Hey frontend devs. Are signals just a kind of event emitter?
@heapwolf Like the AbortSignal class in JavaScript?
@mauve no I mean “reactive signals”, it’s a trendy new front end pattern
@heapwolf Ha ha, are we going to get another wave of rxjs type hype? Personally I loved that era.
@mauve seems possible. I guess I’m going to have to code read an implementation of signals to find out if it’s just an event emitter, there are 100000 tuts on how to use them, and none of them say specifically how signals work 😅
@mauve @heapwolf I recently wanted to make a PoC of an idea and I wrote my own minimal jQuery for the front and express router for the back. Zero dependencies, lots of joy. https://github.com/naugtur/timely-tutor
@mauve @heapwolf it surprised me how little I needed to do to get convenience on top of default http module.
I remember my pal wrote a minimal react like renderer that didn't diff but flush everything and it was 1kb 🙂