Yep you should. 
OvermindDL1
tmbb
Currently there is no support for changing “nested assigns”, right? If I have a nested map of things I can only work by replacing the top level assigns, right?
grych
Creator of Drab
tmbb
tmbb
Well, actually I wouldn’t call it a bug, it’s just a feature you might add. And the only reason to do it would be efficiency, as you can do whatever you want just by poking the “top level” assign… It just forces you to change more HTML, riight?
grych
Creator of Drab
tmbb
Hm… Ok, I see the problem. Just a question (please forgive me if it’s kinda dumb). Have you thought of generating the full webpage, sending it to the client and use something like morphdom to patch it inside the browser? Would performance be that bad?
EDIT: if not the whole webpage, at least the outermost HTML component that contains assigns, maybe
grych
Creator of Drab
Rather oposite, I’d like to send the smallest possible amount of html.
Anyway, I am now rebuilding the eex engine from the scratch, there are more issues with existing one.
tmbb
tmbb
Are there any plans for standalone components, like VueJS components?
VueJS components are very useful for complex input widgets (like a datepicker or a location from a map), because the components can encapsulate their (potentially complex) HTML and Javascript and only communicate with the outside with a limited interface (usually an event and an event handler).
This allows you to automatically bind the value of the widget (the date picked by the user, for example) to the Drab store and vice versa.
I know the whole idea of Drab is to avoid javascript, but sometimes it’s unavoidable, and if you can write it (or reuse what someone else has written) once and reuse it later without caring about whether it’s javascript or not it’s great.