Flux Architecture

Keeping views stateless

Views can't be completely stateless because they interact with the DOM, and the DOM elements associated with a view will always have a state. However, we can take steps to treat views as stateless entities within the context of our Flux architecture. In this section, we'll address two aspects of stateless views.

First, we'll go over the idea that all state in a Flux architecture belongs in a store, including any UI state that we might be tempted to keep in our view components. Second, we'll look at DOM querying and why we want to avoid doing this from within our Flux views.

UI state belongs in stores

As you learned in the previous chapter, UI state is just like state that's derived from application data—it all belongs in a ...