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In the 06 - Components lesson, we created the state management code for an
example with a conditions component and two temperature components, temperature:air and
temperature:water.
In this section, we'll wire this up to Mithril.
First, we can use Mithril Stream as a stream library. For our
purposes, it works just like flyd. The only difference is that you call m.stream() instead of
flyd.stream(), and m.stream.scan instead of flyd.scan.
Next, remember that we had an actions object and a states stream:
var actions = app.Actions(update);
states.map(function(state) {
document.write("<pre>" + JSON.stringify(state, null, 2) + "</pre>");
});Now, we'll use m.mount and a minimal Mithril component to render the view. We'll pass the
actions and state attributes to a top-level App component:
m.mount(document.getElementById("app"), {
view: () => m(App, { state: states(), actions })
});We are calling states() to get the latest from the stream and pass it as the state attribute.
With Mithril's auto-redraw system, the view is automatically re-rendered after user interaction.
The App component retrieves state and actions from the passed-in attributes. We pass these on
to other components, in this case Conditions and Temperature. Notice that we have two instances
of Temperature, and we pass a different id to each one.
var App = {
view: function(vnode) {
var { state, actions } = vnode.attrs;
return m("div",
m(Conditions, { state, id: "conditions", actions }),
m(Temperature, { state, id: "temperature:air", actions }),
m(Temperature, { state, id: "temperature:water", actions }),
m("pre", JSON.stringify(state, null, 4))
);
}
};The Conditions component displays a checkbox for "precipitations" and a series of radio butons for
the sky (Sunny, Cloudy, Mix of sun/clouds). The state is used to reflect the current state, and
actions are called to update the state when the user changes the checkbox and radio buttons:
var skyOption = function({ state, id, actions, value, label }) {
return m("label",
m("input", { type: "radio", id: value, name: "sky",
value, checked: state[id].sky === value,
onchange: evt => actions.changeSky(id, evt.target.value)
}),
label
);
};
var Conditions = {
view: function(vnode) {
var { state, id, actions } = vnode.attrs;
return m("div",
m("label",
m("input", {
type: "checkbox",
checked: state[id].precipitations,
onchange: evt =>
actions.togglePrecipitations(id, evt.target.checked)
}),
"Precipitations"
),
m("div",
skyOption({ state, id, actions, value: "SUNNY",
label: "Sunny"}),
skyOption({ state, id, actions, value: "CLOUDY",
label: "Cloudy"}),
skyOption({ state, id, actions, value: "MIX",
label: "Mix of sun/clouds"})
)
);
}
};The Temperature component is similar:
var Temperature = {
view: function(vnode) {
var { state, id, actions } = vnode.attrs;
return m("div",
state[id].label, " Temperature: ",
state[id].value, m.trust("°"), state[id].units,
m("div",
m("button",
{ onclick: () => actions.increment(id, 1) },
"Increment"),
m("button",
{ onclick: () => actions.increment(id,-1) },
"Decrement")
),
m("div",
m("button",
{ onclick: () => actions.changeUnits(id) },
"Change Units")
)
);
}
};You can see the complete example below.
We can wire up Meiosis to Mithril using m.mount and passing state from the latest value of the
states stream, along with actions, to the top-level Mithril component.
Then, all Mithril components in the application are consistent: they all receive state and
actions. When rendering other components, state and actions are passed along. When a component
is used multiple times, or when you want to define the state property outside of the component, you
also pass the id.
Components can then use the state to render the view according to the current application state,
and call actions to trigger changes. Because of Mithril's
auto-redraw system, the view is automatically re-rendered.
Of course, if you trigger state changes outside of Mithril's auto-redraw (see When Mithril does not
redraw) you have to call
m.redraw() yourself.
This concludes the Meiosis tutorial. See 11 - What's Next? for ideas on where to go from here.
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Meiosis is developed by @foxdonut00 / foxdonut and is released under the MIT license.