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Published inApr 2016
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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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"Now we need to define the actions types that we are going to refer to as constants at various places, such as sending the type from Actions to store, and in our store, deciding what action type has been passed to store to take appropriate actions.

//SocialConstants.js
var keyMirror = require('keymirror');

module.exports = keyMirror({
  FILTER_BY_TWEETS: null,
  FILTER_BY_REDDITS: null,
  SYNC_TWEETS: null,
  SYNC_REDDITS: null

});

"Here, we are using the https://github.com/STRML/keyMirror package to create keys and values for the object based on the keys. This will convert into object similar to below."

{
FILTER_BY_TWEETS: 'FILTER_BY_TWEETS', 
…
}

"This is handy when adding new keys to not repeat the same contents again."

"We can now start using the action constants. They represent four actions that we are going to perform, as follows:"

  • SYNC_TWEETS: This fetches the tweets for a given user

  • SYNC_REDDITS: This fetches the reddits for a give topic

  • FILTER_BY_TWEETS: This only displays...

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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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