Hook up to MobX Developer Tools

[camelCaseSharp]

This is mainly a forward looking question about future functionality. Is there a reasonable prospect that Cortex.Net might be hooked up to a browser developer extension such as MobX Developer Tools to enable runtime inspection of Observable state?

If not, are there any API's in Cortex.Net that would enable me to develop a state inspection popup view in my Blazor application to display a snapshot of observable state on-demand?

[jspuij]

Yes, it's in the todo list ;-)

[FieldMarshallVague]

@jspuij This is very interesting. Could you tell me if you were thinking of supporting the Mobx/Redux debugger tools or intended to provide an API for developing them? It wasn't clear from your response.

If it's the former, would we be recommended to use a predictable state structure (like MST, for instance) to aid with the compatibility with them?

I'm very new to these state managers, so apologies if this is a nonsense question. I really wanted to use Mobx over Redux and your implementation seems like the most robust for Blazor. I just want to make sure that replayability is going to be possible (without a major re-write).

[jspuij]

It is going to be possible. However a.t.m. Cortex.Net is unopinionated regarding the structure of its models. Like you suggested, if I want to use the original tools and support them I need at least a tree. I'm not very fond of porting MST and its syntax to C#. It just does not suit it very well. I'll have to come up with something myself for it. (maybe inspired by mobx-keystone, but without all the extra attributes). Anyway, it will come some day ;-)

[FieldMarshallVague]

OK. Interesting. Thanks for letting me know!