solid-model

Automatic view model for solid-js

Objective

This package aims to provide reactive objects, is similiar to createMutable() but with a few differences

• Seamless: It works with classes and, hopefully, any kind of JavaScript object in a completely transparent way
• Customizable: Greater control over the interactions with the proxy
• Scoped: It doesn't automatically apply reactivity to children of reactive objects

Standard ProxyHandlers

The module provides a set of ProxyHandlers out-of-the-box that can be used to customize the reactive behaviours of objects. These handlers are available through inheritable classes, since the default ones haven't got any instance field you can use their prototype directly. Any instance field defined on handlers will be defined on their proxy, especially private fields. Each handler also provides static methods for introspection, these works on both the raw object and its reactive proxy. For example

import { MemoHandler } from "solid-model";

const raw = { /* ... */ };
const reactive = MemoHandler.create(raw);

BaseHandler

• is() (static): Tells whether the provided object is reactive
• getProxy() (static): Gets the proxy of a reactive object
• setProxy() (static): Sets the proxy of a reactive object
• getRaw() (static): Gets the raw version of a reactive object
• create(): Creates a proxy for an object using the current handler

ReactiveHandler

Handler that makes an Atom under the hood for each field of its target

• getStore() (static): Gets the object (Of type Store) that contains the Atoms for each reactive property

It also provides a few custom overridable traps

• createAtom(): Method that's responsible for creating the Atom for each property which hasn't got neither a getter nor a setter
• getComparator(): Method that creates a comparison function for the Signal of each new Atom created by the current handler
• getPropertyTag(): Method that generates a recognizable name for the Signal of each Atom to help debugging

DisposableHandler

Handler that provides a general-purpose DisposableOwner

• getOwner() (static): Gets the DisposableOwner that handles the reactive resources of the current object

MemoHandler

Handler that inherits the behaviours of ReactiveHandler and memoizes every getter of its target

• createMemo(): Method that's responsible for creating the ReadOnlyAtom for each getter property

Utility

The module also exposes some of its internal utilities

• nameOf(): Utility function that powers Atom.prop()

Store

The type of the output of ReactiveHandler.getStore()

DisposableOwner

Explicitly disposable version of a "solid-js" Owner

ReadOnlyAtom

Represents a POSSIBLY read-only reactive state

• trySet(): Allows you to try to set the value of a ReadOnlyAtom in the hope that it's actually a normal Atom
• update(): Like the Setter overload of a Signal that takes a function with the previous value

Atom

Customizable and simplified wrappers for reactive states.

• (Everything ReadOnlyAtom has)
• convert(): Creates a new Atom that applies a conversion to the current one
• unwrap() (static): Allows the use of an Accessor of an Atom without having to call the Accessor each time
• from() (static): Creates an Atom based on a Signal
• prop() (static): Creates an Atom based on an object property
• source() (static): Similiar to Atom.unwrap(), but if the Accessor doesn't return anything it automatically creates an internal Signal in which to store the value