Thanks much for taking the time to read and comment. I agree with your observations. The distinction I am looking for is between props that are relevant for rendering and props that aren't. Props that are allowed to change and props that don't (sometimes it is okay to update the initialValue on the fly but it might require work as loading new assets etc).
The 'props' interface treats all of them as subject to change at any time and doesn't allow you to express anything else. I have seen components in which maybe 10% of the props were subject to change after initialisation (the rest was configuration, static callbacks and such). Trying to understand and debug those can be a pain.
Because I have a lot of experience with languages like Java in which you have proper constructors, methods (beyond just 'render') and so on, I sorely miss this richness of functionality here and feel forced to dumb down my designs 😔
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Thanks much for taking the time to read and comment. I agree with your observations. The distinction I am looking for is between props that are relevant for rendering and props that aren't. Props that are allowed to change and props that don't (sometimes it is okay to update the initialValue on the fly but it might require work as loading new assets etc).
The 'props' interface treats all of them as subject to change at any time and doesn't allow you to express anything else. I have seen components in which maybe 10% of the props were subject to change after initialisation (the rest was configuration, static callbacks and such). Trying to understand and debug those can be a pain.
Because I have a lot of experience with languages like Java in which you have proper constructors, methods (beyond just 'render') and so on, I sorely miss this richness of functionality here and feel forced to dumb down my designs 😔