Just bumping this to the top as it has the best discussion of html lazy 
that I know of in this mailing list and Evan's latest talk (React Rally) 
emphasised lazy there is such a way that I think I had better start using 
it better

On Wednesday, 2 August 2017 05:17:01 UTC+2, ajs wrote:
>
> Hi Mark, feel free to hit me up on Slack sometime to discuss further. My 
> last two messages to this list have had more than one week delay in posting 
> (ignore the timestamp, I'm posting this on Friday July 21), so that might 
> be easier. 
>
> I discussed these ideas quite a bit with @ilias and he made a rather 
> interesting example of doing some things relating to state access: 
> https://github.com/zwilias/elm-disco
>
> I'm a firm believer that view functions should only receive data that they 
> directly interact with, and nothing more. I've just found that to be a much 
> better way to reason about interfaces.
>
> On 21 Jul 2017, at 19:04, Mark Hamburg <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> Per the other thread discussing this this morning, I don't know that 
> passing the whole data model to all of the view-side functions is that 
> horrendous. (We pass around a UXConfig structure in all of our views to 
> provide access to translation functions amongst other things and the 
> biggest pain is that I'm not certain that making it he first parameter by 
> convention was the right choice.) Passing the whole data model feels icky, 
> but you can document the dependencies using different modules to access 
> different parts of the data model and you can still keep data model 
> mutation out of the views by emulating the command mechanism.
>
> That said, there are, definitely friction points where being able to 
> subscribe to pieces of the data model would be a significant improvement. 
> See my other message for some examples of these. But the friction is not in 
> needing to pass the whole data model through the rendering process.
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 6:55 AM ajs <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> > However, the downside of doing passing the entire model everywhere is 
>> that you have to keep the entire model in your head when looking at any of 
>> your view functions.
>>
>> This is correct, but how can you avoid passing the whole model to all 
>> views if the data model isn't structured similarly to your view hierarchy? 
>> The idea of doing pre-processing on your data into a view-friendly 
>> structure seems to add overhead and complexity, while also more or less 
>> duplicating your view structure in two places: the view stack, and the view 
>> data.
>>
>> We have found that as apps grow in size, it is unreasonable to couple a 
>> data model's internal structure to the requirements of a UI, and thus 
>> passing The whole model is the only valid option for most view functions. 
>> The exception are leaf nodes down the line that have few or no children, in 
>> which case they can receive focused inputs only.
>>
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