Concepts

Concepts

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This section explains the core concepts behind DxMessaging. Concepts are the foundational ideas and mental models that inform how you design and structure your messaging—understanding these will help you make better architectural decisions and avoid common pitfalls.

Start Here

• Mental-Model — How to think about DxMessaging. Covers the philosophy, the three message types with analogies, tokens and lifecycle, and when to use what. Read this first.

Core Concepts

• Message-Types — Deep dive into Untargeted, Targeted, and Broadcast messages with code examples and decision guides.

• Targeting-And-Context — How DxMessaging uses GameObjects and Components as message context, and the role of InstanceId.

• Listening-Patterns — All the ways to receive messages: targeted, untargeted, broadcast, and "without targeting/source" patterns.

• Interceptors-And-Ordering — Control message flow with priorities, post-processors, and interceptors.

Quick Reference

Concept	One-Line Summary
[[Mental-Model	Mental Model]]
[[Message-Types	Message Types]]
[[Targeting-And-Context	Targeting]]
[[Listening-Patterns	Listening]]
[[Interceptors-And-Ordering	Ordering]]

Related Sections

• ..-Getting-Started — Hands-on walkthrough
• ..-Guides-Patterns — Practical patterns and recipes
• ..-Reference-Reference — API documentation