19 replies

1. Zach Leatherman 27 min later

   anyway reactivity is ORM for the front-end send toot

   1. amos 31 min later

      @zachleat woof, brave

      1. Zach Leatherman 39 min later

         @fasterthanlime hi, I’m not smart enough to know better 🫠

         1. amos 46 min later

            @zachleat just boosted you, let’s find out how hot this take is

            1. Zach Leatherman 48 min later

               @fasterthanlime haha—for science!

   2. elle mundy 32 min later

      @zachleat wish more people knew this

      1. Zach Leatherman 37 min later

         @exchgr well I only just realized it today so 😅

         also wait how can you say this without retooting 😅

         1. elle mundy 1 hr later

            @zachleat done :)

            1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

               @exchgr I am truly an influencer now

   3. Andy Gocke 1 hr later

      @zachleat Is that good or bad?

      1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

         @agocke both! neither! it depends!

   4. Raphael 2 hr later

      @zachleat @fasterthanlime leaky abstraction that still abstracts well over 95% of cases… makes sense!

2. westbrook 1 hr later

   @zachleat Ah, yes, dependency-free utilities... like https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-negative 🤪 They're the best!

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @westbrook not like this

      not like this

   2. Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) 3 hr later

      @westbrook @zachleat

3. James A Rosen 1 hr later

   @zachleat I found Preact’s signals to be *very* difficult to use for two reasons:

   1. It’s hard to mix with reactive code, so it’s hard to gradually migrate an existing code base

   2. There’s no destructor / unwatch hook. That means I can’t build complex classes out of signals and treat them like signals. That, in turn, makes it hard to mix signals with imperative APIs like graphs.

4. Mark Malstrom 2 hr later

   @zachleat Vue’s reactivity package is very similar! https://github.com/vuejs/core/tree/main/packages/reactivity

   I just wish Angular’s signals (my favorite implementation) could be used independent of Angular 😞

5. Nicky McCurdy 3 hr later

   @zachleat Please note that Preact Signals are not supported by React. If you want to try them with a similar framework, migrate to Preact.

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

      @nickm you had me at “migrate to Preact.”