Hey there,
When making lots of observable-based stuff, it’s kinda hard to see if/when something happens. Usually, you throw a HoldLatest
here and there and create a Bang
on the On Data
pin to see when something happens, or create a ForEach (Reactive)
and print something to the Console.
That’s a bit tedious though, and clutters the patch.
What would you think about somehow “highlighting” links carrying an event (be it an Observable
, Subject
, Channel
…) when the event occurs? Obviously you don’t want to end up with a Christmas tree like patch with stuff blinking all over the place, so could be something subtle like the link going brighter smoothly to indicate that a event is flowing there?
… and now that we’re at it, what about doing that when any value carried by the link changes? Obviously that could lead to flashing stuff everywhere, but that could be a setting you enable for debugging, like CTRL + F9
and CTRL + SHIFT + F9
from the ol’ days. Kinda like a Changed
node, but visualized on the link.
Cheerz
seb