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orestis06:07:47

We gave up on local state, we now use it only for things like popup on/off.

orestis06:07:52

We are using atoms and subscription to the atoms. It’s not really global (it’s in a var in a namespace) but you don’t have to think about passing dispatch functions around.

orestis06:07:29

In practice it ends up being a stateful component that subscribed to state, and just renders a stateless one.

orestis06:07:15

After a few rounds of polish I will document reseda a bit more and make a release of sorts.

Aron09:07:31

That is another thing I could've done, to use clojurescript's own state management mechanism so I have access to easy debugging through the REPL. Even though I can manually extract react hook values through the react dev tools, it's not very convenient to do so repeatedly. Too much clicking.

lilactown15:07:39

interesting. we’ve done the opposite

lilactown15:07:54

we started with a large re-frame app, and are adopting helix and putting most things in local state

lilactown15:07:29

the only thing that doesn’t go in local state is routing (we already had a routing solution) and data from the backend

Aron15:07:48

and how do you inspect local state during development?

Aron15:07:53

are you using atoms?

lilactown15:07:35

using React DevTools to find the component and then logging them to the console for inspection of the CLJS data

lilactown15:07:50

or placing console.log’s inside the body of the component

Derek15:07:29

or tap> in shadow-cljs especially

Aron15:07:34

@dpassen1 how do I use tap> to investigate the contents of a react hook? I have never used tap> before, I am not even sure what it is, people talk about it like it's common wisdom

Derek15:07:52

Just any place where console.log works

Derek15:07:05

shadow will send that to its inspect tab

Aron15:07:13

@lilactown that's what I do, and (js-debugger) but it's extremely cumbersome and time consuming, I would not like to continue to debug like this.

Aron15:07:54

@dpassen1 but that's the thing, console log is not adequate for this, I need to see live data from clojures without having to manually decorate it with calls like (prn)

Aron15:07:04

What @lilactown says is very useful here because there is a top-down direction of selecting which components' which hook to inspect at any time when I have a breakpoint or anything. I am not aware that I can introduce new console.log calls when execution is suspended

Aron15:07:49

it's just that the manual labor of selecting the component and clicking around to open the tree and inspect the values is like the least favorite way of any activity I could imagine doing at a computer 🙂

lilactown15:07:30

at some point I’ll come up with a design I like for looking up state at the REPL

orestis09:07:53

ctrl-c ctrl-e 😛