Author name: Scott

Sorry but all the explanations this far have been bad so I thought I’d simplify it.

In plain Redux without connect you need to manually bind up your store.dispatch to your components as well as subscribe to updates so you can call store.getState(). But your components are suppose to be dumb.

const store = createStore(reducer);

const render = () => ReactDOM.render( // turns ReactDOM.render into executable function
  <Counter
    value={store.getState()}
    onIncrement={() => store.dispatch({ type: 'INCREMENT' })}
    onDecrement={() => store.dispatch({ type: 'DECREMENT' })}
  />,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

render();
store.subscribe(render);

So rather than manually linking dispatch and subscribing to updates we create two mapping functions, both of which bind the dispatch and the state to props of the ‘connected component’. So in this case all updates to this.store.getState().value are mapped to this.props.value and rather than mapping dispatch directly, we just wrap it and pass it in as a prop.

// create component
class ContainerComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
    <PresentationComponent 
      value={this.props.value}
      onIncrement={this.props.onIncrement} 
      onDecrement={this.props.onDecrement} />
  }
}
// create state mapping
function mapStateToProps(state) {
  return { 
    value: state.value
  };
}

// add dispatch mapper 
function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) { 
  return { 
    onIncrement: function() { 
      dispatch({type:'INCREMENT'}); 
    }, 
    onDecrement : function() { 
      dispatch({type:'DECREMENT'}); 
    } 
  }; 
} 
export default connect(mapStateToProps,mapDispatchToProps)(ContainerComponent);

Now when you call your components you can simply call the value passed in like so.

export default class PresentationComponent extends React.Component {
render() {
    return (      
        <div>
<span>{this.props.value}</span>
<button onClick={this.props.onIncrement}>Increment</button>
<button onClick={this.props.onDecrement}>Decrement</button>
        </div>
    );
  }
}

For more information you can checkout both of these github projects for reference.

• https://github.com/scottpreston/react-starter
• https://github.com/scottpreston/react-app
• https://github.com/scottpreston/hello-redux

• If I wanted to work with compiled languages, I would have stuck with Java.
• If I wanted complicated build systems, I would have stuck with Java.
• If I wanted complicated all encompassing frameworks, I would have stuck with Java.
• If I wanted complicated unreadable error messages, I would have stuck with Java.
• If I wanted to run server side code (Node) in my browser, I would have stuck with Java.

Something needs to happen to fix JavaScript making it more and more like Java is not the answer. Or is it time to move to another language with less ceremony???

If you’ve ever seen this error:

MinOZW: error while loading shared libraries: libopenzwave.so.1.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

or 

Error: libopenzwave.so.1.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Just type this and it did the trick for me (Ubuntu 14.04).

sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib64

I’ve been searching for a NodeJS server for web sockets, but socket.io, required both the client and server to be run from within node. I wanted to connect to this server via a normal web page using WebSockets from HTML5. Here’s some code, hope you find it useful:

https://github.com/scottpreston/examples

Server Code

var WebSocketServer = require('ws').Server;
var wss = new WebSocketServer({port: 3000});

wss.on('connection', function (ws) {
    ws.on('message', function (message) {
        console.log('received: %s', message);
        ws.send(message + "!!!!");
    });
});

Client Code

    var websocket = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:3000');
    websocket.onopen = function (evt) {
        websocket.send("This Rocks!");
        websocket.close();
     }
    websocket.onmessage = function (evt) {
        console.log('RESPONSE: ' + evt.data);
    };

I was wondering how RequireJS and AMD worked. So I created this snip. It might not be correct but it worked for me.

load('foo', function (foo){
        var f = new foo();
        f.a = 100;
        f.b = 200;
        alert(f.add());
    });

    function define(name, callback) {
        modules[name] = callback;
    }

    function load(file, callback) {
        var script = document.createElement('script');
        script.type = 'text/javascript';
        script.async = true;
        script.src = file + ".js";
        (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(script);
        script.onload = function() {
            callback(modules[file]);
        };
    }

    var modules = [];

// foo.js
define("foo", function() {
    var foo = {
        a: 1,
        b: 2,
        add: function () {
            return this.a + this.b;
        }
    };
    return foo;
});