Heyo everyone,
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I'm just starting out with Meteor + Polymer using Synthesis by #aruntk and I'm very happy about the results and greatful for the time he's invested in this project. There's one issue I'm having though.
I've previously only changed a iron-pages object to change the content of my view. Putting that in a FlowRouter like FlowRouter.route("/", action: {ironpages.select("home");}); works just fine. However, my site is getting more complex and I want to rerender a whole section now. I'm being told to do it reactively which is (to my poor understanding) the preferred way of building Apps here.
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So what I did is just putting mwcLayout.render("test-layout",{"main":"yas-manual-page"}); in my Router action. However, I have to reload to make the changes visible which is not what I want.
the router action is being called when changing the URL
the mwcLayout.render() call works if I reload the page once in the initial building of the site
calling mwcLayout.render() again at a later point does not do anything
I've read up on the topic and people say it's a problem with single-page apps and not building it reactively and whatnot, but I have no idea how this is not reactive. It's reacting to the URL change.
Please, if you have a minute, share some insight with me, I'm really stuck. :slight_smile:
Have a wonderful day y'all!
disclaimer: it's a repost form the Meteor forums which suggests coming here instead.
This behavior is added as a feature of mwc layout to prevent multiple re rendering during each route change. Workarounds here are to create another mwc layout or to set third argument forceRender. From the mwc:layout docs
forceRender
In mwc:layout we dont re render the layout unless the new layout is not equal to the current layout or forceRender argument is set. This is to prevent unwanted rerendering while changing routes(even if you change a param/queryparam the route gets rerun so does the render function written inside FlowRouter action). forceRender comes in handy when you have to change the rendering while keeping the current layout.
...
<mwc-layout id="demo-landing">
<div region="header"></div>
<div region="main"></div>
</mwc-layout>
...
imports/startup/client/router.js
...
action:function(params,queryParams){
mwcLayout.render("demo-landing",{"main":"test-layout1","header":"test-header"});
}
...
Now if you try
mwcLayout.render("demo-landing",{"main":"test-layout2","header":"test-header"});
from console it wont work since layout is not changed and forceRender is not set.
This works->
mwcLayout.render("demo-landing",{"main":"test-layout","header":"test-header"},true);
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I have a question about migration from asyncData pattern to fecth in Nuxt App. It seems straightforward, except for 1 thing - i can't get NuxtLoading component to act right. I've tried to watch for $fetchState and start loading with this.$nuxt.$loading.start(), but it's no use. The loading indicator flashes for mere second and disappears without any input on my part.
Is there a trick to make it work like it does with asyncData?
The whole point of using fetch() is to not block the render in between pages. The loader is here to let the user know when he will be able to expect the next page.
When you're using fetch(), you can use $fetchState.pending to make a conditional and display either a loader or a skeleton like this: https://buefy.org/documentation/skeleton/
The loading bar should still be triggered but it will probably be smoother (and maybe shorter visually), I'd recommend to let it live it's life.
Working on an application that pulls the current user to use as the default user. Using React 16.
So I am having a problem that I can't seem to find the solution to, hopefully fresher eyes than mine might be able to see a way to handle this. But first a little React knowledge.
React works in components. When a component is called, it has a couple of stages that it goes through before actually displaying any code.
constructor - the component is initiated, any data/structures that the component needs are created here.
componentDidMount -- once the component is created, they this where the data that it needs is loaded. For example, if you needed to display a list of items, those items would be loaded here.
render - this is where the html is created for the component is built. This is what displays things in the browser.
Obviously there is a lot more going on under the covers than just this, but this is sufficient for illustration purposes.
So my problem is I need to default some input in the render to show data that is supposedly loaded in the componentDidMount. But that doesn't seem to be happening. Instead, the data that I need is being loaded after the render.
I feel that either I am not understanding correctly how React does these things, or I need to create some sort of delay to allow the data to load completely before the render.
Can someone help me, direct me to a resource that could help, or tell me what I am doing wrong?
TL;DR: Deleting the DOM Element of a custom Element created with Angular Elements will lead to sub-routers not loading components
First, the code is available at Github.
Sadly, I did not get a stackblitz version running, but locally, after a clone, npm install and ng serve it should run fine.
About the general structure:
The Project shows an example of a WebComponent exposed by an Angular App via Elements.
The WebComponent is used in the index.html, which is referred as container Application.
The use case here is a little bit constructed, but the navigation that occurs, when clicking
on the two top bottoms is comparable to the real world use case.
