contexture-client

contexture-client

The Contexture (aka ContextTree) Client

:construction: VERY MUCH WIP :construction:

API

The root function takes three params:

Tree - the actual tree service - the async function that calls the contexture server config - instance config

Features

• Updates individual nodes independently
• Updates only the most minimal set of nodes possible in response to changes
  • Powered by reactors (only/others/all, field/join change, item add/remove, "data/config" property change) which account for and/or/not relationship
• Per node Pause/Resume
  • Keeps track of if it missed updates, allowing it to know if it needs to update on resume or not
• Per node async validation
  • Node types can implement a function to have a node instance pass (return true), be ignored for the search (return false), or block the search (throw)
• Stopping blank searches and eliminating blank nodes (nodes without values)
• Per Node Loading Indicators
• Intelligent Search Debouncing (global debounce and optional per node pausing until results come back)
• Dropping intermediate responses (implementation currently missing)
• Error handling

Improvements

This client has a lot of design improvements over the previous client implementation (DataContext/ContextGroup):

• The client update logic now accounts for the join relationship, making it even more precise about when to run searches.
• Dispatch (and action methods) return a promise for when it resolves despite debounce, instead of relying on subscribing to when an updating observable becomes falsey.
• Much more memory efficient - functional instead of local function copies
• Instant traversals due to flat tree in parallel with nested
• Redux-y API