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Author SHA1 Message Date
Aria Minaei
12b3f477bc Unify Derivation and Prism (1/n) 2023-01-04 20:49:43 +01:00
Aria Minaei
5c1aa1cd50 Remove Derivation.changesWithoutValues()
And replace it with `Derivation.onStale()`
2023-01-04 20:49:43 +01:00
Aria Minaei
667f9d4fa2 Massive perf-gain in @theatre/react
Remove cold derivation reads

Prior to this commit, the first render of every `useDerivation()` resulted in a cold read of its inner derivation. Cold reads are predictably slow. The reason we'd run cold reads was to comply with react's rule of not running side-effects during render. (Turning a derivation hot is _technically_ a side-effect).

However, now that users are animating scenes with hundreds of objects in the same sequence, the lag started to be noticable.

This commit changes `useDerivation()` so that it turns its derivation hot before rendering them.

Freshen derivations before render

Previously in order to avoid the zombie child problem (https://kaihao.dev/posts/stale-props-and-zombie-children-in-redux) we deferred freshening the derivations to the render phase of components. This meant that if a derivation's dependencies changed, `useDerivation()` would schedule a re-render, regardless of whether that change actually affected the derivation's value. Here is a contrived example:

```
const num = new Box(1)
const isPositiveD = prism(() => num.derivation.getValue() >= 0)

const Comp = () => {
  return <div>{useDerivation(isPositiveD)}</div>
}

num.set(2) // would cause Comp to re-render- even though 1 is still a positive number
```

We now avoid this problem by freshening the derivation (i.e. calling `der.getValue()`) inside `runQueue()`, and then only causing a re-render if the derivation's value is actually changed.

This still avoids the zombie-child problem because `runQueue` reads the derivations in-order of their position in  the mounting tree.

On the off-chance that one of them still turns out to be a zombile child, `runQueue` will defer that particular `useDerivation()` to be read inside a normal react render phase.
2022-07-12 13:34:29 +02:00
Cole Lawrence
f1844952ea
Add initial tools for managing derivations and React compatibility (#202)
Co-authored-by: Cole Lawrence <cole@colelawrence.com>
Co-authored-by: Elliot <key.draw@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Aria <aria.minaei@gmail.com>
2022-06-09 19:12:40 +02:00
Aria Minaei
9d767a08ac Hotfix for the aggregate tracks not getting updated on changes
Co-authored-by: Fülöp <fulopkovacs@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-05-30 16:43:01 +02:00
Fulop
949fe935cb
Improve the documentation of dataverse (#116) 2022-04-06 17:28:08 +02:00
Andrew Prifer
eff1f158bc Provide high level description for the 4 packages 2022-01-19 15:55:36 +01:00
Aria Minaei
69c6aa9af2 Lint rule changes 2021-10-02 14:12:25 +02:00
Aria Minaei
1452c9ebbe Renamed @theatre/dataverse-react to @theatre/react 2021-09-05 23:07:02 +02:00
Aria Minaei
c72647c1e5 Update package.json files 2021-06-18 19:54:35 +02:00
Aria Minaei
4a7303f40a Initial OSS commit 2021-06-18 13:05:06 +02:00