RichText Trigger onChange on input #4955

youknowriad · 2018-02-08T14:35:51Z

This will be necessary to achieve #4951

It also fixes some issues while the save draft link doesn't show up until we focus out of the component.
It may introduce a difference in a way undo/redo works but I believe we should handle those consistently (it's not the case right now, RichText triggers and undo state per word while PlainText it's per character). I'm thinking we could use the withHistory a Reducer enhancer to group similar changes into one undo level.

Testing instructions

Test several writing flow interactions

aduth · 2018-02-08T14:37:35Z

See: #2758

(Particularly bits about undo history)

ellatrix · 2018-02-08T14:58:21Z

I'm currently rebasing a WIP branch that does the undo signalling with a buffer in the history. I'm also leaving out selection now since it would make it more complex. I feel like we should fix undo together this PR.

ellatrix · 2018-02-08T15:05:54Z

blocks/rich-text/index.js

-
-		// Saving the editor on updates avoid unecessary onChanges calls
-		// These calls can make the focus jump
-		this.editor.save();
 	}

 	setContent( content ) {


I forgot to add content = '' here 🙈

youknowriad · 2018-02-09T10:41:04Z

So from my testing, performance is good enough here but I'd appreciate that other people try it to confirm

Edit: Erratum: On long post it's not good at all, needs further investigation

aduth · 2018-02-09T15:50:38Z

blocks/rich-text/index.js

@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ export default class RichText extends Component {
 		this.getSettings = this.getSettings.bind( this );
 		this.onSetup = this.onSetup.bind( this );
 		this.onChange = this.onChange.bind( this );
+		this.throttledOnChange = throttle( this.onChange.bind( this ), 500 );


If we can, I'd love if we would avoid throttling. Case in point: We're not cancelling a scheduled change when the component unmounts.

Yep, if the performance fix is enough, I'm fine dropping it.

I tried dropping it but I think performance-wise it's slightly better if we keep it

It seems like it always dispatched change when I type the first character. Should we wait until 500ms passes instead?

@youknowriad What can we do to get rid of this? :)

aduth · 2018-02-09T20:51:25Z

@youknowriad I created a branch off of this one which includes an iteration on rememo to improve per-key selector caching.

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/try/weak-map-cache

See: aduth/rememo#1

youknowriad · 2018-02-10T11:42:43Z

@aduth Awesome, I'm not seeing any performance issues any more 👍

On the performance side, maybe instead of using getBlock selector, we could target block properties directly getBlockName, getBlockAttributes, isValidBlock etc... These granular properties are less likely to change compared to the block object which will avoid unnecessary renders in connect calls.

…Equal

youknowriad · 2018-02-12T11:03:17Z

Rebase this with the changes from #5002 it seems better now.

gziolo · 2018-02-12T11:50:36Z

@youknowriad, see https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/5002/files#r167532619, can we bring the polyfill as part of this PR?

gziolo · 2018-02-12T12:05:37Z

blocks/rich-text/index.js

-
-		content = renderToString( content );
-		this.editor.setContent( content );
+	setContent( content = '' ) {


Nice refactoring :)

gziolo · 2018-02-12T12:09:19Z

blocks/rich-text/index.js

-		if ( this.editor.isDirty() ) {
-			this.fireChange();
-		}
+		this.savedContent = this.state.empty ? [] : this.getContent();


@aduth - should we extract [] to its own shared variable to ensure we have always one variable reference to compare with ===? I wanted to double check - you know better all those perf bits. It might not make any sense in this context :)

gziolo · 2018-02-12T12:11:46Z

blocks/rich-text/index.js

-			this.props.value !== this.savedContent &&
-			! isEqual( this.props.value, prevProps.value ) &&
-			! isEqual( this.props.value, this.savedContent )
+			this.props.value !== this.savedContent


It seems like shallow compare is enough here.

…o button)

gziolo · 2018-02-12T13:23:44Z

I played with cmd + Z and noticed a bit strange behavior, the following screencast contains more details shared as I type:

gziolo · 2018-02-12T13:40:14Z

I also recorded another screencast where you can observe how strangely undo behaves:

I'm doing cmd + Z until undo history gets emptied. What's is very unexpected here is that past items don't get removed until the text is completely removed with undo actions...

gziolo · 2018-02-12T13:47:58Z

I'm still able to type something and close the tab without seeing the prompt to save your changes for my draft:

youknowriad · 2018-02-12T14:01:00Z

@gziolo

I can't seem to reproduce these undo issues though granted that it's not perfect, it's not perfect in master and as I said let's explore those separately in Proposal: history "buffer"/overwrite, sync RichText history records #4956 and Try a generic undo handler #4959
About the last screenshot, this is due to the throttle timeout. I think it's fine for now, I don't expect people to close their tab less than 0.5 seconds after editing the post unless they don't want to save these changes :). I'm also hopeful we could get rid of the throttle entirely at some point when we improve rerendering performance event more.

aduth · 2018-02-12T14:07:19Z

I'd be inclined to omitting the throttle from the start to force our hand in addressing the performance issues. 😅

I'll try to take a pass at these today (non-blocking).

gziolo

I tested in enough. Let's merge it and continue in the follow-up PRs as discussed 👍

ellatrix · 2018-02-12T14:30:37Z

blocks/rich-text/index.js

 		) {
 			this.updateContent();
 		}
 	}
-


Removed line break by accident?

ellatrix · 2018-02-12T14:31:25Z

blocks/rich-text/index.js

@@ -508,8 +506,6 @@ export class RichText extends Component {
 				return;
 			}

-			this.fireChange();


Why is this removed?

youknowriad · 2018-02-12T14:41:31Z

I don't know, this was part of one of your commits, I can restore :)

ellatrix · 2018-02-12T14:50:11Z

@youknowriad I think I removed that there assuming changes would be in sync all the time, but with the throttle that wouldn't be the case?

aduth · 2018-02-12T19:56:17Z

Noting that in the course of writing a post with a single paragraph containing only 32 words, I accumulated 71 copies of editor state via undo history (and that this will only grow over the course of writing a post in the same session).

aduth · 2018-02-12T19:58:40Z

Something revealed by this change: Should we be debouncing autosave instead of throttling? It feels as though it saves much more frequently now, since it can occur many times while typing within the same paragraph block.

Debouncing isn't great either, since just because I don't stop typing for X amount of time doesn't mean the post should never save during that time.

Or maybe the autosave should just be made less frequent than every 10 seconds?

aduth · 2018-02-12T20:18:11Z

blocks/rich-text/index.js

@@ -149,6 +151,7 @@ export class RichText extends Component {
 		editor.on( 'BeforeExecCommand', this.maybePropagateUndo );


Did we test to see how TinyMCE's undo history interacts with our own?

Are we calling onChange with the correct value after TinyMCE finishes undo?

Should we be bypassing TinyMCE's undo altogether (also preventing it from accumulating any history)?

@aduth I'm proposing these changes in #4956. Good point about preventing TinyMCE accumulating any history at all. We just need the signals, not the store.

ellatrix · 2018-02-13T10:36:30Z

@aduth I don't mind if we save frequently, but it is quite visually distracting ATM. Sounds like it need to be more subtle, similar to Google Docs. We also have to make sure we don't just pile these changes up as revisions, instead we should maybe reuse the last revision and only create a new revision on a user action or at least way less often (each revision is a post in the DB).

aduth · 2018-02-13T13:11:56Z

We also have to make sure we don't just pile these changes up as revisions

Yeah, this is an ongoing issue unfortunately: #3656

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		editor.on( 'BeforeExecCommand', this.maybePropagateUndo );

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