- Upgrade reagent to 0.9.0-rc1. Report issues here.
- Remove direct dependency on react and react-dom as these are now provided by reagent.
- Remove dependency on create-react-class as it is obsolete.
- Migrate to shadow-cljs and lein-shadow
- Bring deps.edn into parity with project.clj
- Revert
after
andenrich
interceptors to the behaviour in version 0.10.6 and earlier; i.e. reverts breaking changes in 0.10.7.
after
andenrich
interceptors now no longer run if there is nodb
effect, rather than running against thedb
coffect. #453
- add
update-effect
#440
- #512 Error with infer-externs "goog is not defined in the externs"
- Update dependency on reagent from
0.7.0
to0.8.1
. - Update dependency on karma from
4.0.0
to4.1.0
. - Update dependency on Clojure from
1.8.0
to1.10.1
. - Update dependency on ClojureScript from
1.10.439
to1.10.520
.
- After interceptor now runs against effect db if effect db is nil/false. #447
- The effect handler for
:dispatch-later
will now ignorenils
. #455 - Add locking to the EventQueue when running under JVM to avoid race conditions and subtle errors when dispatching lots of events. #471
- Event handlers and fx are now traced, to provide more granular timing info in re-frame-trace. This has no impact on your code execution if you haven't enabled tracing.
- Interceptors, effects, and coeffects are now captured in re-frame's tracing.
- add
purge-event-queue
to the API. See day8/re-frame-test#13 for motivation. - added a new FAQ entry Reagent looks terrific. Why do I need re-frame?
- added a new Infographic explaining how dominoes play out over time in the browser
- Debounce trace callbacks to handle larger batches of traces at once, to improve efficiency.
- Improved error messages to not have multiple spaces before variables.
- Handle js/performance not being defined in NodeJS. #439
- Improve cache eviction behaviour of subscription caches. In more complex applications a subscription may have been unnecessarily created and destroyed several times after a Figwheel re-render.
- On dispose callbacks now run on JVM re-frame. #386.
- Log warnings when tracing is not enabled and you try to add a trace callback #395.
- added a new FAQ entry How do I turn on/off polling a database every 60 secs (hint: effects)
- added a new FAQ entry How do I do full-stack re-frame?
- Added a gitbook for re-frame docs #414.
- Lots of spelling fixes, for which we are eternally grateful.
- fix a showstopper bug introduced at the last minute in v0.10.0
- added API documentation
- added testing docs
- added a new mental model
- added a new FAQ entry on dispatch processing
- added a new FAQ entry on representing normalised data in
app-db
- added a new FAQ entry on how to register a global interceptor
- #357
I'd be amazed if this actually broke any apps. Shocked! But, better safe than sorry.
The effect handler for
:db
has changed: if the new value provided testsidentical?
to the existing value withinapp-db
, thenapp-db
is notreset!
. Previously,app-db
was alwaysreset!
irrespective, which potentially caused Layer 2 subscriptions to run unnecessarily. So this is a tiny efficiency change in this edge case, and it results in behaviour that better matches programmer intuitions.
- #400 Improve error message when a registered cofx can't be found
- The effect handler for
:dispatch-n
will now ignorenils
. See checkin - #340
- #341 Fix
re-frame.core/on-changes
to work even if event handler does not set:db
. - #395 Warn users if they try to enable tracing without setting the closure define
re-frame.trace.trace-enabled?
.
- added a CITATION.md file
- re-frame now supports self-hosted ClojureScript at an alpha/unofficial/experimental level. It may be removed in the future if it causes problems elsewhere. #325
reg-sub
enforces using:<-
to indicate subscription inputs. Previously any keyword would have worked here. While using anything other than:<-
was undefined behaviour previously, this could possibly break some code when upgrading. Thanks to @Sohalt #336.
re-frame.interceptor/update-coeffect
has been fixed. #328- Fix ns form in
re-frame.interceptor
. Thanks to @ggeoffrey. #338 - Even more spelling fixes.
- Update dependency on reagent from
0.6.0-rc
to0.6.0
. - A truckload of tweaks, spelling fixes, and general improvements to the docs. A big thanks to everyone who contributed!
- Use
:devDependencies
instead of:dependencies
for the lein-npm Karma dependencies. This stops consumers of re-frame with the lein-npm plugin from having to install Karma and friends. - Correct
:id
of on-changes interceptor from:enrich
to:on-changes
- #296 Dynamic subscriptions weren't working in re-frame 0.9.0. This has been rectified. The hosts responsible have been taken underground for reprocessing.
Welcome, board members. Dr Ford has created a new 6-part narrative, and Bernard some infographics. Anyone seen Dolores?
- The README and /docs have been substantially reworked.
