React hooks about lax.js

[alexfoxy]

Hey! Glad you're enjoying it :)

I didn't write the react hooks lib but I'll gladly take a look if you can provide an example!

[AndrewThian]

Ahhh, hooks are a native react implementation! Lemme double check if it's also breaking using React classes and I'll report back ASAP :)

If not then, I'll leave an example here for how to replicate the scenario!

[alexfoxy]

How did u get on?

[AndrewThian]

hey! so sorry, got caught up with work work. But here are some findings!

React version 16.8.6

Findings:

1. Class implementation of lax.js works [obviously].
2. If you define lax.setup in a class constructor on the root element, using hooks to add lax.addElement also works.
3. However, if you use useEffect hook to initialize lax.setup it fails to update the subscribed element

I'm double checking on a code sandbox to see if it's consistent too! One moment

Edit:
Here's a react sandbox:
https://codesandbox.io/embed/nryzvz71wp

Basically, there are two types of setups:

1. [Fails] using a function and react hooks useEffect to setup lax
2. [Passes] using a class constructor and setup lax

I'll be diving deeper later but this is all I have for now!

[arthurdenner]

@AndrewThian, if you move the lax.setup call to outside of the useEffect hook, it works as expected, but I'm not sure if that's the right solution because as you said, it worked properly with v1.1.0.

@alexfoxy, a pull request was opened on my library, use-lax, to move the call to outside of the hook, but I think the more problem is on lax itself.

[alexfoxy]

lax.setup() should be called before anything else as it sets it's elements equal to []. I debugged your example and useEffect() in bubble.js gets called before useEffect() in App.js.

You should only call lax.setup() in App constructor.

[arthurdenner]

@alexfoxy, nothing changed in lax within 1.1.x and 1.2.x? Because it works properly with previous versions using lax.setup inside the hook (after the component mounts).

[arthurdenner]

Check out this sandbox with [email protected] and then upgrade it to the 1.2.0.

[alexfoxy]

It is because in previous versions lax would look for components with attribute names to populate elements e.g. data-lax-preset="fadeIn" so it was finding the bubble element when lax.setup() was called. In v1.2 you need to add class='lax' to any elements that you want to be automatically animated by lax, so you can fix your example with className="bubble lax", however it makes more sense to do what I said and call lax.setup() asap.

[AndrewThian]

ahhhhhh, totally my bad. Didn't read the README well enough! Thanks so much for explaining @alexfoxy really helped out a lot. You're right, I think just shifting the lax.setup outside of the useEffect hook would mean lax is initialized with the creation of the function just like the class constructor.

May I suggest a update in documentation for those using React hooks and migrating from 1.1.x to 1.2.x? :) Thanks again!

[arthurdenner]

It is because in previous versions lax would look for components with attribute names to populate elements e.g. data-lax-preset="fadeIn" so it was finding the bubble element when lax.setup() was called. In v1.2 you need to add class='lax' to any elements that you want to be automatically animated by lax, so you can fix your example with className="bubble lax", however it makes more sense to do what I said and call lax.setup() asap.

I see, thanks for the explanation.