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Experiment: Replicate Navigation block using directives #44509

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@luisherranz luisherranz commented Sep 27, 2022

What?

Coauthored with @SantosGuillamot and @DAreRodz.

This is a continuation of the #44289 experiment to switch from micromodal + imperative code to declarative directives.

Why?

We are experimenting with different hydration mechanisms, and this is one of them. If you're interested in block hydration, please join the Block Hydration Experiments repository 🙂

How?

For now, we have copied the code of the Directives hydration and are trying to copy the functionality of the Alpine directives that @SantosGuillamot used in #44289.

The idea is that Gutenberg could provide all the JS code that's added here. The navigation block would only have to add the directives to the markup in PHP.

This is still very preliminary. We'll keep adding functionality in the next few days.

@luisherranz luisherranz changed the title Experiment/navigation block with wordpress directives Experiment: Replicate Navigation block using vDOM-based directives Sep 27, 2022
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luisherranz commented Sep 27, 2022

I've tried renaming view.js to another thing because the diffing of that file here in GH makes no sense, but I can't make it work. If someone knows how to do it, please let me know. I gave up 🙂

EDIT: This is what I tried: 13da68a

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I've tried renaming view.js to another thing because the diffing of that file here in GH makes no sense, but I can't make it work. If someone knows how to do it, please let me know. I gave up 🙂

EDIT: This is what I tried: 13da68a

When you change the name of that file, it stops being considered an entry point, even when you run Webpack again. It may be related to how entry points are computed. 👀 🤔

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I've updated the directives to match the latest version on BHE.

I've also added some preliminary support for prefix/suffix in the directive name using :. Now you can use wp-on:click, although it doesn't support multiple ones in the same element yet. We need to think if we should call the directive callback once with an array of the directive values, or once for each directive value.

I added some initial support for modifiers, but I removed it afterward because P/React don't have modifiers, and I'd prefer to first try how it feels to use arrays/objects of options to keep the implementation as simple as possible.

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luisherranz commented Sep 29, 2022

I added preliminary support for wp-class:some-class="..." to toggle classes on and off. I prefer the Svelte-based syntax because it lets you add multiple directives, each own with its own logic but, as with everything, it's up for discussion 🙂

The camelcase renaming of the suffix it's not working here, so we need to think about that as well.

Screen.Capture.on.2022-09-29.at.17-53-16.mp4

EDIT: I've removed the camelcasing in the suffix for now.

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By the way, for anyone wondering why we are not using arrow functions instead of regular functions, WordPress breaks when it finds the > of the arrow in the HTML because it thinks that the <button opening tag should be closed:

<button wp-class:some-class="({ context }) => context.open">

It should be easy to fix. Although, again, I'm not sure if we should allow this type of JS inlining or not.

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luisherranz commented Sep 30, 2022

Some of the next steps here:

  • Figure out an API to deal with multiple directive declarations for things like wp-on:..., wp-class:..., wp-bind:...
  • Figure out how to pass a reference to the element for things like focus (wp-focus-trap).
  • Switch from useState to signals.
  • Create the wp-context component
  • Add wp-bind:attr directive.
  • Get rid of eval by moving expressions to a namespaced store.
  • Add directive priorities (i.e, wp-context should run before other directives).

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luisherranz commented Sep 30, 2022

I'm going to try a new API:

  1. Join wp, props, element, ref... together in the same object, but keep props in their own props property (don't spread them).
  2. Rename wp to directives, to see how it feels.
  3. Remove the camelcasing, to see how it feels.
  4. Convert all the directives to objects where the part after the colon (:) is the key. If there's no colon, the key is default.

Something like this:

<div
  wp-class="...1..."
  wp-class:some-class="...2..."
  wp-class:other-class="...3..."
>
  ...
</div>

Will end up in with this object shape:

{
  "class": {
    "default": "...1...",
    "some-class": "...2...",
    "other-class": "...3..."
  }
}

This new API makes wp-prefix:suffix the default format and opens the door for adding multiple directives for any directive, even for things like wp-effect or wp-init:

<div
  wp-effect:log-some-value="({ context }) => console.log(context.someValue)"
  wp-effect:fetch-something="() => fetch(...)"
>
  ...
</div>

Directives that should only contain one expression can ignore everything but the default key.

