Message from JavaScript discussions
June 2017
— So the immediate mode component accepts a parameter of where the mouse is from the event handler, does some conditional based off what object that is in it's own state (not from presentation state) and then highlights or ignores the object based on the result, all without interacting with the datastore but while still using it's state. in "normal" Flux you would pass that parameter all the way through the datastore
So all an immediate view component is, is a component with a special render function which accepts a single parameter
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// We use `this` here because Traviso sets it as the event target...
obj.mouseover = function () { d_selection.immediateRender("highlightObject", this);};
— Interesting, I haven't used Flux
— The caveat is you can't invoke it directly... the view domain controlling the component must do so, hence the string in that function call
— So you basically tell the view domain "render this component with your state and this parameter I am giving you"
— The magic this allows is untouched immutable state, fully being handled for you
— Very fancy
— Along with that both the component and view domain must be marked as "immediate mode" explictly
— It's good to be explicit about breaking Flux rules :P
— And I'm struggling to implement a pivot table at work
— Https://www.npmjs.com/package/sqlpivot