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MobX Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   MobX Quick Start Guide Supercharge the client state in your React apps with MobX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789344837
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Development utilities


As you scale your applications with more features, it becomes mandatory to understand how and when the MobX reactive system is being used. MobX comes with a set of debugging utilities that help you monitor and trace the various activities happening inside it. These give you a real-time view of all the observable changes, actions, and reactions firing inside the system.

Using spy() to track the reactivity

Earlier, we saw the observe() function, which allows you to "observe" the changes happening to a single observable. But what if you wanted to observe changes happening across all observables without having to individually set up the observe() handlers? That is where spy() comes in. It gives you insight into how the various observables in your system are changing over time:

disposer = spy(listener: (event) => { })

 

It takes in a listener function that receives an event object carrying all the details. The event has properties very similar to the observe() handler. There...

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