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Published inApr 2016
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781785289644
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Vipul A M
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Vipul A M is Director at BigBinary. He is part of Rails Issues Team, and helps triaging issues. His spare time is spent exploring and contributing to many Open Source ruby projects, when not dabbling with React JS. Vipul loves Ruby's vibrant community and helps in building PuneRb, is the founder of and runs RubyIndia Community Newsletter and RubyIndia Podcast, and organizes Deccan Ruby Conference in Pune. He can be found @vipulnsward on twitter and on his site http://vipulnsward.com.
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Flux stores


"Cool, it looks like now we are all set to create our store."

"Yup Shawn. We will start by defining the state object that we will keep on updating and using as a store."

var AppDispatcher = require('../dispatcher/AppDispatcher');
var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
var SocialConstants = require('../constants/SocialConstants');
var assign = require('object-assign');
var _ = require('underscore');

var CHANGE_EVENT = 'change';

var _state = {
  tweets: [],
  reddits: [],
  feed: [],
  showTweets: true,
  showReddits: true
};

"We have also defined a CHANGE_EVENT constant that we use as an identifier to listen to events of the change type from the event emitter in our store."

"We then define a method to update the states, creating a new one."

function updateState(state) {
  _state = assign({}, _state, state);
}

"This merges the new properties that need to be updated and merged into the existing state and updated the current state."

"Cool, this looks somewhat similar to the...

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Vipul A M

Vipul A M is Director at BigBinary. He is part of Rails Issues Team, and helps triaging issues. His spare time is spent exploring and contributing to many Open Source ruby projects, when not dabbling with React JS. Vipul loves Ruby's vibrant community and helps in building PuneRb, is the founder of and runs RubyIndia Community Newsletter and RubyIndia Podcast, and organizes Deccan Ruby Conference in Pune. He can be found @vipulnsward on twitter and on his site http://vipulnsward.com.
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