It's not really needed, we just added previously to test things
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I've made a video summary of the current status for anyone interested:

https://www.loom.com/share/d97d31d4b6cb447a8ff6d72bb78fbe7c

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I've created a minimalistic implementation of a deep preact signal: Gist, Stackblitz. I'll test it out on Monday 🙂

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SantosGuillamot commented Oct 3, 2022

Thanks for the video! Love where the experiment is going ☺️

I've tried renaming view.js to another thing because the diffing of that file here in GH makes no sense, but I can't make it work. If someone knows how to do it, please let me know. I gave up 🙂

EDIT: This is what I tried: 13da68a

Regarding this: If I am not mistaken, the viewScript files have to start with view*, so that could be the issue. At least is what I understood in this code. If that's the case, I guess we could improve the regex to cover other names.

Btw, we don't need to enqueue the view-modal anymore, right?

Apart from that, I was thinking of making some changes to start using the render property as I feel the code could be easier to read. Could that be a problem somehow? Maybe this is a bit complex and not worthy.

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Apart from that, I was thinking of making some changes to start using the render property as I feel the code could be easier to read. Could that be a problem somehow? Maybe this is a bit complex and not worthy.

That would be very interesting. Maybe in a different PR? 🙂

Btw, we don't need to enqueue the view-modal anymore, right?

True. Fixed, thanks.

Regarding this: If I am not mistaken, the viewScript files have to start with view*, so that could be the issue. At least is what I understood in this code. If that's the case, I guess we could improve the regex to cover other names.

I think I tried with a different name starting with view, but I'll try again. Thanks 🙂


I've switched from useState (immutable object) to deep signals (mutable object).

I had to introduce a tick function similar to Vue/Svelte because the new useSignalEffect function doesn't seem to wait until the changes have been applied to the DOM. I opened an issue in the Preact signals repository to see if this can be fixed.

Other than that, it's working fine 🙂

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  • I've added preliminary support for client components (<wp-something>) components. They can't output markup yet (more about that here).
  • I've added the wp-bind:attr directive.

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For some reason, it's enqueuing wp-element (and all its dependencies). I won't debug it as it's not important at this moment. Maybe it's just because of the JSX transform.

The current size is 9.1Kb. It's not the final size, but it shouldn't grow that much. This already includes: preact, preact/hooks and @preact/signals. Although it doesn't include preact/compat, which would add another 5Kbs more or less. But maybe we can avoid it.

I've refactored it a bit into its own folder. I hope that way can be understood better.

I'll try to move the expressions to the view.js file to remove the usage of eval and see how it feels.

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I've moved the logic to the view.js file to avoid using eval. This is all the JS that the navigation block would have to write:

wpx({
  core: {
    navigation: {
      openMenu: ({ context: { navigation } }) => {
        navigation.open = true;
        navigation.previousElementWithFocus = window.document.activeElement;
      },
      closeMenu: ({ context: { navigation } }) => {
        navigation.open = false;
      },
      isMenuOpen: ({ context: { navigation } }) => navigation.open,
      isMenuClosed: ({ context: { navigation } }) => !navigation.open,
      addFirstElementToContext: ({ context: { navigation }, ref }) => {
        navigation.firstMenuElement = ref;
      },
      focusFirstElement: async ({ context: { navigation }, tick }) => {
        if (navigation.open) {
          await tick(); // We need to wait until the DOM is updated.
          navigation.firstMenuElement.focus();
        }
      },
      focusLastFocusedElement: ({ context: { navigation } }) => {
        if (!navigation.open && navigation.previousElementWithFocus)
          navigation.previousElementWithFocus.focus();
      },
    },
  },
});

I'm going to stop working on this for now, but feel free to continue adding features, trying different developer experiences or sharing your feedback about all this.

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Apart from that, I was thinking of making some changes to start using the render property as I feel the code could be easier to read.

Regarding this, I decided to publish the pull request where I was testing it, in case it is helpful somehow in the future. As I say there, I just replicated the sprintf of the responsive navigation menu, because it is the one we are modifying, and didn't check the whole code.

@SantosGuillamot SantosGuillamot changed the title Experiment: Replicate Navigation block using vDOM-based directives Experiment: Replicate Navigation block using directives Jan 11, 2023
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This won't be needed once this is merged: preactjs/signals#290

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Closing now that the Navigation block is already using directives in Gutenberg.

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