[jlongster]

The dispatcher really is just a simple pub/sub mechanism.

The thing that Flux helps define is how to manage data. We don't have models, but it gives you a coarse structure for your data, with which you can do stuff like data dependencies (derived data), only rerendering part of your UI when parts of your data changes, etc.

How events are used within all of this could certainly be re-purposed with Rx (I've repurposed it as channels myself). You are not wrong, but flux is a bit more formalized with a few more things.

[megaman821]

That makes sense. Just all the code samples I have seen of Flux have most the lines of code dedicated to wiring up events instead of the more interesting things you have mentioned. I think just using either Rx or CSP would make the concepts of Flux clearer.

[jlongster]

I bet if you dug around the internet there are some good examples of that. I've been meaning to show more examples with js-csp, but Rx is pretty popular so I bet there's some examples with that.

I bet many of the Flux implementations use a simple event system because that's the lowest common denominator; we're all pretty used to wrapping that in whatever we like anyway. But it does make a little more confusing to look through.