and it seemed to cover both the goal of having a connection to Flux and also describing our experience with using React in a Flux-style architecture. Unfortunately, nearly any good name is already taken on npm (and usually by a project that hasn't been touched in 2 years), so we added "JS" in order to stick with the name we know and love - lux.
- ReactJS
- traceur (lux is written in ES6, so it depends on the traceur runtime lib for non-ES6 environments)
- postal
- machina
(This section will be growing and changing for a while!)
- How Actions are Dispatched in lux
- lux-specific React Components
- ActionCreators
- Stores
- Dispatcher
- ActionCoordinator
- Message Contracts
There are already a handful of other Flux-style implementations (and they're quite nice) - so why build our own? What were/are our goals? Are we insane? Find out the answer to those - and more - questions by reading about the lux philosophy.