okulary

A faster Atom and DerivedAtom impl for clojurescript.

{:deps {funcool/okulary {:mvn/version "2022.04.11-16"}}}

Atom

Is a Faster (mainly related to watcher handling) implementation of Atom reference type (of clojurescript).

(require '[okulary.core :as ol])

(def myatom (ol/atom 0))

@myatom
;; => 0

It behaves almost identically to the default builtin atom. Just dispatches the watchers much faster. being faster don't mean better than the default one. The implementation of this library has tradeoffs:

• Only supports keys as strings or JavaScript Symbols. Using anything different is considered undefined behaviour.
• Validators are not supported.
• Does not implements IMeta protocol.

The main use case for this implementation is for situations where you have a huge amount of watchers and you want watcher dispatching very fast.

Derived Atom

The DerivedAtom is like a read-only cursor, and can derive from the atom defined in this library or any that implements the IWatchable protocol (clojurescript builtin Atom as example).

(def a1 (ol/atom {:a 1 :b 1}))
(def d1 (ol/derived :a a1))

@a1
;; => {:a 1 :b 1}

@d1
;; => 1

The relevant features of DerivedAtom's:

• They don't need resource management. If no watcher is attached the selector function will not be executed and this will not add overhead.
• If the source value is the same, selector will be omited and a cached value will be used.
• Only attaches 1 watcher to the parent atom-like independently of the number of watchers this derived atom will have.
• The watchers on derived atom will be called only if the value is changed using the identical? equality check (you can provide your own equality function as third argument to derived).
• Selector will be called twice on each change of the parent atom-like reference when no local cache is found and once when a cache is available.