npm package: @push.rocks/smartstate
Description: A TypeScript-first reactive state management library with middleware, computed state, batching, persistence, and Web Component Context Protocol support.
Author: Lossless GmbH
Latest version: 2.3.0

# @push.rocks/smartstate

A TypeScript-first reactive state management library with processes, middleware, computed state, batching, persistence, and Web Component Context Protocol support 🚀

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## Install

```bash
pnpm install @push.rocks/smartstate --save
```

Or with npm:

```bash
npm install @push.rocks/smartstate --save
```

## Usage

### Quick Start

```typescript
import { Smartstate } from '@push.rocks/smartstate';

// 1. Define your state part names
type AppParts = 'user' | 'settings';

// 2. Create the root instance
const state = new Smartstate<AppParts>();

// 3. Create state parts with initial values
const userState = await state.getStatePart<{ name: string; loggedIn: boolean }>('user', {
  name: '',
  loggedIn: false,
});

// 4. Subscribe to changes
userState.select((s) => s.name).subscribe((name) => {
  console.log('Name changed:', name);
});

// 5. Update state
await userState.setState({ name: 'Alice', loggedIn: true });
```

### 🧩 State Parts & Init Modes

State parts are isolated, typed units of state — the building blocks of your application's state tree. Create them via `getStatePart()`:

```typescript
const part = await state.getStatePart<IMyState>(name, initialState, initMode);
```

| Init Mode | Behavior |
|-----------|----------|
| `'soft'` (default) | Returns existing if found, creates new otherwise |
| `'mandatory'` | Throws if state part already exists — useful for ensuring single-initialization |
| `'force'` | Always creates a new state part, disposing and overwriting any existing one |
| `'persistent'` | Like `'soft'` but automatically persists state to IndexedDB via WebStore |

You can use either string literal union types or enums for state part names:

```typescript
// String literal types (simpler)
type AppParts = 'user' | 'settings' | 'cart';

// Enums (more explicit)
enum AppParts {
  User = 'user',
  Settings = 'settings',
  Cart = 'cart',
}
```

#### 💾 Persistent State

```typescript
const settings = await state.getStatePart('settings', { theme: 'dark', fontSize: 14 }, 'persistent');

// ✅ Automatically saved to IndexedDB on every setState()
// ✅ On next app load, persisted values override defaults
// ✅ Persistence writes complete before in-memory updates
```

### 🔭 Selecting State

`select()` returns an RxJS Observable that emits the current value immediately (via `BehaviorSubject`) and on every subsequent change:

```typescript
// Full state
userState.select().subscribe((state) => console.log(state));

// Derived value via selector function
userState.select((s) => s.name).subscribe((name) => console.log(name));
```

Selectors are **memoized** — calling `select(fn)` with the same function reference returns the same cached Observable, shared across all subscribers via `shareReplay`. This means you can call `select(mySelector)` in multiple places without creating duplicate subscriptions.

**Change detection** is built in: `select()` uses `distinctUntilChanged` with deep JSON comparison, so subscribers only fire when the selected value actually changes. Selecting `s => s.name` won't re-emit when only `s.count` changes.

#### ✂️ AbortSignal Support

Clean up subscriptions without manual `.unsubscribe()` — the modern way:

```typescript
const controller = new AbortController();

userState.select((s) => s.name, { signal: controller.signal }).subscribe((name) => {
  console.log(name); // automatically stops receiving when aborted
});

// Later: clean up all subscriptions tied to this signal
controller.abort();
```

### ⚡ Actions

Actions provide controlled, named state mutations with full async support:

```typescript
interface ILoginPayload {
  username: string;
  email: string;
}

const loginAction = userState.createAction<ILoginPayload>(async (statePart, payload) => {
  const current = statePart.getState();
  return { ...current, name: payload.username, loggedIn: true };
});

// Two equivalent ways to dispatch:
await loginAction.trigger({ username: 'Alice', email: 'alice@example.com' });
// or
await userState.dispatchAction(loginAction, { username: 'Alice', email: 'alice@example.com' });
```

Both `trigger()` and `dispatchAction()` return a Promise with the new state. All dispatches are serialized through a mutation queue, so concurrent dispatches never cause lost updates.

