We need your help to develop Signals!

[littledan]

There's a lot that you all can do to help, including:

• Try out signals within your framework or application
• Improve the documentation/learning materials for signals
• Document use cases (whether it's something the API supports well or not)
• Write more tests, e.g., by porting them from other signal implementations Add more tests for signals #70
• Port other signal implementations to this API
• Write benchmarks for signals, both synthetic and real-world application ones Benchmarks for signal implementations  #71
• File issues on polyfill bugs, your design thoughts, etc.
• Development reactive data structures/state management abstractions on top of signals
• Implement signals natively in a JS engine (behind a flag/in a PR, not shipped!)

[NullVoxPopuli]

I'm making a utility library here: https://github.com/NullVoxPopuli/signal-utils

The implementations and tests are going to be ports from other ecosystems 🎉
I can also use this repo's tests to see how changes to the polyfill over time affect things!

Current structures / utils:

• SignalArray
• SignalObject
• SignalMap
• SignalWeakMap
• SignalSet
• SignalWeakSet
• SignalAsyncData / load -- provides reactive signal-states for the phases and results of a promise
• signalFunction -- reactive automatic and lazy async function invocation
• localCopy -- fork remote state
• @signal turn any property on a class into a transparent Signal.State
• @cached turn any getter on a class into a transparent Signal.Computed
• @localCopy alternate way to fork remote state in classes -- idk what's better

[quantuminformation]

Cool, I'll try it out here soon: https://github.com/quantuminformation/vanillajs-patterns

[ed-puckett]

I'm failing to get the example code shown in the readme to work (section: "Using signals"). This is the counter/isEven/parity example, and I am using the effect.js implementation shown there, too (section "Creating a simple effect"). I'm using node 21.7.3.

The problem is that the effect() callback is never run (except for the initial time). What am I doing wrong?

Note: I added a console.log() to the setInterval callback to make sure it is being called and, yes, it is, but no corresponding output from the effect() callback.

Note: I get the same behavior when using the signal-polyfill package from npm, or when directly using the polyfill built from this repository's packages/signal-polyfill subdirectory.

PS very excited about this, and looking forward to getting it to work!

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UPDATE:
I got this to work after changing the given example code for effect.js:

1. changed initialization of needsEnqueue from false to true
2. changed queueMicrotask.enqueue(...) to queueMicrotask(...)

Would it be possible to update the readme example?

[NullVoxPopuli]

Would it be possible to update the readme example?

of course!
would you like to submit a PR?
We also have a working example of the microtaskqueue effect here: https://github.com/proposal-signals/signal-utils/blob/main/src/subtle/microtask-effect.ts