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Re:React.js in Real Life at Codecademy by natmaster on Saturday February 14, 2015 @01:23AM (#9048920)
This is why they gave the presentation on Flux, which is architecturally how Facebook solves this problem.

Basically the first principal you must learn is to find the lowest common ancestor to store state. (http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2013/11/05/thinking-in-...) After realizing this the immediate thing people do is pass call backs through children so grandchildren's actions can communicate with where the state is. This leaks through all the components however, which is why Flux separates actions out into something that all the components have access to.

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Re:React.js in Real Life at Codecademy by insin on Saturday February 14, 2015 @05:00AM (#9049249)
Worth pointing out that you don't need a full Flux implementation to get the benefits of going sideways to an action module:

https://github.com/ryanflorence/react-training/blob/gh-pages...

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