# alt-store

**Repository Path**: mirrors_iansinnott/alt-store

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: alt-store
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-16

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# React + Webpack Boilerplate

## What is this?

A flux-based online store. Built using the [Alt][alt] Flux library. Built to test out [Alt][alt] as a flux implementation.

[alt]: http://alt.js.org

Not to be confused with a Flux Store, which is Flux's answer to the model / collection aspect of MVC.

## Setup

First you will need to make sure you have the database up and running. First, run mongod using the local `db/` directory. Gulp is already set up to do this, so just run `gulp mongod`. Now either use something like Robomongo or simply create the db from the command line.


```
$ mongo
```

Then within Mongo use the `use` command to create the database:

```
> use flux-store
```

After you have the db create in your local `db/` folder you can run the app for development like so:

```
$ npm install
$ gulp
```

## Thoughts on Alt

Alt does some weird shit where you must call `this.actions.<method-name>` order to access other actions defined on an action creators prototype. This is super unintuitive and not obvious. Pretty lame, but other than this I quite like Alt so far. For an example, see `fetchItems` in `client/actions/ItemActions.js`.

I never did end up looking at the code hard enough to find out what they are doing behind the scenes. Here's [the code in question][code].

[code]: https://github.com/goatslacker/alt/blob/1d32ad97693434bcda9677c0b64d07d724bc6094/src/alt/index.js#L100-148