Normally this WebComponent would have been used in an AngularJS legacy Application. Since there are many overlappings between the two root views (overview1 overview2) it is used in two AngularJS components, in between ui-router handled navigation. This means, that exactly this constructed actions happen. The DOM Elements will be deleted and re-added.
So basically the problem is:
If I am deleting DOM Elements of a WebComponent (so deleting the CustomElement itself) from external, and then re-adding it with another route, The Child-route components of this will not get loaded. If there is a short delay (50ms), everything works fine.
To reproduce the problem:
Load page and click an the "switch with delay" button.
Reveal Detail Component
Switch to the other Overview by clicking "switch with delay" again.
Reveal Detail Component
=> Everything should work fine
Repeat the same steps, but this time click only on "switch directly".
Prior Investigations
What I already debugged is the Router. So I went through the log messages with "enable tracing"
and they seemed to be no differences. Afterwards I compared the Components' Lifecycle and
the thing I noticed is, that in the working example the old Detail**1**Component Object will get destroyed a new Detail**1**Component one will be created and directly destroyed afterwards and then everything regarding the Detail**2**Component will get constructed.
On the not working example it is like this:
A new Detail**1**Component will get constructed again and destroyed afterwards. Then the old Detail**1**Component will get destroyed. Then nothing regard the Detail**2**Component will get constructed.
So routing seems to work fine, but components won't get loaded in this case, maybe due to a strange lifecycle, because of the Detachment of the View to the ViewModel happening due to hard deleting those WebComponent in DOM.
Maybe I am just dumb and did something fundamentally wrong, but I could not find anything in the Web regarding this problem and every solution I tried by myself just resulted in a workaround like establishing a delay.
You can find a workaround available on Github.
I forced the recreation of the DOM object by attaching a boolean
to the navigation button, which will determine if the DetailComponent
should actually get shown.
<router-outlet *ngIf="shown">
Then the Outlet will get reevaluated and the DOM will get refilled on clicking the button.
This will effectively mitgating the issues described.
In my opinion its not the cleanest solution, but cleaner than a timeout, that
even needs to get applied from the outside.
I hope this was helpful and maybe someone might point me to the actual fix and
not only workaround.
Since this was my first question do not hesitate to give me feedback on formal
appearance.
It really scares me that I might want to know this thing so much. That's the whole essence of SPA (Single-Page Application). I am curious about Vue.js rendering pages. I will list some of my knowledge and If I'm wrong, please correct me. Things I think I know:
There's a which might be a tree-structure parsed from html.
Then, DOM RENDER TREE IS constructoted from css and that DOM-TREE
After that, rendering page means data is shown on the screen.
What about Vue.js? I know it has virtual DOM. If I change something with Javascript in Vue.js, the real change happens in virtual DOM because it's faster and then syncing with the real template happens. If all that is right(if wrong, please tell me) then my question is the following:
When I use Vue Router and click some link to change the page, When new page gets shown, beforeMount() is called, then if i click back button to go the previous page, beforeMount() is called also. When using Vue Router and back button, does page rendering happens again or it's saved somewhere and to make it faster, it gets all the html from cache? So If I go to some page, then click back or Vue Router link, and page rendering starts from scratch, why would it be fast?
In my opinion, page rendering happens when there's some data changed or it's the first time I am accessing that specific URL. For the second time accessing, if data has not changed, it doesn't render the page from scratch. What do you think ? Thank you.
The way DerbyJS (http://derbyjs.com) seems to work at the moment is that it replaces everything in the body tag of the document whenever you click a link.
Is there anyway to say use the template, but replace the content inside #main-content with that instead of the whole body?
Navigation on the left is fixed and doesn't need the benefits of realtime interaction.
Why this is an issue is needing to run some Javascript on the page load to set the size of some containers based on the size of a users browser window, and once I click a link, this setup gets wiped and recreated, and of course, the Javascript doesn't run again, because the document itself hasn't refreshed, just the body.
This would also allow me to write nicer jQuery bindings for the most part, $('element').click(, rather than $('html').on('click','element', ...
Any thoughts, or is this a step too far for this framework at this point in time?
P.S. As I'm only just getting started with Derby, and realtime frameworks in general, maybe what I'm trying to do isn't best practice anyway? I chose Derby because I like the UX part of initial render on the server, then the rest in the client, but sharing routers, which reduces the duplication of code. Open to any better ways of achieving this.
There is no way to rerender part of body on page reload. Just whole body.
You can use app.enter hook to run js code after every page render.
No need to use jQuery bindings, use Derby bindings
I fully agree with Vladimir's answer, just trying to add something to it.
It should be possible to re-render part of the UI through transitional routes (http://derbyjs.com/#routes). In your case it seems like app.enter is the way to go though.