Facebook announced that it's using the architecture they call Flux to develop their projects. It consists of a single direction dataflow, and concepts like a Dispatcher, Stores and Actions (well described here). This is their illustration of how the pieces glue together:Views ---> (actions) ----> Dispatcher ---> (registered callback) ---> Stores -------+                                                                                   ||                                                                                   V+-- (Controller-Views change event handlers) ---- (Stores emit change events) --+My question is: Is that a new idea? Is it a application architecture used before? Is it a best practice borrowed from another language/framework?The purpose of this question is to deepen the knowledge about the architecure which have been gaining lots of attention lately, and seem very different from the MV* pattern most developers I know have been working with.
Is the application architecture of Facebook Flux a new idea?
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