How To: React + Roblox

[HealthyKarl]

@HealthyKarl

If React moves away from Redux. Assuming the same would be for react-lua. What will or is going to be the new solution that acts as the alternative?

This is what I’m wondering about. As, I don’t have the newest source of all the available Plugins in Studio, and some yet need to be put into the new Developer Framework, which is still in progress.

Is it just createContext ?

Probably is React.createContext.

Now, what I’ve observed while editing a older AnimationClipEditor version that used Roact and Rodux.

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/how-the-animationclipeditor-could-look-like-with-multi-rig-support-demonstration/2984867

 

It contained a MainProvider that created rhings that contained the word “Context” which put stuff inside _context with Symbols. Rodux’s guide doesn’t even contain this, it just says to use Rodux.StoreProvider.

But regardless there’s a new thing that I am not sure about now.

 

For the older version of the AnimationClipEditor, I split up the Rodux Stores and forced them to sync their data together through middlewares with :dispatch. While, this doesn’t sound good… it worked…

But the thing is, I only had to middleware, a few Action types only. But I don’t believe there’s a good way to communicate with multiple stores, especially for inheriting or syncing values. Syncing values does sound bad though.

But there wasn’t a clean way, and now I am wondering about what React has.

 

I haven’t explored React’s way yet. MainProvider in AnimationClipEditor was too dank for me, because it wanted to use ContextItem stuff. So, I had to use Rodux.StoreProvider anyways to proceed, and store all the stores in a table.