# staltz/flux-challenge

A frontend challenge to test UI architectures and solutions

Repository: https://github.com/staltz/flux-challenge
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flux-challenge
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-04-30T20:21:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3984, "days_push": 1951, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1642, forks 204 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:15.450329+00:00)

## What it is
Flux Challenge is a frontend coding challenge that asks developers to build a dashboard UI for a Star Wars 'Sith Database' with live WebSocket updates, scrollable data loading, and request cancellation. It serves as a benchmark for comparing different UI architectures and state management solutions like Flux, Redux, RxJS, and Cycle.js.

## Use cases
- compare frontend state management architectures on a real problem
- practice handling websocket-driven UI updates
- learn to cancel obsolete HTTP requests on scroll
- test reactive programming libraries like RxJS or Cycle.js
- benchmark Redux vs Flux vs Elm-style architectures
- find a hands-on exercise for async UI state challenges

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready dashboard application
- you want a maintained library or framework to depend on
- you need a tutorial with step-by-step guidance rather than a challenge spec

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: frontend-framework, state-management, websocket, http-client, ui-components
- domain: frontend, web-development, developer-tools, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: coding-challenge, flux-architecture, ui-architecture, reactive-programming, star-wars, frontend-exercise, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- staltz/flux-challenge (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:15.450329+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:46:21.107091+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/staltz/flux-challenge (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:15.450329+00:00, sha eb8e5255424d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.