#Lua-Love-React-Redux#

A very basic example project, with in-development react.js/redux.js style adaptations for Lua. All wrapped around the Love game framework, which is used for rendering.

Developed without ever really looking at the react source code, though it does follow the redux source more closely, as I had less experience as a user of redux.

This is intended as a personal project, and I will probably diverge from the react/redux approach I've currently taken to explore other solutions.

React - https://github.com/facebook/react

Redux - https://github.com/reactjs/redux

##To build##

Install love, and ensure you can execute the love command https://love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page

Run love ./ from the src folder

##Differences to React##

• API is different
• No JSX!
• No component state
• No context
• No virtual dom
• No classes as components, only pure functions as components
• No propType validation
• Potential bugs in rendering when swapping siblings around
• No tests yet

##Differences to Redux##

• Missing a lot of the nice functions like combineReducers
• No middleware
• Not yet tackled any form of immutability in Lua tables

##Project structure##

###./src/components###

This folder contains all of the 'react' style components. The love folder contains components that are meant to be the leaf nodes in the rendering tree, and produce the outputted state for rendering.

This folder could be split up further.

###./src/constants###

Doesn't need too much explanation - a place to define constants and configuration data

defaultState.lua is the default state for the store.

###./src/helpers###

A place for helper functions. At the moment this contains loopHandlers.lua a small utility for registering multiple handlers for love's load, update, draw callback functions.

###./src/reducers###

Redux reducers

###./src/rendering###

declare.lua contains the declare function, which is similar to perhaps React.createClass. At the moment all it does is act as a higher order function to provide property validation in the future, so it's completely optional.

draw.lua contains the draw function, which I guess would be similar to ReactDOM.render, except there's no need to mount since there is no DOM.

The primitives folder contains logic for rendering each of the things in the ./src/components/love folder

###./src/store###

createStore.lua contains the createStore function, which is used for, er, creating a store!

connect.lua contains the connect function for connecting the store to components