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biff 2024-04-24
Gabe Jensen 2024-04-24T12:57:58.777069Z
Hello! I’m pretty new to the clojure web dev landscape, and biff is looking super promising! I was wondering how to properly reuse clojure functions to return common components, but not have to do “prop drilling” (eg passing data through several nested functions to a leaf level function that is reused everywhere). I come from react.js land and there’s the Context api that helps avoid a lot of the extra boilerplate that comes with prop drilling, but was wondering if I am missing some capability of biff or hiccup Any help would be appreciated!
welcome! I'm not super familiar with the context api other than having done a bit of googling, but I think the equivalent would be adding stuff to Biff's ctx map. ctx is generally passed down to all/most components anyway, so if you assoc things on to it (possibly with a namespace keyword to keep things organized) you typically won't have to do much extra work to then makes sure your leaf components have access to ctx.
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a more principled but heavier approach would be to use https://pathom3.wsscode.com/ . your components can all become pathom resolvers and then query for what they need. pathom can take a bit to learn though and may be overkill in some cases. I'm planning to experiment with it + biff soon.
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