i hate the new pattern of using these magic strings everywhere. “use workflow”, “use client”, etc etc. I don’t like having custom bundler logic for my code.
"don't use next"
"don't use react"
Make any TypeScript function durable
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Re: Make any TypeScript function durable
#32can anyone point to the "Durable" part?
looking at the docs and examples, I see Workflows and Steps and Retries, but I don't see any Durable yet. none of the examples really make it clear how or where anything gets stored
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#33"use turnMyBrainOff";
"use blackBoxWrapperForEverything";
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#34well that's some scary typescript syntax. i didnt know a string constant at the top of a function could change the operation.
or is this some extra compilation step to rewrite the code?
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#35well that's some scary typescript syntax. i didnt know a string constant at the top of a function could change the operation. or is this some extra compilation step to rewrite the code?
Must be some compile step. Reminds me of “use strict”.
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#36This seems pretty similar to Cloudflare Workflows (https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/), but with code-rewriting to use syntax magic (functions annotated with "use workflow" and "use step") instead of Cloudflare's `step.do` and `step.sleep` function calls. (I think I lightly prefer Cloudflare's model for not relying on a code-rewriting step, partly because I think it's easier for programmers to see what's going on in the system.) Workflow's Hooks are similar to Cloudflare's `step.waitForEvent` + `instance.sendEvent`. It's kind of exciting to see this programming model get more popular. I wonder if the ecosystem can evolve into a standardized model.
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#37well that's some scary typescript syntax. i didnt know a string constant at the top of a function could change the operation. or is this some extra compilation step to rewrite the code?
"use strict" has been around since 2009. That being said, this is not a TypeScript or React feature but yet another black box magic NextJS feature to try to lock you into the Vercel ecosystem.
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#39So this seems similar to https://temporal.io/, am I reading this right? I used that briefly a few years ago and it was pretty nice at the time. It did make some features much easier to model like their welcome email example. Would love to hear from someone with extensive temporal experience, iirc the only drawback was on the infra side of things.
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#40well that's some scary typescript syntax. i didnt know a string constant at the top of a function could change the operation. or is this some extra compilation step to rewrite the code?
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