Make proper mixin interfaces for Store and Action interfaces about refluxjs

[spoike]

There seems to be a usecase for this mentioned on twitter by @undoZen:

https://twitter.com/undoZen/status/500573096403693568

@spoike I want to write a "dispatcher" for it because I want to hot reload it while development and transport states from server to browser.

https://twitter.com/undoZen/status/500573412461252610:

@spoike but I found it's very difficult to extend Store prototype, acctually its imposible.

[SimonDegraeve]

I am also interrested by HMR (hot module replacement) provided by webpack. Would be nice to have feedback from @undoZen.

[spoike]

Never heard of webpack until now. I've seen some small projects before that loads module packs form the server, but not really hotswapping like replacing code completely. Seems wickedly cool and I wouldn't mind listening in on a discussion for this and if there is anything we can do with reflux to make this simpler.

[SimonDegraeve]

You should definitely check react-hot-loader. I use it in my daily development and it's pretty awesome. Since I am new to Reflux I need more experience to see if it integrates well with this loader.

[undoZen]

I'm also new to these kind of stuff: react, flux, webpack HMR, etc. So much cool things to learn and experiment, very exciting.

Actually I didn't quite get how so called flux architecture works with dispatcher suggested by facebook or yahoo, until I find this project and read @spoike's blog on ghost.io, it all make sense about how actions and store should be working together for me.

I am also experimenting with webpack HMR recently, and I tried develop a personal project using reflux, react and react-hot-loader, but I found the stores won't work with hot reload because old version of stores still exists in memory since they are still listening to actions and be listened by other stores. Also I think the dehydrate/rehydrate feature from yahoo's dispatchr is very cool because that make server generation of static page of SPA react app possible.

So there are reasons to have a dispatcher. I'm starting to build one based on reflux, but found that the store prototype is difficult to extend.

Here's what I got now. You can refer to the test case to get how should it be working with re-definition of stores. It works but I have to monkey patch the listen method and alter the store definition now, if I can extend mixins of them it must be easier for me to implement this dispatcher module.

[undoZen]

I hope 0.1.8 could include this enhancement. I'll try to make a pull request late this week.

[spoike]

Sure. :-) I've tried but unfortunately managed to break a lot of tests in the process. So I have to defer to this until later or unless anyone else want to help out.

[spoike]

This is done by @krawaller among the pull requests for the work on 0.1.8, see #67.

What is left is to document the listenerMethods and the other mixins properly.