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Redux is an implementation of Flux.

I don't use Redux, but the original Facebook engineering announcement videos helped me understand React and Flux tremendously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkdrAPrdcw

If you're talking about Redux specifically -- I agree with you. I think it's ugly and confusing.

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Redux is not an implementation of Flux. These two blog posts explain the main differences: https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab2... https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-intro-to-redux-3afb77550...

I stand corrected. Thanks for these posts!

Redux absolutely _is_ an implementation of the Flux Architecture. I've described it as "Flux taken to its logical conclusion". If you read my post "The Tao of Redux, Part 1 - Implementation and Intent" [0], I quote several comments and pieces of early documentation that back up Redux's Flux heritage. Redux inherited the idea of plain action objects with a `type` field, action creators, and the concept of "dispatching"

[0] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-tao...

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