Using setProps to do the react update is depricated, per cortex intro about cortex

[mquan]

I'm not aware of the convention of calling render method. I find this to be less efficient and possibly not correct to always rerender on cortex update than simply calling setProps. Can you point me to the react documentation that suggests this. Thanks

[mquan]

Nvm, I found the doc here https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/component-api.html#setprops

I don't think using forceUpdate is the solution here. I'll investigate why render does not pick up the updated cortex. May be it has some builtin comparison that does not recognize props changes because cortex isn't immutable.

[mquan]

In the meantime, you can follow the suggestion here facebook/react#4087

Basically, you manage the state of top level component instead of using props.

[mquan]

I added the following to the README, let me know if you have any question

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    // Assume you pass your data into props as myData
    var myCortex = new Cortex(props.myData, (updatedCortex) => {
      this.setState({myCortex: updatedCortex});
    });

    this.state = {myCortex: myCortex};
  }

  render() {
    // access cortex data from this.state.myCortex
  }
}