13. Creating UIs that Scale with Flux

“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”

Moshe ben Maimon (1135–1204 CE)

In the previous chapter, we took a look at React, a JavaScript framework that focuses solely on the views within your browser. It takes a strong, opinionated stance on one-way data flow, and its controls are all rendered in response to notifications of state change and the reverse should never happen.

This felt like a diversion from our steady progression of building up our Go microservice development skills. This chapter is also going to focus more on the UI, though we will be creating a microservice that supports our highly scalable front-end.

In this chapter, we’ll discuss:

The Flux pattern and choose ...

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