React Flux: what's the point of actions?

Question

In Flux, what is the point of using actions, instead of just letting the component publish directly to the dispatcher? What is it that I can't do without actions?

Fugleman

There's nothing you couldn't do without actions, however, it's simply a pattern they've established to encourage a particular style of programming. facebook.github.io/flux/docs/overview.html Some might suggest they're more testable, but again, there are other ways of doing that. – Portulaca

They form the API of the application. Collecting them in one place makes it easy to reuse them in different parts of the application. – Liatris

Answer 1

The action creators decouple the component from the dispatcher. You could replace the dispatcher and related pieces with something else and the components would not need to change.

Unawares