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Time travelling concept with reducey stores and state atoms inspired by https://gist.github.com/threepointone/43f16389fd96561a8b0b#comment-1447275
/**
* Stores are just seed + reduce function.
* Notice they are plain objects and don't own the state.
*/
const countUpStore = {
seed: {
counter: 0
},
reduce(state, action) {
switch (action.type) {
case 'increment':
return { ...state, counter: state.counter + 1 };
case 'decrement':
return { ...state, counter: state.counter - 1 };
default:
return state;
}
}
};
const countDownStore = {
seed: {
counter: 10
},
reduce(state, action) {
// Never mind that I'm doing the opposite of what action says: I'm just
// showing that stores may handle actions differently.
switch (action.type) {
case 'increment':
return { ...state, counter: state.counter - 1 };
case 'decrement':
return { ...state, counter: state.counter + 1 };
default:
return state;
}
}
};
/**
* Dispatcher receives an array of stores and manages a global state atom,
* giving each store a slice of that atom using store index as an ID.
*
* It seeds the atom with the initial values and returns a dispatch function
* that, when called with an action, will gather the new reduced state and
* update the cursor with it.
*/
function createDispatcher(cursor, stores) {
// Create the seed atom
const seedAtom = stores.map(s => s.seed);
cursor.set(seedAtom);
return function dispatch(action) {
// Create an atom with the next state of stores
const prevAtom = cursor.get();
const nextAtom = stores.map((store, id) =>
store.reduce(prevAtom[id], action)
);
cursor.set(nextAtom);
}
}
/**
* Creates a cursor that holds the value for the state atom.
*/
function createCursor() {
let atom = null;
return {
get: () => atom,
set: (nextAtom) => atom = nextAtom
};
}
/**
* A cursor middleware that lets consumer observe() mutations to individual stores.
*/
function makeObservable(cursor) {
const observers = [];
/**
* Observes a store by its ID.
* Returns a real observable!
*/
function observe(id) {
if (!observers[id]) {
observers[id] = [];
}
function subscribe(observer) {
// Immediately fire the current value (Zalgo!)
const atom = cursor.get();
observer.onNext(atom[id]);
// Subscribe
const storeObservers = observers[id];
storeObservers.push(observer);
function dispose() {
// Unsubscribe
const index = storeObservers.indexOf(observer);
if (index > -1) {
storeObservers.splice(index, 1);
}
}
return { dispose };
}
return { subscribe };
}
const wrapper = {
get() {
return cursor.get();
},
set(nextAtom) {
const prevAtom = cursor.get();
cursor.set(nextAtom);
// Walk through each store's slice
for (let id = 0; id < nextAtom.length; id++) {
if (!observers[id] || !observers[id].length) {
continue;
}
// Notify the observers if state is referentially unequal
if (!prevAtom || prevAtom[id] !== nextAtom[id]) {
observers[id].forEach(o =>
o.onNext(nextAtom[id])
);
}
}
}
};
return { observe, cursor: wrapper };
}
it('whatever', () => {
let cursor = createCursor();
let observe;
// Wrap cursor into the observation middleware:
({ cursor, observe } = makeObservable(cursor));
// Pass stores to dispatcher
const dispatch = createDispatcher(cursor, [countDownStore, countUpStore]);
// We can now subscribe to store's individual updates without
// any involvement from the stores themselves:
const subscription = observe(1/* index in store array */).subscribe({
onNext(countUpState) {
console.log('countup store state', countUpState);
}
});
// Dispatch actions:
dispatch({ type: 'increment' });
dispatch({ type: 'increment' });
dispatch({ type: 'increment' });
dispatch({ type: 'decrement' });
// Unsubscription:
subscription.dispose();
dispatch({ type: 'decrement' }); // Silent
// The *really* interesting part is left as an exercise to the reader:
//
//
// let cursor = createCursor();
// let observe, peekAtPast, lock, unlock;
// ({ cursor, peekAtPast } = makePeekable(cursor)); // NEW! records values
// ({ cursor, lock, unlock } = makeLockable(cursor)); // NEW! ignores current atom and forces a constant
// ({ cursor, observe } = makeObservable(cursor)); // observe at the end of the chain
//
//
// Some boring stuff:
//
//
// const dispatch = createDispatcher(cursor, [countDownStore, countUpStore]);
// const subscription = observe(1/* index in store array */).subscribe({
// onNext(countUpState) {
// console.log('countup store state', countUpState);
// }
// });
// dispatch({ type: 'increment' });
// dispatch({ type: 'increment' });
// dispatch({ type: 'increment' });
// dispatch({ type: 'increment' });
//
//
// ... now comes the interesting part.
//
//
// const pastAtom = peekAtPast(2); // NEW! reaches back in time
// lock(pastAtom); // NEW! forces change handlers to always receive pastAtom instead of current atom
// ...
// unlock(); // NEW! switches to emit the current atom again
//
//
// Do you see? Because makeObservable() is last in chain, it will receive
// the values from makeLockable(). We can make a time travel interface on top of it,
// and components will receive past values as you drag a slider, but stores have
// *zero* knowledge of it and need no special time travelling logic.
})
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gaearon commented Jun 3, 2015

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