status-im/re-frame
2
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/status-im/re-frame.git synced 2025-02-23 15:28:09 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

More docs tweaks

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Mike Thompson 2017-07-14 15:53:23 +10:00
parent 4b05fdfa0f
commit b5558d9eb7
1 changed files with 7 additions and 8 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

15
docs/MentalModelOmnibus.md
View File

@ -104,14 +104,12 @@ Sincerely, The Self-appointed President of the Cursor Skeptic's Society.
`Events` are central to re-frame's architecture. Nothing happens without a dispatched event.
Every app will have a different set of `Events`, indeed, part of your job will be to
design exactly the right set of them. For your app, Events will be the "language of the system".
They capture intent - most often user intent. They provide the eloquence.
Every app will have a different `events`, indeed, part of your job will be to
design exactly the right set of them. For your app,`events` will be the "language of the system".
They capture intent (generally the user's intent). They provide the eloquence.
And they are data.
And they have to be "executed".
Here's a collection of events from a drawing app:
```cljs
(def events
@ -124,17 +122,18 @@ Here's a collection of events from a drawing app:
])
```
I'd like you to look upon that collection as you would the following assembler code:
I'd like you to look upon that collection as you would the following assembler:
```asm
mov eax, ebx
sub eax, 216
mov BYTE PTR [ebx], 2
```
Assembler instructions are data, right? They have to be "executed" by a machine.
Assembler instructions are data, right? They have to be "executed" by a machine. I'd
like you to look back at the collection of events above the same way.
> Events are the assembly language of your app. They are instructions. These instructions
are data. One after another gets executed by your functioning app.
are data. One after another gets executed by your functioning app.
> Collectively, the events you design form a Domain Specific Language (DSL). The language of your system.