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Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications

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Re: Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications

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Post by colinramsay »

I'm scanning the documentation for this now and the "state sources" concept looks useful. Stores seem to be a bit cleverer than in other Flux implementations too.

The fact it's got a Chrome extension and what appears to be comprehensive documentation bodes well. I'm currently using reflux because I like its simplicity (no dispatcher and no action creators) but Marty has definitely piqued my interest.

Edit: Question for the author. Any thoughts on isomorphic apps with Marty? Edit2: Answering my own question: https://github.com/jhollingworth/marty/issues/13

Re: Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications

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Post by oliverwoodings »

I've contributed to this project on the state sources.

For me Marty is the best Flux implementation available right now. When reviewing other frameworks I found them to be either too restrictive by imposing non-flux limitations or the complete opposite by not implementing the flux principles well enough.

Re: Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications

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Post by glifchits »

colinramsay wrote: post #2

I'm scanning the documentation for this now and the "state sources" concept looks useful. Stores seem to be a bit cleverer than in other Flux implementations too. The fact it's got a Chrome extension and what appears to be comprehensive documentation bodes well. I'm currently using reflux because I like its simplicity (no dispatcher and no action creators) but Marty has definitely piqued my interest. Edit: Question f…

General impression is the same. I'm using Reflux and quite happy with it, but this does seem pretty smart. Having built in rollback of actions is nice, and having the versatility of where-queries to invoke action handlers is interesting. Not sure if its worth the switch, there aren't really pain points to be solved here... but my next React project might use this.

Re: Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications

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Post by dalacv »

agilebyte wrote: post #6

In Marty: since you attach a Store to a React via a Mixin that looks for a singleton, can you have a dynamic number of stores when you have a dynamic number of React components of the same type?

This sounds like a line from a movie for a character which is the nerd/genius in the movie.

I'm not very technical, by the way.

Re: Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications

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Post by oliverwoodings »

prottmann wrote: post #7

Can't see a difference between marty and fluxxor. The examples look for me the same, except some additional functions to declare things.

A first look at the examples for both projects would give you that impression.

Some areas that Marty differs in: - State sources: http://martyjs.org/api/state-sources/index.html - Contants are handled more intelligently: http://martyjs.org/api/constants/index.html - Dev tools: http://martyjs.org/devtools/

Re: Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications

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Post by jfhollingworth »

prottmann wrote: post #7

Can't see a difference between marty and fluxxor. The examples look for me the same, except some additional functions to declare things.

Author here. I found that no other Flux implementation really helped with fetching data in a Fluxy way. There tended to be a lot of boiler plate code for binding stores to components. Furthermore, there was a lack of tooling for debugging. Marty helps combat these issues by introducing a number of new things:

- Fetch API for fetching data asynchronously without callbacks http://martyjs.org/guides/stores/fetching-data.html - State Mixins for binding stores to views http://martyjs.org/api/state-mixin/ - State sources for syncing state from heterogeneous sources http://martyjs.org/guides/state-sources/index.html - Chrome Developer extension (beta) for visualising the data flow and state of stores http://martyjs.org/devtools/

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