Flux/Alt data dependency, how to handle elegantly and idiomatically

Question

I\'m using alt as my flux implementation for a project and am having trouble wrapping my head around the best way to handle loading stores for two related entities. I\'m usi

Answer 1

The best solution I've come with with so far (and the one that the examples seem to follow) is to add a "jobsFetched" action to my jobs actions and to dispatch it when the data arrives.

var jobActions = require('../actions/Jobs');
var ConversationActions = require('../actions/Conversations');

class JobStore {
    constructor() {
        this.bindListeners({
            handlefullUpdate: jobActions.success...
        });...

    }

    handlefullUpdate(jobs) {
        this.jobs = jobs;
        ConversationActions.jobsFetched.defer(jobs);
    }
}


class ConversationStore {
    constructor() {
        this.bindListeners({
            handleJobUpdate: jobActions.jobsFetched...
        });...

    }

    handleJobUpdate(jobs) {

        /*Now kick off some other action like "fetchConversations" 
          or do the ajax call right here?*/

    }

}

This eliminates the problem of the jobs store having to hold a reference to all its dependent objects, But I still have to call an action from inside my store, and I have to introduce jobsFetched action which sets up the ConversationStore to fetch it's data. So it seems like I can't use a source for my conversations.

Can anyone do better?