LiveComponent/LiveView API Design Question about surface HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @paultannenbaum!

why handle_event methods on Surface.{LiveComponent, LiveView} dont use bracket notation the same way Surface.Component does?

They do :)

Component properties (no matter in what type of component) can either receive a literal like "hide" or an expression like {{ @hideEvent }}, where @hideEvent is just syntactic sugar for assigns.hideEvent.

The golden rule is:

• Use {{...}} to pass expressions i.e., code that will be evaluated at runtime (any valid Elixir expression is accepted)
• Use "..." to pass literal strings.

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Thanks for the reply. That makes sense, I guess where I was thrown off is the magic that is happening in a click attribute, where passing it a string invokes the message that ultimately calls the callback function of the string literal, which to be fair is what is happening in phoenix-liveview.

Is there a slack or discord channel for the development of this project? I'd be happy to pick up a couple of these issues, but would want to discuss designs before opening up a PR

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Hey @paultannenbaum!

Is there a slack or discord channel for the development of this project?

Not yet. Sorry. I'll consider doing that when we have more contributors :)

I'd be happy to pick up a couple of these issues, but would want to discuss designs before opening up a PR

That's awesome! Feel free to drop any question you might have on any existing issue or open new ones if you need. If at some point we need to have a chat, we can arrange that too.

Cheers.

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