Update function with messages (feature request?)

[juliusdeblaaij]

Hello, thank you for this sleak library! I was wondering about the possibility of an Update function. I know about SetState, but I feel that using SetState will spread out my business logic through my UI.

I was wondering if you had any thoughts on an Update function, which given the current State, a message ("set name") and some optional data (like a name string) Would:

• perform some logic based on the type of message,
• and if deemed valid would then set the state with the new name value.
• the view will use the new State to render, optionally refreshing the whole view with the SetState boolean parameter. (If deemed necessary for the type of message)

I'm interested to get to know your outlook. Not even necessarily as a feature request, since it might be too opinionated, but maybe just implementation guidance.

Kind regards,

Julius

[adospace]

Hi, MauiReactor by design doesn't provide a full state manager (most like Flutter or React don't).

Any developer or team can choose the state manager that best fits its application requirements (one could also opt not to use a state manager at all). From your description, it seems you are pointing to a Flux-like state manager. For that, you could take a look at Fluxor or Memento. This is a possible integration of Flux for MauiReactor: https://gist.github.com/adospace/cbede42c410c642dbdbcafe9ece5e90b

Rearch is another full-state manager inspired by Riverpod that has native integration with MauiReactor https://github.com/nabond251/rearch-dotnet

Of course, you can be also completely free to add your state manager on top of MauiReactor.

Not sure about your contest but maybe you could just use injected services to handle the logic that are also easier to test.

[juliusdeblaaij]

Thank you for your clear answer. If I take a page out of the React book, there are so many different appraoches to state... so the flexibility of MauiReactor is perfect. No need for this enhancement :)