ReactFX
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ReactFX
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React is a fractal of bad design
You could also write that in many other languages like Clojure (with cljfx for FP fans), Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and of course Java. It would be less verbose if I used a library that better used Kotlin's features, but the goal here is that you can look up the JavaFX APIs from the link above (there are a couple of implied static imports).
So not much different, but it demonstrates how the text property of the label is bound to a dynamically computed string which is in turn bound to an observable number. When the timer fires, the count increases and the label is recomputed. Everything is done that way so layout computations, for example, won't run unless the size of the label changes. And that's it - no need for VDOMs or prop drilling or state memoization or any of these other performance hacks.
At some point you'll observe that this seems a like like "reactive programming" as used on the server side, and then might want to explore a library like ReactFX which connects these two worlds together.
https://github.com/TomasMikula/ReactFX
There are some other nice features in this type of toolkit that the web community seems to be heading towards. I'd be willing to bet a lot that at some point they'll even reinvent inheritance under a new name, because being able to write code that's generic over component trees is really pretty useful. The hooks/functions model totally wrecks that and has led to this explosion of "design systems" (otherwise known as themes), none of which interoperate properly or can be coded against in an abstracted manner.
None of this is to say that FX is perfect or that React/SolidJS etc are the wrong tools to use. You can run FX apps in a browser using a form of server side rendering - check out https://www.jpro.one to see a fully crawlable website that's actually implemented using JavaFX on the server with no frontend/backend split existing at all. But it only works well if you don't have a fast and reliable server connection, plus a server with plenty of RAM and CPU. Alas browsers pull all sorts of mean tricks to keep people locked inside the HTML5 sandbox so JS frameworks aren't going anywhere, but it would be nice if that community spread its wings a bit and looked at prior art from outside their language. GUIs are old and the challenges involved in them aren't new, and from the outside it looks suspiciously like there is no real progress being made here, only wheel spinning.
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RichTextFX: Open source libraries for making a text viewer / editor
ReactFX - For cleaner, easier-to-reason event handler composition. Nice!
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What is this design pattern called is prevalent throughout guava and apache commons?
I've noticed when you look into a lot of classes in some libraries like guava, apache commons, or ReactFX, you'll notice a sort of abstraction pattern. There'll be a class that houses a bunch of common methods. Inside of those methods, instead of putting the relevant logic inside of the method, they'll call an operation-specific class that executes the logic. An example would be PredicateUtils or EventStream. Is there name for this pattern? It doesn't quite seem like it fits the command or service layer patterns.
Flowless
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RecyclerView + Glide alternatives?
Flowless - Efficient VirtualFlow for JavaFX. VirtualFlow is a layout container that lays out cells in a vertical or horizontal flow. The main feature of a virtual flow is that only the currently visible cells are rendered in the scene. You may have a list of thousands of items, but only, say, 30 cells are rendered at any given time.
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BCEdit180: A bytecode editor I wrote that lets you modify, add and remove method instructions, create a class from scratch, etc
Does C# have something similar to Flowless? This would probably resolve that problem of yours.
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RichTextFX: Open source libraries for making a text viewer / editor
Flowless - Those text lines (in my example) won't all fit in memory. This "lower level" library provides better clean up for unused cells than the underlying machinery that for eg ListView provides.
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JavaFX 16 Released
Nice! Are there any comparisons to Flowless for this?
What are some alternatives?
RichTextFX - Rich-text area for JavaFX
commons-collections - Apache Commons Collections
MaterialFX - A library of material components for JavaFX
BCEdit180 - A java class file viewer and editor, written in C#. Similar to jclasslib but supports extra features such as copy and paste bytecode between methods
FXGL - Java / JavaFX / Kotlin Game Library (Engine)
VirtualizedFX
Speedment - Speedment is a Stream ORM Java Toolkit and Runtime
JFoenix - JavaFX Material Design Library
HMCL - A Minecraft Launcher which is multi-functional, cross-platform and popular