Thanks, it's a lot clearer now. I am moderately familiar with Elm and Hyperapp (never used them but read a few articles/docs about them). I use Redux often though which I think is pretty similar (correct me if I am wrong.)
My main concern with this kind of functional front-end pattern is best explained with a short story:
I am a maintaining a transparent reactive state management lib for React (which re-renders comps on relevant data mutations) and a big chunk of the issues are about very basic operations - like getting / settings values or applying (async) side effect. I always explain to simply use obj.prop, obj.prop = value, and async functions which they are all already familiar with. They are too afraid to even try them though because of their functional background.
I really like to 'hack around' with the language and I usually feel bad when I am forced into a set of best practices. When I work with immutable libs I often have to check their API for specific things while using mutable data requires me to do this far less often. I can play around a lot more. Obviously, this is not always true but this is my gut feeling.
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Thanks, it's a lot clearer now. I am moderately familiar with Elm and Hyperapp (never used them but read a few articles/docs about them). I use Redux often though which I think is pretty similar (correct me if I am wrong.)
My main concern with this kind of functional front-end pattern is best explained with a short story:
I am a maintaining a transparent reactive state management lib for React (which re-renders comps on relevant data mutations) and a big chunk of the issues are about very basic operations - like getting / settings values or applying (async) side effect. I always explain to simply use
obj.prop,obj.prop = value, and async functions which they are all already familiar with. They are too afraid to even try them though because of their functional background.I really like to 'hack around' with the language and I usually feel bad when I am forced into a set of best practices. When I work with immutable libs I often have to check their API for specific things while using mutable data requires me to do this far less often. I can play around a lot more. Obviously, this is not always true but this is my gut feeling.