- #218 Make it okay to use
subscribe
in Form-1 components. This is a big deal.
- Due to the new tracing features using
goog-define
(described below), re-frame now requires ClojureScript 1.7.48 or above. See Parameterizing ClojureScript Builds for more information.
- Added
clear-subscription-cache!
function. You should call this when you are hot reloading code to ensure that any bad subscriptions that cause rendering exceptions are removed. See Why do we callclear-subscription-cache!
? and reagent-project/reagent#272 for more details.
- #200 Remove trailing spaces from console logging
- Add
re-frame.loggers/get-loggers
function to well, you know. - Added experimental tracing features. These are subject to change and remain undocumented at the moment. By default they are disabled, and will be completely compiled out by advanced optimisations. To enable them, set a
:closure-defines
key to{"re_frame.trace.trace_enabled_QMARK_" true}
- #223 When using
make-restore-fn
, dispose of any subscriptions that were created after the restore function was created. - #283 Make trim-v interceptor symmetrical, so it adds the missing event id back on to the
:event
coeffect in the:after
function.
- #259 Fix a bug where registering a subscription would create and close over dependent subscriptions, meaning that they would never be garbage collected, and doing more work than necessary.
- Fix a bug where subscribing to a subscription that didn't exist would throw an exception, instead of returning nil.
- #248 Provide after interceptor with
db
coeffect, if nodb
effect was produced. - #278 Provide enrich interceptor with
db
coeffect, if nodb
effect was produced.
Staying on the leading edge of new buzzwords is obviously critical for any framework. Angular's terrifying faceplant is a sobering reminder to us all. With this release, re-frame's already impressive buzzword muscles bulge further with new walnuts like "effects", "coeffects", "interceptors" and "de-duplicated signal graph". I know, right?
Some may even find these new features useful.
Joking aside, this is a substantial release which will change how you use re-frame.
-
re-frame subscriptions are now de-duplicated. As a result, many Signal graphs will be more efficient. The new behaviour better matches programmer intuitions about what "should" happen.
Each subscription causes a handler to execute, producing a reactive stream of updates. Two calls to
(subscribe [:some :query])
results in two copies of the same subscription handler running, each delivering a stream of updates. Now, if these two subscriptions were running at the same time, this would be inefficient. Both handlers would be doing the same computations and delivering the same stream of updates. Unnecessary, duplicate work.Starting with this version, this sort of duplication has been eliminated. Two, or more, concurrent subscriptions for the same query will now source reactive updates from the one executing handler.
So, how do we know if two subscriptions are "the same"? Answer: two subscriptions are the same if their query vectors test
=
to each other.So, these two subscriptions are not "the same":
[:some-event 42]
[:some-event "blah"]
. Even though they involve the same event id,:some-event
, the query vectors do not test=
. -
added a new subscription handler registration function called
re-frame.core/reg-sub
. It is an alternative tore-frame.core/register-sub
(now renamed tore-frame.core/reg-sub-raw
).reg-sub
is significantly easier to use and understand, while often also being more performant. The design has really fallen out nicely and we're delighted with it.With
reg-sub
, you no longer need to usereaction
explicitly. Subscription handlers are now pure which makes them easier to understand, trace and test etc. Plus, as you'll see in the docs, there is some gratuitous syntactic sugar. Who doesn't like sugar?At this point, the todomvc example represents the best tutorial on the subject: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame/blob/master/examples/todomvc/src/todomvc/subs.cljs
-
re-frame now supports the notion of Event Handlers accepting coeffects and returning effects.
There's now three kinds of event handlers:-db
,-fx
and-ctx
.
For a tutorial see: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame/tree/master/docsFor Effect Handler examples see:
-
You can now run and debug re-frame tests on the JVM.
Just to be clear: this does not mean you can run re-frame apps on the JVM (there's no React or Reagent available). But you can debug your event handler tests using full JVM tooling goodness.
@samroberton and @escherize have provided the thought leadership and drive here. They converted re-frame to
.cljc
, supplying pluggable interop for both thejs
andjvm
platforms.Further, they have worked with @danielcompton to create a library of testing utilities which will hopefully evolve into a nice step forward on both platforms:
https://github.com/Day8/re-frame-testWork is ongoing in this area.
-
the undo/redo features buried in re-frame has been factored out into a standalone library.
undo and redo have been a part of re-frame from the beginning, but they have never officially been made a part of the API, and have not been documented. So it nice to see it available, and fully documented.
This new library includes various enhancements over that which previously existed, and it works in with effectful handlers described above.
-
Middleware is dead, long live Interceptors.
