Advice for developing a library with Elixir and JavaScript parts. API/Documentation/Publishing/Redux

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@peerreynders

At this point I’m wondering how difficult it would be to deal with the EventSource directly.

Not that difficult, it has a callback based API. So there is probably only limited value in using my layer that probably just obscures the underlying interface.

@peerreynders

There doesn’t currently seem to be a way to “close” (i.e. discard) the client interface. Closing the mailbox seems to simply call the registered close handler - meanwhile the underlying EventSource doesn’t seem to be closed.

This is good point it is missing. So far my usecase has only been to discard the client when the browser page is closed, however I think it is something that is worth adding.

mailbox.close is really only to be used by the client code when it looses connection.

@peerreynders

There currently don’t seem to be any opportunities for errors after the client interface has started . That makes me wonder whether there are places where errors are being thrown and not being converted to error values

I only consider it an error when a reconnection fails, loosing a connection is just a natural occurance.
The setHander function does take two callbacks the second one being called on close