Renaming viewAlert to showAlert.

src/containers/alerts.jsx

 import {connect} from 'react-redux';
 
 import {
-    viewAlert
+    showAlert
 } from '../reducers/alerts';
 
 import AlertsComponent from '../components/alerts/alerts.jsx';
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const mapStateToProps = state => ({
 });
 
 const mapDispatchToProps = dispatch => ({
-    onViewAlert: () => dispatch(viewAlert())
+    onShowAlert: () => dispatch(showAlert())
 });
 
 export default connect(

src/lib/vm-listener-hoc.jsx

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {updateTargets} from '../reducers/targets';
 import {updateBlockDrag} from '../reducers/block-drag';
 import {updateMonitors} from '../reducers/monitors';
 import {setRunningState, setTurboState} from '../reducers/vm-status';
-import {viewAlert} from '../reducers/alerts';
+import {showAlert} from '../reducers/alerts';
 
 /*
  * Higher Order Component to manage events emitted by the VM
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ const vmListenerHOC = function (WrappedComponent) {
             this.props.vm.on('TURBO_MODE_OFF', this.props.onTurboModeOff);
             this.props.vm.on('PROJECT_RUN_START', this.props.onProjectRunStart);
             this.props.vm.on('PROJECT_RUN_STOP', this.props.onProjectRunStop);
-            this.props.vm.on('PERIPHERAL_CONNECTED', this.props.onViewAlert);
+            this.props.vm.on('PERIPHERAL_CONNECTED', this.props.onShowAlert);
         }
         componentDidMount () {
             if (this.props.attachKeyboardEvents) {
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ const vmListenerHOC = function (WrappedComponent) {
                 onProjectRunStop,
                 onTurboModeOff,
                 onTurboModeOn,
-                onViewAlert,
+                onShowAlert,
                 /* eslint-enable no-unused-vars */
                 ...props
             } = this.props;
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ const vmListenerHOC = function (WrappedComponent) {
         onProjectRunStop: () => dispatch(setRunningState(false)),
         onTurboModeOn: () => dispatch(setTurboState(true)),
         onTurboModeOff: () => dispatch(setTurboState(false)),
-        onViewAlert: () => dispatch(viewAlert())
+        onShowAlert: () => dispatch(showAlert())
     });
     return connect(
         mapStateToProps,

src/reducers/alerts.js

 const CLOSE_ALERT = 'scratch-gui/alerts/CLOSE_ALERT';
-const VIEW_ALERT = 'scratch-gui/alerts/VIEW_ALERT';
+const SHOW_ALERT = 'scratch-gui/alerts/SHOW_ALERT';
 
 const initialState = {
     message: 'testing alerts!!',
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const initialState = {
 const reducer = function (state, action) {
     if (typeof state === 'undefined') state = initialState;
     switch (action.type) {
-    case VIEW_ALERT:
+    case SHOW_ALERT:
         return Object.assign({}, state, {
             visible: true
         });
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ const closeAlert = function () {
     return {type: CLOSE_ALERT};
 };
 
-const viewAlert = function () {
-    return {type: VIEW_ALERT};
+const showAlert = function () {
+    return {type: SHOW_ALERT};
 };
 
 export {
     reducer as default,
     initialState as alertsInitialState,
     closeAlert,
-    viewAlert
+    showAlert
 };