Up until now, re-frame has allowed you to decorate event handlers with middleware which looked after the cross cutting concerns of tracing, undo/redo, validation, etc. This has proved a neat and successful part of the framework. We thought we were happy.
But recently @steveb8n gave a cljsyd talk on Pedestal's Interceptor pattern which suddenly transformed them from arcane to delightfully simple in 20 mins. Interceptors are really "middleware via data" rather than "middleware via higher order functions". So it is another way of doing the same thing, but thanks to @steveb8n Interceptors appear a more flexible base, and simpler.
Interceptors also dovetail really nicely with the effects and coeffects story which has emerged in re-frame through this 0.8.0 release.
Docs: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame/tree/master/docs
-
we now have a logo designed by Sketch Maester @martinklepsch. Thank you Martin! But remember, no good deed ever goes unpunished - we'll be pestering you every time from now on :-)
-
requires Reagent >= v0.6.0
-
re-frame.core/register-handler
has been renamedre-frame.core/reg-event-db
. There's now three kinds of event-handlers,-db
,-fx
and-ctx
. Event handlers of the 2nd and 3rd kinds should be registered via the new registration functionsre-frame.core/reg-event-fx
andre-frame.core/reg-event-ctx
-
re-frame.core/register-sub
has been renamedre-frame.core/reg-sub-raw
. This is to indicate that this kind of registration is now considered the low level, close to the metal way to create subscriptions handlers. This release introducedreg-sub
which becomes the preferred way to register subscription handlers. -
middlewares have been replaced by Interceptors. In day to day use, there's a good chance you won't notice the change UNLESS:
-
You have written your own middleware. If so, you'll have to rewrite it. See how the builtin interceptors are done.
-
You explicitly use
comp
to compose middleware like this:(reg-event-db :some-id (comp debug tim-v) ;; <-- change to [debug trim-v] (fn [db event] ...))
-
-
if you have previously used the undo/redo capabilities buried in re-frame, be aware they have extracted into a sibling library: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame-undo.
-
By default, re-frame uses
js/console
functions likeerror
andwarn
when logging, but you can supply alternative functions usingre-frame.core/set-loggers!
.With this release, any alternatives you supply will be called with different parameters. Previously loggers were called with a single
str
parameter but now they are expected to act likeconsole.log
itself and take variadic, non string params. Sorry to break things, but we are trying to maximise use of cljs-devtools and information is lost when strings are output, instead of actual data.Of course, you need only worry about this if you are using
re-frame.core/set-loggers!
to hook in your own loggers. If you are, then, to transition, you'll need to tweak like this:;; your old log function might have looked like this. Single string parameter. (defn my-logger [s] (do-something-with s)) ;; your new version will have variadic params, and turn them into a string (defn my-logger [& args] (do-something-with (apply str args))
- Bug fix:
post-event-callbacks
were not called whendispatch-sync
was called. - added new API
re-frame.core/clear-post-event-callback
which de-registers a callback previously added byre-frame.core/add-post-event-callback
- when an event-handler makes no change to
app-db
, thedebug
middleware now logs a single line saying so, rather than a "group". Makes it slightly easier to grok the absence of change. - Standardised test namespaces: renamed to use -test suffix and moved to eliminate redundant /test folder
- Added cljs.test based tests via browser/html. These mimic original karma tests. NOTE: previous
lein aliases
once
andauto
have been replaced bytest-once
,test-auto
&karma-once
see CONTRIBUTING.md
Breaking:
-
removed middleware
log-ex
. It is no longer needed because browsers now correctly report the throw site of re-thrown exceptions. In the unlikely event that you absolutely still need it, the source forlog-ex
is still inmiddleware.cljs
, commented out. Just transfer it to your project. -
debug
middleware now produces slightly different output (to console). So no code will need to change, just your expectations of what you see in console. Previously all console output from an event handler was put into the one console group, which could lead to exceptions being hidden (down in a closed group).
Improvements:
- added one tick of extra pause when events have
:flush-dom
metadata. Previously, there were odd times when the pause wasn't long enough to ensure redraws. - now compatible with Reagent 0.6.0 (but this not fully tested) while remaining backwards compatible with Reagent v0.5.1
- #138 Switch to using CircleCI and automated testing with Karma
Fixed:
- #149 Undo now discards oldest undo states, not the newest ones.
New API:
-
#118 - Add
add-post-event-callback
to the API. @pupeno is developing prerenderer which looks pretty neat. Support this effort by adding a way for prerenderer to hook event processing. -
on-changes
middleware now official. No longer experimental.
Improvements:
- #134 My thanks to @scgilardi for a nice simplification of the routing state machine. Again!
- #133 Improve Readme formatting
New Features:
- #108 - Add dynamic subscriptions. Docs to follow, and your cheque is in the mail.
