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Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
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What is Flux?

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.
Flux is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
Flux is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Flux's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Flux?

Companies
96 companies reportedly use Flux in their tech stacks, including Facebook, Figma, and BlaBlaCar.

Developers
383 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Flux.

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Pros of Flux
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Unidirectional data flow
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Architecture
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Structure and Data Flow
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Not MVC
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Open source
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Created by facebook
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A gestalt shift

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Flux Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Flux?
Flow
Flow is an online collaboration platform that makes it easy for people to create, organize, discuss, and accomplish tasks with anyone, anytime, anywhere. By merging a sleek, intuitive interface with powerful functionality, we're out to revolutionize the way the world's productive teams get things done.
Mono
It is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications part of the .NET Foundation. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
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Flux's Followers
508 developers follow Flux to keep up with related blogs and decisions.