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## Status
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re-frame is still Alpha. But getting closer. Make sure you are using v0.5.0 of reagent.
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re-frame is still Alpha. But getting closer.
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Be sure you use v0.5.0 of reagent.
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Todo:
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- implement pure event handlers. A macro will be needed.
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But don't be fooled, it is also delightfully powerful, and created to handle more complex applications.
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## Correct Acronym?
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re-frame isn't MVC. Or MVVM. Or MVP. Or any of those.
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But, "Mike", you say, "I've read the document and there's clearly a 'V' bit and
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there's a layer which is
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'C' related, and definitely an 'M'. How can it not be MVC?"
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Yeah, but none of these bits are objects, they are pure functions, and
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and they are all wired together via reactive data flows. It is just such a different
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paradigm from
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traditional MVC (Trust me, I've programmed MVC in Smalltalk, and a lot of pale imitations since).
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Calling it MVC would just be confusing. We need something else.
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Perhaps it is a RACES framework - Reactive-Atom Component Event
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Subscription framework (I love the smell of acronym in the morning).
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Or, if we distill the essence, DDATWD - Derived Data All The Way Down.
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## Buzzword Compliance
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@ -90,6 +72,28 @@ is the root of all evil). And how does the V bit source data?
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We wondered: what should the rest of the architecture look like? So we read up on [Flux], [Pedestal App],
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[Hoplon], [OM], [Elm], etc and slowly re-frame emerged.
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## Correct Acronym?
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So, re-frame really isn't MVC. Or MVVM. Or MVP. Or any of those.
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But, "Mike", you say, "I've read the document once and there's clearly a 'V' bit and
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there's a layer which is
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'C' related, and definitely an 'M'. How can it not be MVC?"
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Yeah, but none of these bits are objects, they are pure functions, and
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and they are all wired together via reactive data flows. It is just such a different
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paradigm from
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traditional MVC (Trust me, I've programmed MVC in Smalltalk, and a lot of pale imitations since).
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Calling it MVC would just be confusing. We need an alternative.
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Perhaps it is a RACES framework - Reactive-Atom Component Event
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Subscription framework (I love the smell of acronym in the morning).
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Or, if we distill to a pure essence, DDATWD - Derived Data All The Way Down.
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## Nothing New
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Nothing about re-frame is original or clever. You'll find
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semantics would object to me describing re-frame as having FRP-nature. They'd claim that it does something
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quite different from pure FRP, which is true.
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But, these days, FRP seems to have become a "big tent" (a broad church?).
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But, these days, FRP seems to have become a ["big tent" (a broad church?)](http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2012/vub-soft-tr-12-13.pdf).
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Broad enough perhaps that re-frame can be in the far, top, left paddock of the tent, via a string of
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qualifications like: re-frame has "discrete, asynchronous, push FRP-ish-nature" without "glitch free" guarantees.
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(Surprisingly, "glitch" has specific meaning in FRP).
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going further (certainly read the first):
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- [reactive programming backgrounder](https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754)
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- [presentation (video)](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ClojureScript-Javelin) by Alan Dipert (co-author of Hoplon)
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- [2012 taxonomy and survey](http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2012/vub-soft-tr-12-13.pdf)
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- [serious pants thesis](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/files/archived/Czaplicki.pdf)
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- [serious pants Elm thesis](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/files/archived/Czaplicki.pdf)
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And for the love of all that is good, please watch this lovely simple
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[StrangeLoop presentation ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0) (40 mins). Watch what happens
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