Fantastic work, David! Thank you for all your hard work on Om! This is definitely an exciting release and I look forward to playing with it over the coming days. I'll be sure to report back on my experience with it.
On 18 October 2014 16:53, David Nolen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm happy to announce the release of Om 0.8.0-alpha1. This release > includes the single biggest conceptual enhancement since its initial > release - Reference Cursors. > > As we begin to build larger and larger applications with Om, we > often run afoul of the need to organize our application around a > hierarchical tree. This is more problematic than in React itself as Om > emphasizes a programming model that supports full snapshotting of the > application state. This seemingly beneficial property actually > exacerbates the hierachical issue and often leads to an incredible > amount non-modular programming! > > The introduction of Reference Cursors allow Om programmers to stop > thinking in terms of trees and return to a more natural mode of UI > programming - simply calling out into shared APIs around application > data precisely where you need it. No need to pass data through > intermediate components on way to the target child component - > Reference Cursors allow you to get at the data exactly where it is > required and this without abandoning the ability to time travel over > your application state. > > There are more thoughts and details here: > https://github.com/swannodette/om/wiki/Advanced-Tutorial#reference-cursors > > Please give Reference Cursors a try in your application and send lots > of feedback! > > This is an alpha release. No previous Om APIs should be affected, > however the Reference Cursor feature is largely untested beyond > a simple example in the repo. > > https://github.com/swannodette/om > > Cheers, > David > > -- > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ClojureScript" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. > -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