#### 🔗 Nested Actions (Action Context)

When you need to dispatch sub-actions from within an action, use the `context` parameter. This is critical because calling `dispatchAction()` directly from inside an action would deadlock (it tries to acquire the mutation queue that's already held). The context's `dispatch()` bypasses the queue and executes inline:

```typescript
const incrementAction = userState.createAction<number>(async (statePart, amount) => {
  const current = statePart.getState();
  return { ...current, count: current.count + amount };
});

const doubleIncrementAction = userState.createAction<number>(async (statePart, amount, context) => {
  // ✅ Safe: uses context.dispatch() which bypasses the mutation queue
  await context.dispatch(incrementAction, amount);
  const current = statePart.getState();
  return { ...current, count: current.count + amount };
});

// ❌ DON'T do this inside an action — it will deadlock:
// await statePart.dispatchAction(someAction, payload);
```

A built-in depth limit (10 levels) prevents infinite circular dispatch chains, throwing a clear error if exceeded.

### 🔄 Processes (Polling, Streams & Scheduled Tasks)

Processes are managed, pausable observable-to-state bridges — the "side effects" layer. They tie an ongoing data source (polling, WebSockets, event streams) to state updates with full lifecycle control and optional auto-pause.

#### Basic Process: Polling an API

```typescript
import { interval, switchMap, from } from 'rxjs';

const metricsPoller = dashboard.createProcess<{ cpu: number; memory: number }>({
  // Producer: an Observable factory — called on start and each resume
  producer: () => interval(5000).pipe(
    switchMap(() => from(fetch('/api/metrics').then(r => r.json()))),
  ),
  // Reducer: folds each produced value into state (runs through middleware & validation)
  reducer: (currentState, metrics) => ({
    ...currentState,
    metrics,
    lastUpdated: Date.now(),
  }),
  autoPause: 'visibility',  // ⏸️ Stop polling when the tab is hidden
  autoStart: true,           // ▶️ Start immediately
});

// Full lifecycle control
metricsPoller.pause();    // Unsubscribes from producer
metricsPoller.resume();   // Re-subscribes (fresh subscription)
metricsPoller.dispose();  // Permanent cleanup

// Observe status reactively
metricsPoller.status;     // 'idle' | 'running' | 'paused' | 'disposed'
metricsPoller.status$.subscribe(s => console.log('Process:', s));
```

#### Scheduled Actions

Dispatch an existing action on a recurring interval — syntactic sugar over `createProcess`:

```typescript
const refreshAction = dashboard.createAction<void>(async (sp) => {
  const data = await fetch('/api/dashboard').then(r => r.json());
  return { ...sp.getState()!, ...data, lastUpdated: Date.now() };
});

// Dispatches refreshAction every 30 seconds, auto-pauses when tab is hidden
const scheduled = dashboard.createScheduledAction({
  action: refreshAction,
  payload: undefined,
  intervalMs: 30000,
  autoPause: 'visibility',
});

// It's a full StateProcess — pause, resume, dispose all work
scheduled.dispose();
```

#### Custom Auto-Pause Signals

Pass any `Observable<boolean>` as the auto-pause signal — `true` means active, `false` means pause:

```typescript
import { fromEvent, map, startWith } from 'rxjs';

// Pause when offline, resume when online
const onlineSignal = fromEvent(window, 'online').pipe(
  startWith(null),
  map(() => navigator.onLine),
);

const syncProcess = userPart.createProcess<SyncPayload>({
  producer: () => interval(10000).pipe(
    switchMap(() => from(syncWithServer())),
  ),
  reducer: (state, result) => ({ ...state, ...result }),
  autoPause: onlineSignal,
});
syncProcess.start();
```

#### WebSocket / Live Streams

Pause disconnects; resume creates a fresh connection:

```typescript
const liveProcess = tickerPart.createProcess<TradeEvent>({
  producer: () => new Observable<TradeEvent>(subscriber => {
    const ws = new WebSocket('wss://trades.example.com');
    ws.onmessage = (e) => subscriber.next(JSON.parse(e.data));
    ws.onerror = (e) => subscriber.error(e);
    ws.onclose = () => subscriber.complete();
    return () => ws.close();  // Teardown: close WebSocket on unsubscribe
  }),
  reducer: (state, trade) => ({
    ...state,
    lastPrice: trade.price,
    trades: [...state.trades.slice(-99), trade],
  }),
  autoPause: 'visibility',
});
liveProcess.start();
```

