This project is just an example of using Jakmar with React, following the Flux Application Architecture
This simple example is just a free implementation of Conway's game of life with a bit of color:
- blue indicates living cells
- red indicates cells that just died
- green indicates cells that just appeared
To run the example, you need NodeJS and Bower installed. Then install Gulp for the build:
npm install -g gulp
Run the following next:
npm install
bower install
Then you are ready to go! Just run gulp and that should open a browser with the example running.
To illustrate the use of Jakmar, please look at src/stores/LifeStore.js
This is my first try with React. I really wanted to get an idea of what is it that makes React so attractive. I'm probably only using a tenth of all React's features, but I really enjoy what I see so far, looking at components and the way it uses states. I also think the fact that I use it with the Flux architecture makes it nice to use.
On the downside I would say that some aspects likes actions are quite verbose, but I think once you reach a certain size you might want to tweak that aspect to make it easier using / registering events and actions for your flow.
Last, I didn't use the JSXTransformer because I wanted to have a feel of what it is that this JSXTransformer actually compiles too. I think the result is less readable and will definitely look at the transformer soon.
- Parameterize the world size
- Refactor store to separate cell logic