Why are there no control props for the state management components?

[fea17e86]

I was wondering why components like State, Toggle and Value accept an initial value but don't accept a controling value?

Something like this:

<State state={myState}>
  ...
</State>

Why do you need that? I used State to represent the state of a form, which was initially populated by an object. Next the differrent form components would modify the local State. And in the end that State would be submitted to the remote API. This resulted in an updated object, which then populated the form State again. Because State does not accept changed props I had to write my own component.

My guess was you wanted to skip having to compare states of State to make it work. Or is there more to it?

[TrySound]

If you want to control your components then you don't need intermediate state. Just pass data directly to them. The idea of this project is the same as regular react state: localizing state management where the state shouldn't be lifted. In all other cases you should always lift your state in parent components.

[TrySound]

However there is a trick. To reset component state (any powerplug component) you may pass another key prop. For example

<plug.Input initial={props.receivedFromServerValue} key={props.receivedFromServerValue}>
  {input =>
    <input {...input.bind} />
  }
</plug.Input>

[fea17e86]

If you want to control your components then you don't need intermediate state. Just pass data directly to them. The idea of this project is the same as regular react state: localizing state management where the state shouldn't be lifted. In all other cases you should always lift your state in parent components.

Yes, I thought about that. But with the possibilities of render prop components, parents which exist for state management are disappearing, at least from my code. And at least in the use case that I tackled it would only increase the amount of code, whithout increasing the readability or any other quality indicator. But I do understand that you want to follow a certain set of principles. It keeps the project cleaner.

Thank you for the response!