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April 15th, 2024
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Dify AI allows you to build generative AI applications using their RAG engine. Build complex LLM applications and workflows to superpower any of your processes, applications, and so on.
A new proposal for ECMAScript has been… proposed! This proposal is about “Signals”. What are signals?
Signals represent reactive values that can change over time. There are two main types:
State Signals hold a mutable value that can be set directly.
Computed Signals derive their value from a pure function over other Signals.
When a Computed Signal's dependencies (the Signals it reads from) change, it automatically re-evaluates its derived value.
Computed Signals are lazy - they only re-evaluate when their value is actually read, not proactively when dependencies change.
Signals automatically track dependencies through dynamic dependency tracking. Computed Signals record what other Signals they read during evaluation.
Signals have memoization - Computed Signals cache their value and only re-evaluate if dependencies have actually changed since the last evaluation.
The core Signal API provides read/write access to State Signals and derivation of Computed Signals. But it doesn't include scheduling effects (like UI re-renders) - that is left to framework implementations to build on top.
The Watcher utility allows subscribing to any potential changes in a set of Signals to schedule side-effects reactively when dependencies change.
Sometimes you just want to smash a simple interface together, without having to open your IDE and write some boring code. OpenUI allows you to generate UI from a single text prompt using AI.
Drag and drop is a super cool feature, but it is super hard to implement. Atlassian has created an open-source package that allows you to implement drag-and-drop into any of your applications.
Keeping track of dependency versions is hard, and ignoring them is also very risky. Renovate allows you to keep track of dependency versions, and automatically update them through PRs.
