ComponentEx

We've got:

• Fancy component lifecycle callbacks

interface ComponentLifecycleCallbacks<Shared, Private, Props> {
    onComponentRegister(): ComponentRegistrationInfo<Shared>;
    onComponentWake?(component: IComponent<Shared>): void;
    onInstanceCreate(component: IComponent<Shared>, props: Props): ComponentInstatiationInfo<Private>;
    onInstanceRender(self: IComponentInstance<Shared, Private>, props: Props, children: ReadonlyArray<MaxWhere.Node>): Promise<MaxWhere.Node>;
    onInstanceRendered?(self: IComponentInstance<Shared, Private>): Promise<void>;
    onInstanceDestroy(self: IComponentInstance<Shared, Private>): unknown | Promise<unknown>;
    onComponentSleep?(component: IComponent<Shared>): unknown | Promise<unknown>;
}

• Hot reloadable webviews and overlays
  • Intermediary "host" JS module between the component and the web content
    • Handles messages, runs in the main process
    • Automatically reloaded when it changes on the disk; webview is also recreated
• Communication channels
  • Built-in support for
    • Component <=> Webview channels over Electron IPC
    • Webview <=> Webview channels over BroadcastChannels
  • Negotiation (head waits for terminals to initialize and assigns them unique IDs)
  • Waiting for specific messages

async function waitForUsedToPressButtonOnTheOverlay(channel: ICommHead<Message>) {
    await channel.waitForMessage((subchannel, msg) => msg.kind === 'user-pressed-button');
}

• Raw mesh utils
  • Raw mesh managers: refcounting, arena
  • ThreeJS geometry -> raw mesh converter
• Audio API
• XR toolkit
• Resource cleanup utilities that generate compile-time errors if u forget to free something!!
• <form>s that automatically send a message when they change