I have just tried the BasicApp in a codesandbox, one question I have,
Why should I use a component's name as a string, instead of referring to it as to an object?
e.g. there's field component: "Form",
so how do I know what's the name of the component that will be used?
I can import a component via import { Form } from 'mson-react'
but when I use it as component: Form, // this doesn't work
Using strings is very error-prone, you can't check if the name is correct, so things might not render, and you don't know why.
The error that appears on wrong naming is const app = compiler.newComponent({
____________________^
Great question! If we were to use objects instead of strings, the definition would be JS and not JSON. By keeping it JSON there is native support for many things like storing JSON in a DB. Moreover, there are tons of tools that work with JSON that we can leverage, eg JSON editors, YAML to JSON converters, etc...
The MSON compiler attempts to validate some of these values (types) upfront. It wouldn't be too difficult to run the MSON compiler as a linter.
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I have just tried the BasicApp in a codesandbox, one question I have,
Why should I use a component's name as a string, instead of referring to it as to an object?
e.g. there's field
component: "Form",so how do I know what's the name of the component that will be used?
I can import a component via
import { Form } from 'mson-react'but when I use it as
component: Form, // this doesn't workUsing strings is very error-prone, you can't check if the name is correct, so things might not render, and you don't know why.
The error that appears on wrong naming is
const app = compiler.newComponent({____________________^
Great question! If we were to use objects instead of strings, the definition would be JS and not JSON. By keeping it JSON there is native support for many things like storing JSON in a DB. Moreover, there are tons of tools that work with JSON that we can leverage, eg JSON editors, YAML to JSON converters, etc...
The MSON compiler attempts to validate some of these values (types) upfront. It wouldn't be too difficult to run the MSON compiler as a linter.