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`re-frame-trace` is a programmer's dashboard. It helps you to see inside a running `re-frame`
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`re-frame-trace` is a programmer's dashboard. It helps you to see inside a running `re-frame`
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application, allowing you to better understand it and debug it.
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application, allowing you to better understand it and debug it.
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**Status:** Alpha. [![Clojars Project](https://img.shields.io/clojars/v/day8.re-frame/trace.svg)](https://clojars.org/day8.re-frame/trace)
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**Status:** Alpha. [![Clojars Project](https://img.shields.io/clojars/v/day8.re-frame/trace.svg)](https://clojars.org/day8.re-frame/trace)
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**Note** [the latest version 0.1.14](https://github.com/Day8/re-frame-trace/releases/tag/0.1.14) ALSO requires the latest version of re-frame itself - `v0.10.3-alpha2`.
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**Note** [the latest version 0.1.14](https://github.com/Day8/re-frame-trace/releases/tag/0.1.14) ALSO requires the latest version of re-frame itself - `v0.10.3-alpha2`.
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### What It Can Do
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### What It Can Do For You
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Here's how it might be helpful to you:
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> The following list is aspirational. `re-frame-trace` remains a WIP. We're getting there.
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1. Help you to learn `re-frame`. If you are new to `re-frame`, it will assist you to
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1. Helps you to learn `re-frame`. If you are new to `re-frame`, it will assist you to
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understand the data flows involved (the dominoes).
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understand the data flows involved (the dominoes).
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2. Helps you to explore and learn an unfamiliar `re-frame` codebase.
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2. Help you to explore and learn an unfamiliar `re-frame` codebase.
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When I click on this "X" button, it shows me what event is `dispatch`-ed
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When I click on this "X" button, it shows me what event is `dispatch`-ed
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and in what namespace the associated event handler is registered. And,
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and in what namespace the associated event handler is registered. And,
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"oh look, that's interesting - four subscriptions recalculated". Etc.
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"oh look, that's interesting - four subscriptions recalculated". Etc.
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3. Helps you with debugging. In particular, it will assist you to write and debug
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3. Help you with debugging. You see an x-Ray of your app's functioning.
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event handlers, which is useful because they hold most of the logic in your `re-frame` apps.
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In particular, it will assist you to write and debug
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event handlers, which is useful because they hold most of the logic in your `re-frame` apps.
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4. Helps you to find performance problems and/or detect where there is
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4. Helps you to find performance problems and/or detect where there is
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unnecessary computation occurring.
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unnecessary computation occurring.
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> This list is aspirational. `re-frame-trace` remains a WIP. We're getting there.
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### Epoch Oriented
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### Epoch Oriented
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`re-frame` applications are computationally regular. First an event happens,
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`re-frame` applications are computationally regular. First an event happens,
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At the end of it, a `re-frame` app lapses into a quiescent state waiting for another
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At the end of it, a `re-frame` app lapses into a quiescent state waiting for another
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event to kick off the next iteration of the same cycle.
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event to kick off the next iteration of the same cycle.
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Each `re-frame` event and its consequent computation forms a discrete "epoch"
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Each `re-frame` event and its consequent computation forms a bounded "epoch"
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which can be inspected, analysed and understood independently of other epochs. This
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which can be inspected, analysed and understood independently of other epochs. This
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tool is epoch-oriented.
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tool is epoch-oriented.
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And, yes, it is something of a "time travel debugger" - you can go backwards
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And, yes, it has "time travel debugger" capabilities - you can go backwards
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and forwards through epochs - but that's really not the most interesting or powerful
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and forwards through epochs - but that's really not the most interesting or powerful
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aspect of what `re-frame-trace` delivers.
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aspect of what `re-frame-trace` delivers.
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In addition, re-frame is as much "data oriented" as it is functional in design.
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In addition, re-frame is as much "data oriented" as it is functional in design.
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It "flows" data, in a loop, through the functions you provide.
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It "flows" data, in a loop, through the functions you provide.
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So, data is at the center of `re-frame-trace`.
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So, data is at the core of `re-frame-trace` and that's a powerful and leverageable substrate.
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### Data Dashboard
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### Data Dashboard
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There's often too much data - too much detail.
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Except, there's often too much data - too much detail.
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So, `re-frame-trace` tries to be something of a "dashboard" in the sense that
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So, `re-frame-trace` tries to be something of a "dashboard" in the sense that
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it tries to turn "raw data" into "information" through curated analysis, and "roll ups"
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it tries to turn "raw data" into "information" through curated analysis, and "roll ups"
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