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Inking

Light-weight reactive date management library based on ES2015 Proxy.

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Features

  • ❄️ Light-weight, only 3.3KB after gziped.
  • 🎯 Accurate, reactions are triggered only when they are needed.
  • 💡 TypeScript supported, exact type inference.
  • 🧩 Middleware supported, still working in progress.

Installation

$ yarn add inking

or

$ npm i inking

Motivation

Proxy is an awesome feature feature of ES2015. Base on it, we can do meta-programming and hijack object's native operations easier and more seamless. Inking is a state manage library based on Proxy and inspired by awesome MobX.

Concept

  • Just Like MobX, any used property of an observable object or class instance in autorun, reaction, when will be collected as dependency of the current reaction and trigger the reaction when it changed.
  • Although a number of test cases have been added, Inking is still in a prototype phase and needs inking-react and devtools to play with React.
  • Feel free to leave any thing in the issue.

Usage

Making things observable

observable

API:

observable(object)

EXAMPLE:

import { observable, autorun } from 'inking'

const counter = observable({ num: 0 })
const countLogger = observe(() => console.log(counter.num))

counter.num++
// $ 1
@observable

API:

@observable
class Model {
    ...
}

EXAMPLE:

import { observable } from 'inking'

@observable
class Model {
  count = 0
}

const m = new Model()
autorun(() => {
  console.log(m.count)
})

m.count++
// $ 1
object

Any plain object passed into observable will turn to be a observable value.

EXAMPLE:

import { observable } from 'inking'

const person = observable({
  // observable properties:
  name: 'John',
  age: 25,
  showAge: false,

  // computed property:
  get labelText() {
    return `${this.name} (age: ${this.age})`
  },

  setAge(age) {
    this.age = age
  }
})

autorun(() => console.log(person.labelText))

person.name = 'David'
// $: David (age: 25)
person.setAge(26)
// $: David (age: 26)
array

Any array passed into observable will turn to be a observable array, even nested.

EXAMPLE:

const todos = observable([{ title: 'a', completed: true }, { title: 'b', completed: false }])

autorun(() => {
  console.log(
    todos
      .filter(todo => !todo.completed)
      .map(todo => todo.title)
      .join('_')
  )
})

todos[0].completed = false
// $ a_b
todos[1].completed = true
// $ a
todos.push({ title: 'c', completed: false })
// $ a_c
todos.pop()
// $ a
todos.shift()
// $
  • map / set
  • boxed values

Reacting to observables

computed

Computed values are values that can be derived from the existing state or other computed values.

EXAMPLE:

import { observable, computed } from 'inking'

const obj = observable(['eat', 'sleep'])

const c1 = computed(() => {
  return obj.skills.join('_').toLowerCase()
})

autorun(() => {
  console.log(c1.get())
})

obj.skills.push('code')
// $ eat_sleep_code
obj.skills[2] = 'newCode'
// $ eat_sleep_newcode
obj.skills[2] = 'NEWCODE'
// will not print

Any getter property of in Class will turn to be a computed value automatically.

EXAMPLE:

import { observable, computed } from 'inking'

@observable
class Person {
  public firstName = 'a'
  public lastName = 'b'
  public arr: any[] = [1, 2, 3]
  public get fullName() {
    return `${this.firstName}_${this.lastName}`.toUpperCase()
  }
}

const p = new Person()

autorun(() => {
  console.log(p.fullName)
})

p.firstName = 'A'
// will not print
p.firstName = 'a'
// will not print
p.firstName = 'newA'
// $ NEWA_B
p.firstName = 'NEWA'
// will not print
autorun

autorun can be used in those cases where you want to create a reactive function that will never have observers itself.

EXAMPLE:

import { autorun } from 'inking'

// ⚠️ disposer is not implemented so far
const disposer = autorun(reaction => {
  /* do some stuff */
})
disposer()

// or

autorun(reaction => {
  /* do some stuff */
  reaction.dispose()
})
when `when` observes & runs the given `predicate` until it returns true. Once that happens, the given `effect` is executed and the autorunner is disposed. The function returns a disposer to cancel the autorunner prematurely.

EXAMPLE:

import { observable, when } from 'inking'

const skills = observable(['eat', 'sleep'])

when(
  () => skills.length >= 3,
  () => {
    console.log(skills[skills.length - 1])
  }
)

skills.push('code1')
// $ code1
skills.unshift('code2')
// $ code1
skills.pop()
// $ sleep
skills.shift()
// $ will not print
skills[0] = 'EAT'
// $ will not print
reaction

A variation on autorun that gives more fine grained control on which observables will be tracked.

EXAMPLE:

import { observable, reaction } from 'inking'

const skills = observable(['eat', 'sleep'])

reaction(
  () => obj.skills.length,
  () => {
    console.log(obj.skills[obj.skills.length - 1])
  }
)

skills.push('code1')
// $ code1
skills.unshift('code2')
// $ code1
skills.pop()
// $ sleep
skills.shift()
// $ sleep
skills[0] = 'EAT'
// $ will not print
  • @observer

Changing observables

action

Any application has actions. Actions are anything that modify the state. With MobX you can make it explicit in your code where your actions live by marking them. Actions help you to structure your code better.

EXAMPLE:

import { observable, action } from 'inking'

const skills = observable(['eat', 'sleep'])

autorun(() => {
  console.log(skills.[1])
})

const act = action(() => {
  obj.skills.unshift('i1')
  obj.skills.unshift('i2')
  obj.skills.pop()
  obj.skills.splice(0, 2, 'i3')
  obj.skills.shift()
})

act()
// $ undefined
  • async actions & flows
  • Object api

Utility functions

toJS

Return raw value from observable value.

EXAMPLE:

// a test case of Jest
test('basic toJS', () => {
  const obj = observable(getPlainObj())
  const skills = obj.skills
  expect(toJS(obj)).toEqual(getPlainObj())
  expect(toJS(skills)).toEqual(getPlainObj().skills)
})
  • extendObservable
  • createAtom
  • intercept
  • observe

Others

  • Devtools

Platform support

  • Node: 6+
  • Chrome: 49+
  • Firefox: 38+
  • Safari: 10+
  • Edge: 12+
  • Opera: 36+
  • Internet Explorer: 🚫

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