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Upgrade Guide

0.4.x to 1.x

NavLink's default activeClass prop value removed

Previously all NavLinks listened the RouteStore for changes in order to update their active style/class/element. In many cases none of these properties were used, which meant the component was listening unnecessarily. Now NavLink will only listen if activeClass, activeStyle, or activeElement are explicitly passed in to the component.

Code that relied on the active class to be automatically added to NavLink components will be required to explicitly use <NavLink activeClass='active'> in order for the link to listen for updates.

route.navigate no longer exists

Code that relied on route.navigate will need to access the navigate object from RouteStore.getCurrentNavigate() . The ownership of these two objects have been inverted to reflect that a navigation results in a route being matched rather than the inverse. This allows us to optimize NavLink by making navigate and route immutable and recognize that a navigate may be triggered, but the route doesn't necessarily change.

NAVIGATE_SUCCESS and NAVIGATE_FAILURE payload changes

Stores that listen to NAVIGATE_SUCCESS and NAVIGATE_FAILURE will receive a different payload. These payloads have been unified across the events. This allows the RouteStore to correlate the events with NAVIGATE_START using a transaction identifier with the changes to the route object.

NAVIGATE_SUCCESS

Previously received the route object, but now receives the navigate object which contains navigate.route.

NAVIGATE_FAILURE

Previously received an error object, but now receives the navigate object which contains navigate.error.

0.3.x to 0.4.x

The RouteStores currentRoute is no longer an immutable.js object. Instead, the route is a plain object that follows the same structure as defined in the routes. Any usage of route.get('foo') will no longer work and should switch to using route.foo.

0.2.x to 0.3.x

Upgrade React to 0.14. See https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/09/10/react-v0.14-rc1.html

0.1.x to 0.2.x

Upgrade Fluxible to 0.5.x.

flux-router-component to fluxible-router

Be sure to read the quick start doc. Here we'll be covering the logistical aspects of updating existing apps.

No more mixins

The mixin we had in flux-router-component has been retired in favor of higher-order components. Once a component is wrapped via handleRoute (or handleHistory which internally uses handleRoute) it will be passed props when navigation actions are triggered. See the handleRoute docs for details.

Update NavLink imports

If you have imports for the NavLink from flux-router-component you'll need to update them to import from fluxible-router.

var NavLink = require('flux-router-component').NavLink;

Should now be:

var NavLink = require('fluxible-router').NavLink;

Routes become immutable

When a route is matched and passed to your component it is converted into an immutable object. It's important to realize you'll need to use the get methods to access properties instead of accessing them with regular . syntax.

this.props.currentRoute.url

Should now be:

this.props.currentRoute.get('url')

This also affects actions that are called from navigateAction. They will also receive a payload that is the immutable route object:

module.exports = function myAction(context, payload, callback) {
    var params = payload.get('params');
    //...
}

Action name changes

The following action names were changed:

  • CHANGE_ROUTE_START -> NAVIGATE_START
  • CHANGE_ROUTE_SUCCESS -> NAVIGATE_SUCCESS
  • CHANGE_ROUTE_FAILURE -> NAVIGATE_FAILURE

Stores

Previously, keeping track of navigation and route changes was done by implementing an ApplicationStore or a PageStore yourself. We experimented with two approaches.

Our flux-examples repo had an ApplicationStore. You can see the diff when we upgraded to fluxible-router here: https://github.com/yahoo/flux-examples/pull/119/files

Our doc site fluxible.io was using a PageStore, which is more similar to the RouteStore we have in fluxible-router today. You can see our diff of our upgrade to fluxible-router here: https://github.com/yahoo/fluxible.io/pull/120/files

In general fluxible-router ships a RouteStore you should be using instead of rolling your own.

Rendering the right component

Previously we experimented with two approaches to choosing which component to render in our application component based on the current route.

Our flux-examples repo had a switch statement that chose the component based on the current route. You can see the diff when we upgraded to fluxible-router here: https://github.com/yahoo/flux-examples/pull/119/files

Our doc site fluxible.io was using a component property on the route config, which contained the reference to the component that should be rendered for that route. This is similar to the handler property we recommend using with fluxible-router today. You can see our diff of our upgrade to fluxible-router here: https://github.com/yahoo/fluxible.io/pull/120/files

In general you'll see us using a handler property with our route config that contains the component we want to render for that route. But you could use any property name you like. There's nothing magical happening internally with regards to components, it's just another property that get's passed around with the route.

Route config

There are a few properties for a route that are important for fluxible-router; method, path, pageTitle (optional) and action (optional). Any other properties you define are simply passed along with your route object.

pageTitle is a newer addition to a route's config which relives you from having to update document.title yourself.