Nuxt•10mo ago

Differents watch sources using useState

<script setup lang="ts">
const { find } = useStrapi()

const { offset, search, selectedFilter } = useTableParams()

const { data: campaigns } = await useAsyncData(
  'campaigns',
  () => find<Campaign>('campaigns', {
    pagination: offset.value
  }),
  {
    transform: (data: Strapi4ResponseMany<Campaign>) => {
      pagination.value = data.meta.pagination as MetaResponsePaginationByPage
      return data.data
    },
    // ! Here I'm giving offset.value for useState global reactive var that "hosts" an object
    // ! But for simple global variables like string, I have to give the reactive part (ok)
    // ? why ?
    watch: [offset.value, search, selectedFilter] 
  })
</script>

<script setup lang="ts">
const { find } = useStrapi()

const { offset, search, selectedFilter } = useTableParams()

const { data: campaigns } = await useAsyncData(
  'campaigns',
  () => find<Campaign>('campaigns', {
    pagination: offset.value
  }),
  {
    transform: (data: Strapi4ResponseMany<Campaign>) => {
      pagination.value = data.meta.pagination as MetaResponsePaginationByPage
      return data.data
    },
    // ! Here I'm giving offset.value for useState global reactive var that "hosts" an object
    // ! But for simple global variables like string, I have to give the reactive part (ok)
    // ? why ?
    watch: [offset.value, search, selectedFilter] 
  })
</script>

export const useTableParams = () => {
  const offset = useState('offset', () => ({
    page: 1,
    pageSize: 5,
    withCount: true
  }))

  const search = useState('search', () => '')
  const selectedFilter = useState('selectedFilter', () => 'all')

  return { offset, selectedFilter, search }
}

export const useTableParams = () => {
  const offset = useState('offset', () => ({
    page: 1,
    pageSize: 5,
    withCount: true
  }))

  const search = useState('search', () => '')
  const selectedFilter = useState('selectedFilter', () => 'all')

  return { offset, selectedFilter, search }
}

Any ideas for my case ? I'm just asking why I need to watch for offset.value in my useAsyncData() (which is a global reactive object created with useState) and why I don't need it to for other variables (like number or string...) What are the differences between simple primitive types that I don't see ? I'm pretty sure it's for you, @manniL / TheAlexLichter 👋🏼😁 Thanks y'all ❤️

15 Replies

Cheaterman•10mo ago

Don't ping people randomly, it's rude Other than that what happens if you return a ref

KuroroOP•10mo ago

Hm? Alex is saying « feel free to ping on discord » on his YouTube channel… I ping him because he treats reactivity problems on his last video, it’s not random

Cheaterman•10mo ago

OK - answer my question though

KuroroOP•10mo ago

Where would you return a ref?

Cheaterman•10mo ago

In the useState initializer, as per the docs

useState('mything', () => ref({something: 'something_else'}));

useState('mything', () => ref({something: 'something_else'}));

Basically just add ref before your current brackets In fact I just realized this probably won't change much since you're currently using .value ; rather than ref() you may want to try reactive() to get rid of .value Did it work?

KuroroOP•10mo ago

I can’t test currently, will tell you asap

manniL•10mo ago

I feel setting the pagination value in transform is "wrong" 🤔 But a running repro would be better

KuroroOP•10mo ago

It's not. I'm maybe wrong, but i think useState is already returning a Ref, so i don't get it when you talk about specifying a ref/reactive in useState (make it nosense for me, but, once again, i'm maybe wrong) And, if you find the docs page where it's specified, i would be happy to see it.

KuroroOP•10mo ago

Oh ok, I probably shouldn't do assignation here... Strapi API returns an object with two keys, trying to deal with it without wrapping my useAsyncData in a function... maybe should I ? there's a minimal repro with a dummy API, but it reproduces my behavior : https://stackblitz.com/edit/nuxt-starter-cicj7t?file=components%2FTodosTable.vue See comments in TodosTable.vue 🙂

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Can't trigger the useAsyncData function each time I change my composable Composable is well updated, but the query is never re-triggered

Cheaterman•10mo ago

Doesn't mean that you shouldn't try it 🙂 this works for me:

export const useTableParams = () => {
  const limit = useState('params.limit', () => 2);

  const search = useState('search', () => '');

  return { params: reactive({ limit }), search };
};

export const useTableParams = () => {
  const limit = useState('params.limit', () => 2);

  const search = useState('search', () => '');

  return { params: reactive({ limit }), search };
};

Not quite what I anticipated but at least it gets the job done The relevant doc page: https://nuxt.com/docs/api/composables/use-state It reads:

init: A function that provides initial value for the state when not initiated. This function can also return a Ref.

IDK if it means it has to return a ref to be reactive but... here we are Either way I know it's complicated and hard to make sense of, don't worry you'll eventually get there 🙂 Just give it some time I suppose haha

KuroroOP•10mo ago

Ahah thanks! That's the first time I see this kind of trick. It wouldn't be the best case in my opinion, because we're obliged to define each property of the object into different variables, It feels a bit hacky no? Anyway, thanks for your time As I said in my repro, I got it working too, but, i'm really looking for a technical explanation & why not, have an advice on the best way to go ! 🙂

Cheaterman•10mo ago

So, I think it's not "bad" to have one property per variable, because that's kind of why Vue has fine-grained reactivity etc 😄 As to why you want to use .value, I believe it's because otherwise you're not observing the proxy object for changes, you're observing a ref to it which itself isn't changing unless you re-assign a whole object ie less params.limit = xyz and more params = {...params, limit: xyz} But that's just a guess (might not be exactly correct but it's a mental model that "works" for me)

KuroroOP•10mo ago

mhh ok I get it, but isn't it a bit strange if we have to manage a larger object? To be precise, in my original codebase, i'm dealing with two kind of types, an object type and a primitive type (string/number/whatever). As you can see, types returned by useState are the same (Ref<T> if I can put it that way) So, thats why I was wondering why I should use .value for the object part, and shouldn't for primitive part

KuroroOP•10mo ago

As you can see in screenshots, IDE is not really explicit... maybe should I log them to see further

Cheaterman•10mo ago

I don't think IDE is going to help 😦 And I expected reactive() to help change that ref into something that can be observed without .value, but it didn't work That's why I gave you the solution where each individual property of the object is a ref 🙂 Might not be ideal but it does "make sense" IMHO Either that or you can go back to your original solution with .value - it does save some typing

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