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201 lines
7.5 KiB
Clojure
201 lines
7.5 KiB
Clojure
(ns reagentdemo.news.async
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(:require [reagent.core :as r]
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[reagentdemo.syntax :as s]
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[sitetools.core :as tools :refer [link]]
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[reagentdemo.common :as common :refer [demo-component]]))
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(def url "/news/reagent-is-async.html")
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(def title "Faster by waiting")
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(def ns-src (s/syntaxed "(ns example
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(:require [reagent.core :as r]))"))
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(defn timing-wrapper [f]
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(let [start-time (r/atom nil)
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render-time (r/atom nil)
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now #(.now js/Date)
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start #(reset! start-time (now))
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stop #(reset! render-time (- (now) @start-time))
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timed-f (with-meta f
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{:component-will-mount start
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:component-will-update start
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:component-did-mount stop
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:component-did-update stop})]
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(fn []
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[:div
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[:p [:em "render time: " @render-time "ms"]]
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[timed-f]])))
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(def base-color (r/atom {:red 130 :green 160 :blue 120}))
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(def ncolors (r/atom 20))
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(def random-colors (r/atom nil))
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(defn to-rgb [{:keys [red green blue]}]
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(let [hex #(str (if (< % 16) "0")
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(-> % js/Math.round (.toString 16)))]
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(str "#" (hex red) (hex green) (hex blue))))
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(defn tweak-color [{:keys [red green blue]}]
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(let [rnd #(-> (js/Math.random) (* 256))
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tweak #(-> % (+ (rnd)) (/ 2) js/Math.floor)]
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{:red (tweak red) :green (tweak green) :blue (tweak blue)}))
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(defn reset-random-colors [color]
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(reset! random-colors
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(repeatedly #(-> color tweak-color to-rgb))))
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(defn color-choose [color-part]
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[:div.color-slider
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(name color-part) " " (color-part @base-color)
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[:input {:type "range" :min 0 :max 255
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:value (color-part @base-color)
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:on-change (fn [e]
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(swap! base-color assoc
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color-part (-> e .-target .-value int))
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(reset-random-colors @base-color))}]])
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(defn ncolors-choose []
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[:div.color-slider
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"number of color divs " @ncolors
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[:input {:type "range" :min 0 :max 500
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:value @ncolors
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:on-change #(reset! ncolors (-> % .-target .-value int))}]])
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(defn color-plate [color]
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[:div.color-plate
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{:style {:background-color color}}])
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(defn palette []
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(let [color @base-color
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n @ncolors]
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[:div
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[:p "base color: "]
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[color-plate (to-rgb color)]
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[:div.color-samples
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[:p n " random matching colors:"]
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(map-indexed (fn [k v]
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^{:key k} [color-plate v])
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(take n @random-colors))]]))
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(defn color-demo []
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(reset-random-colors @base-color)
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(fn []
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[:div
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[:h2 "Matching colors"]
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[color-choose :red]
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[color-choose :green]
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[color-choose :blue]
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[ncolors-choose]
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[timing-wrapper palette]]))
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(defn main [{:keys [summary]}]
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(let [om-article {:href "http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs/"}]
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[:div.reagent-demo
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[:h1 [link {:href url} title]]
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[:span "2014-01-30"]
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[:div.demo-text
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[:h2 "Reagent gets async rendering"]
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[:p "Reagent already separates state from components. Now they
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are also separated in time."]
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[:p "From version 0.3.0, changes in application state (as
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represented by Reagent’s " [:code "atom"] "s) are no longer
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rendered immediately to the DOM. Instead, Reagent waits until
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the browser is ready to repaint the window, and then all the
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changes are rendered in one single go."]
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(if summary
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[link {:href url
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:class 'news-read-more} "Read more"]
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[:div.demo-text
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[:p "This is good for all sorts of reasons:"]
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[:ul
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[:li "Reagent doesn't have to spend time doing renderings
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that no one would ever see (because changes to application
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state happened faster than the browser could repaint)."]
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[:li "If two or more atoms are changed simultaneously, this
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now leads to only one re-rendering, and not two."]
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[:li "The new code does proper batching of renderings even
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when changes to atoms are done outside of event
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handlers (which is great for e.g core.async users)."]
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[:li "Repaints can be synced by the browser with for example
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CSS transitions, since Reagent uses requestAnimationFrame
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to do the batching. That makes for example animations
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smoother."]]
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[:p "In short, Reagent renders less often, but at the right
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times. For a much better description of why async rendering
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is good, see David Nolen’s " [:a om-article "excellent
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explanation here."]]
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[:h2 "The bad news"]
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[:p "Lunches in general tend to be non-free, and this is no
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exception… The downside to async rendering is that you can no
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longer depend on changes to atoms being immediately available
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in the DOM. (Actually, you couldn’t before either, since
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React.js itself does batching inside event handlers.)"]
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[:p "This may make testing a bit more verbose: you now have
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to call " [:code "reagent.core/flush"] " to force Reagent to
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synchronize state with the DOM."]
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[:h2 "An example"]
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[:p "Here is an example to (hopefully) demonstrate the
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virtues of async rendering. It consists of a simple color
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chooser (three sliders to set the red, green and blue
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components of a base color), and shows the base color + a
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bunch of divs in random matching colors. As soon as the base
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color is changed, a new set of random colors is shown."]
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[:p "If you change one of the base color components, the base
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color should change immediately, and smoothly (on my Macbook
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Air, rendering takes around 2ms, with 20 colored divs
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showing)."]
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[:p "But perhaps more interesting is to see what happens when
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the updates can’t be made smoothly (because the browser
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simply cannot re-render the colored divs quickly enough). On
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my machine, this starts to happen if I change the number of
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divs shown to above 150 or so."]
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[:p "As you increase the number of divs, you’ll notice that
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the base color no longer changes quite so smoothly when you
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move the color sliders."]
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[:p "But the crucial point is that the sliders "
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[:strong "still work"] ". Without async rendering, you could
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quickly get into a situation where the browser hangs for a
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while, doing updates corresponding to an old state. "]
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[:p "With async rendering, the only thing that happens is
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that the frame rate goes down."]
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[:p "Btw, I find it quite impressive that React manages to
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change 500 divs (12 full screens worth) in slightly more than
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40ms. And even better: when I change the number of divs
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shown, it only takes around 6ms to re-render the color
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palette (because the individual divs don’t have to be
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re-rendered, divs are just added or removed from the DOM as
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needed)."]
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[demo-component
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{:comp color-demo
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:src [:pre
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ns-src
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(s/src-of [:timing-wrapper :base-color :ncolors
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:random-colors :to-rgb :tweak-color
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:reset-random-colors :color-choose
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:ncolors-choose :color-plate
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:palette :color-demo])]}]])]]))
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(tools/register-page url [#'main] title)
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