Improvements:
-
fixed problem with log grouping
-
removed
-------New Event-------
log msg -
made groups collapsed by default
-
#104 - Updated to the latest TodoMVC CSS
-
Reimplemented the router loop. Removed use of core.async. Replaced with hand rolled scheduling. See 420e42a As a result:
- there is less of a pause between a
dispatch
and the associated event handler being run. (<1ms vs 5ms??) - groups of events queued up will be handled in a batch, one after the other, without yielding to the browser (previously re-frame yielded to the browser before every single event).
This fixes issues like #39 and #121
I doubt this will affect normal apps. But it could affect games which depend on existing timings. Maybe. It could affect apps which dispatch large volumes of events (telemetry?) very quickly. Maybe.
- there is less of a pause between a
Improvements:
- fix #65 - Detect mistaken use of middleware factories
examples/
now work with figwheel
Headline:
- Exceptions in event handlers no longer break the router loop.
Previously, any exception in an event handler broke the app
permanently. This change will:
- improve the debugging experience with figwheel
- mean apps, in production, stand a chance of reporting UHE to the user, and can perhaps even recover to a sane state.
- #53 Fix Logging And Error Reporting You can now provide your own logging functions. Further explanation here.
Deprecated:
log-ex
middleware is no longer needed. Simply remove its use. Sometime in the last couple of months, changes to the CLJS runtime meant that useful exceptions could escape go-loops, and good stack traces appear (at least in Chrome).
New Features:
- #52 Add a way to purge redos
(dispatch [:purge-redos])
When trying to recover from an UHE, do an undo to get back to the last sane state, and then use this new feature to purge the just-generated-redo. - #43 Add ability to clear handlers (event and subs) via
two new API functions:
- re-frame.core/clear-sub-handlers!
- re-frame.core/clear-event-handlers! Useful for those using the ClojureScript fork of Component.
Experimental:
- #50 Add "reaction-like" middleware called
on-changes
.
Other:
- improve some comments in todomvc example
Improvements:
- Fix #42 - Put in checks for dispatch-sync
- Fix #49 - add table of content and link to wiki for middleware
- Fix #46 - Minor typos fixed
Various small improvements and bug fixes:
- log-ex middleware added to core api (it was a mistake that it was missing)
- modest improves to simple example. Better comments, layout, etc.
- the anonymous functions in standard middleware now have meaningful names, which makes stack traces easier to understand.
- #24 - Fix missing paren in README
- #31 - Fix list formatting in README
- #32 - fix a broken wiki link
- #30 - Fix up the enrich docstring
- the middleware
after
andenrich
now call the supplied functionf
with bothdb
andv
(previously justdb
). Because javascript is so forgiving about function arity, this change is backwards compatible. - new event handler middleware
log-ex
for correctly printing handler stacktraces. See explanation. - ongoing improvements to the docs in Wiki
- move to reagent v0.5.0
- fix undo bug which could result in incorrect explanations.
- improve todomvc's use of localstorage
- experimental work with slimmer.js for testing
- correct README wiki links
- license.txt was incorrectly named previously
Renames:
register-pure-handler
renamed toregister-handler
(and existing low levelregister-handler
becomesregister-handler-base
but is not a part of the API).- remove
apply-event
middleware and replace with similartrim-v
- rename
register-subs
toregister-sub
(avoid confusion over possible plurals) - rename
set-max-undos
toset-max-undos!
Changes:
undoable
middleware is now a factory. Where before you used thisundoable
, you must now use this(undoable "some explanation")
. See further below.
- exceptions in handler now reported more sanely via console.error. (core.async really messes with a good stack)
- example
todomvc
available in examples folder. - Wiki documentation is now more substantial.
- introduce new handler middleware:
debug
,enrich
andafter
- exceptions in a go loop are a special type of hell. Improve the reporting of exceptions happening in event handlers.
- allow Middleware to be registered as a vector. data > functions > macros
- fix two bugs in undo implementation
- name licence file correctly, thanks to @smith
- fix typo in readme, thanks to @btheado
- Readme now admits to 200 lines of code, not 100.
- dispatch now explicitly returns nil
- travis integration (not that we have any tests currently)
The undo/redo feature built into re-frame is now more functional (at the cost of a breaking change).
There is now an explanation associated with each undo state describing modification. This allows an app to inform the user what actions they will be undoing or redoing.
Previously undoable
was simply middleware, but it is now a middleware factory.
Essentially, that means you can't use it "plain" anymore, and instead you must
call it, like this (undoable "Some explanation")
The explanation
provided to undoable must be either a string
(static
explanation) or a function (db event) -> string
, allowing you to customize
the undo message based on details of the event.