SolidJS•3mo ago

How to destructure properly?

Hey community! I'm brand new to SolidJS so I apologize if this is a basic question. I'm trying to find a way to destructure props the SolidJS way. I've tried this a couple of different ways, and I seem to run into problems. My issue stems from a request that returns a bunch of nested data (GraphQL), and I'd like to break that data up into pieces. I'd like to change data that looks like this: data()?.user?.repositoriesContributedTo.nodes

import { destructure } from '@solid-primitives/destructure'

const FC = () => {
  const [data] = newQuery<UserReposQuery>(UserQuery, variables); // This has reactivity, and is a response to a request.
  const { user: { name, company, repositoriesContributedTo  } } = destructure(data, { deep: true }) // I believe using this library maintains reactivity? 
  
  return (
    <div>
      <p>{company()}</p>
      <p>{name()}</p>
    </div>
  )
}

import { destructure } from '@solid-primitives/destructure'

const FC = () => {
  const [data] = newQuery<UserReposQuery>(UserQuery, variables); // This has reactivity, and is a response to a request.
  const { user: { name, company, repositoriesContributedTo  } } = destructure(data, { deep: true }) // I believe using this library maintains reactivity? 
  
  return (
    <div>
      <p>{company()}</p>
      <p>{name()}</p>
    </div>
  )
}

17 Replies

bigmistqke•3mo ago

hi creme 👋 could u elaborate on what's not working as u expected?

CremeDeLaKremlin•3mo ago

Oh sorry, I totally spaced on including the errors I get: Property 'user' does not exist on type 'DeepSpread<ReactiveSource>'

type UserReposQuery = {
    __typename?: "Query" | undefined;
    user?: {
        __typename?: "User" | undefined;
        name?: string | null | undefined;
        company?: string | null | undefined;
        avatarUrl: any;

type UserReposQuery = {
    __typename?: "Query" | undefined;
    user?: {
        __typename?: "User" | undefined;
        name?: string | null | undefined;
        company?: string | null | undefined;
        avatarUrl: any;

bigmistqke•3mo ago

is it only a type-error or does it errors during runtime?

CremeDeLaKremlin•3mo ago

There is one more error in browser:

Uncaught TypeError: can't convert undefined to object
    destructure index.js:39

And this is what I'm passing to destructure: const data: Resource<UserReposQuery | undefined>

bigmistqke•3mo ago

mm ye my interpretation (full disclosure: never used destructure) is that destructure allows for undefined (see https://primitives.solidjs.community/package/destructure#accessing-keys-initially-missing) but only at the leaves

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bigmistqke•3mo ago

const x: {user?: {id: string}} = {}
const {user: {id}} = x

const x: {user?: {id: string}} = {}
const {user: {id}} = x

this would error in regular js too

CremeDeLaKremlin•3mo ago

I really appreciate your responses by the way

bigmistqke•3mo ago

thank u!

CremeDeLaKremlin•3mo ago

Ah yes, I think that error makes sense. Can't we circumvent with:

const x: {user?: {id: string}} = {}
const {user: {id}} = x ?? {}

const x: {user?: {id: string}} = {}
const {user: {id}} = x ?? {}

bigmistqke•3mo ago

the above would still error in js have you looked at reconcile and solid's store?

CremeDeLaKremlin•3mo ago

Gotcha. So what would the solution be? Just destructure user and then access its properties with optional chaining? Would it be bad practice to user destructure again on user? Yes to store, no to reconcile. Though I think my understanding of store is poor

peerreynders•3mo ago

I tend to use this approach:

const company = (data: Resource<UserReposQuery>) => data()?.user?.company;
const name = (data: Resource<UserReposQuery>) => data()?.user?.name;

const FC = () => {
  const [data] = newQuery<UserReposQuery>(UserQuery, variables); // This has reactivity, and is a response to a request.
  
  return (
    <div>
      <p>{company(data)}</p>
      <p>{name(data)}</p>
    </div>
  )
}

const company = (data: Resource<UserReposQuery>) => data()?.user?.company;
const name = (data: Resource<UserReposQuery>) => data()?.user?.name;

const FC = () => {
  const [data] = newQuery<UserReposQuery>(UserQuery, variables); // This has reactivity, and is a response to a request.
  
  return (
    <div>
      <p>{company(data)}</p>
      <p>{name(data)}</p>
    </div>
  )
}

bigmistqke•3mo ago

you can do it manually, like peer proposes

CremeDeLaKremlin•3mo ago

Ahhh, that does exactly what I want it to do.

bigmistqke•3mo ago

I would personally just do

const FC = () => {
  const [data] = newQuery<UserReposQuery>(UserQuery, variables); // This has reactivity, and is a response to a request.
  const name = () => data()?.user?.name
  
  return (
    <div>
      <p>{name()}</p>
    </div>
  )
}

const FC = () => {
  const [data] = newQuery<UserReposQuery>(UserQuery, variables); // This has reactivity, and is a response to a request.
  const name = () => data()?.user?.name
  
  return (
    <div>
      <p>{name()}</p>
    </div>
  )
}

but it's the same idea

CremeDeLaKremlin•3mo ago

Yep, will go with the second proposed approach. You guys are awesome. Thanks for answering this, and so fast also.

bigmistqke•3mo ago

the idea of reconcile is to take immutable data (like a response from a fetch) and then diff it and only update the properties that have changed (aka finegrain it) but it might be a bit of a hassle to combine it with createResource appreciate 🙏

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