Yehuda Katz

Yehuda Katz

Over the years, Yehuda has worked on a number of open source projects, including Ruby on Rails, jQuery and Rust. He also created some of his own, including Handlebars, Ember.js and Cargo (Rust's package manager). At the moment, he's working on a new library that extracts the best part's of Ember's auto-tracking reactivity system into a package that you can use in any UI framework. That's what this talk is about!
Build a Universal Reactive Data Library with Starbeam
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
66 min
Build a Universal Reactive Data Library with Starbeam
WorkshopFree
This session will focus on Starbeam's universal building blocks. We'll use Starbeam to build a data library that works in multiple frameworks.We'll write a library that caches and updates data, and supports relationships, sorting and filtering.Rather than fetching data directly, it will work with asynchronously fetched data, including data fetched after initial render. Data fetched and updated through web sockets will also work well.All of these features will be reactive, of course.Imagine you filter your data by its title, and then you update the title of a record to match the filter: any output relying on the filtered data will update to reflect the updated filter.In 90 minutes, you'll build an awesome reactive data library and learn a powerful new tool for building reactive systems. The best part: the library works in any framework, even though you don't think about (or depend on) any framework when you built it.
Table of contents- Storing a Fetched Record in a Cell- Storing multiple records in a reactive Map- Reactive iteration is normal iteration- Reactive filtering is normal filtering- Fetching more records and updating the Map- Reactive sorting is normal sorting (is this getting a bit repetitive?)- Modelling cache invalidation as data- Bonus: reactive relationships
Announcing Starbeam: Universal Reactivity
JSNation 2022JSNation 2022
27 min
Announcing Starbeam: Universal Reactivity
Starbeam is a library for building reactive data systems that integrate natively with UI frameworks such as React, Vue, Svelte or Ember. In this talk, Yehuda will announce Starbeam. He will cover the motivation for the library, and then get into the details of how Starbeam reactivity works, and most importantly, how you can use it to build reactive libraries today that will work natively in any UI framework. If you're really adventurous, he will also talk about how you could use Starbeam in an existing app using your framework of choice and talk about the benefits of using Starbeam as the state management system in your application.