Reactive Data
In addition to request and cache management, WarpDrive provides a reactive access layer for data in the cache.
Data in the cache is conceptualized as belonging to one of three forms
- Documents - the response to a request
- Resources - a unique cacheable entity within the response to a request
- Fields - the data for an individual property on a resource
Each form of data can be accessed and managed reactively through one of two modes
- (upcoming, default in v6) PolarisMode
- (current, default in v5) LegacyMode
These modes are interopable. The reactive object (record) for a resource in PolarisMode can relate to a record in LegacyMode and vice-versa. This interopability is true whether the record in LegacyMode is a SchemaRecord or a Model.
These reactive primitives use fine-grained signals-based reactivity. Currently, we use glimmer's (Ember's) implementation of Signal (@tracked) and Computed (@cached); however, we've architected our use to be pluggable and will soon enable configuration of any desired implementation, thus making WarpDrive compatible with any signals compatible library or framework.