#### Error Recovery

If a producer errors, the process gracefully transitions to `'paused'` instead of dying. Call `resume()` to retry with a fresh subscription:

```typescript
process.start();
// Producer errors → status becomes 'paused'
process.resume(); // Creates a fresh subscription — retry
```

#### Process Cleanup Cascades

Disposing a `StatePart` or `Smartstate` instance automatically disposes all attached processes:

```typescript
const p1 = part.createProcess({ ... });
const p2 = part.createProcess({ ... });
p1.start();
p2.start();

part.dispose();
console.log(p1.status); // 'disposed'
console.log(p2.status); // 'disposed'
```

### 🛡️ Middleware

Intercept every `setState()` call to transform, validate, log, or reject state changes:

```typescript
// Logging middleware
userState.addMiddleware((newState, oldState) => {
  console.log('State changing:', oldState, '→', newState);
  return newState;
});

// Validation middleware — throw to reject the change
userState.addMiddleware((newState) => {
  if (!newState.name) throw new Error('Name is required');
  return newState;
});

// Transform middleware
userState.addMiddleware((newState) => {
  return { ...newState, name: newState.name.trim() };
});

// Async middleware
userState.addMiddleware(async (newState, oldState) => {
  await auditLog('state-change', { from: oldState, to: newState });
  return newState;
});

// Removal — addMiddleware() returns a dispose function
const remove = userState.addMiddleware(myMiddleware);
remove(); // middleware no longer runs
```

Middleware runs **sequentially** in insertion order. If any middleware throws, the state remains unchanged — the operation is **atomic**. Process-driven state updates go through middleware too.

### 🧮 Computed / Derived State

Derive reactive values from one or more state parts using `combineLatest` under the hood:

```typescript
import { computed } from '@push.rocks/smartstate';

const userState = await state.getStatePart('user', { firstName: 'Jane', lastName: 'Doe' });
const settingsState = await state.getStatePart('settings', { locale: 'en' });

// Standalone function
const greeting$ = computed(
  [userState, settingsState],
  (user, settings) => `Hello, ${user.firstName} (${settings.locale})`,
);

greeting$.subscribe((msg) => console.log(msg));
// => "Hello, Jane (en)"

// Also available as a convenience method on the Smartstate instance:
const greeting2$ = state.computed(
  [userState, settingsState],
  (user, settings) => `${user.firstName} - ${settings.locale}`,
);
```

Computed observables are **lazy** — they only subscribe to their sources when someone subscribes to them, and they automatically unsubscribe when all subscribers disconnect. They also use `distinctUntilChanged` to avoid redundant emissions when the derived value hasn't actually changed.

### 📦 Batch Updates

Update multiple state parts at once while deferring all notifications until the entire batch completes:

```typescript
const partA = await state.getStatePart('a', { value: 1 });
const partB = await state.getStatePart('b', { value: 2 });

await state.batch(async () => {
  await partA.setState({ value: 10 });
  await partB.setState({ value: 20 });
  // No notifications fire inside the batch
});
// Both subscribers now fire with their new values simultaneously

// Nested batches are supported — flush happens at the outermost level only
await state.batch(async () => {
  await partA.setState({ value: 100 });
  await state.batch(async () => {
    await partB.setState({ value: 200 });
  });
  // Still deferred — inner batch doesn't trigger flush
});
// Now both fire
```

### ⏳ Waiting for State

Wait for a specific state condition to be met before proceeding:

```typescript
// Wait for any truthy state
const currentState = await userState.waitUntilPresent();

// Wait for a specific condition
const name = await userState.waitUntilPresent((s) => s.name || undefined);

// With timeout (milliseconds)
const name = await userState.waitUntilPresent((s) => s.name || undefined, 5000);

// With AbortSignal and/or timeout via options object
const controller = new AbortController();
try {
  const name = await userState.waitUntilPresent(
    (s) => s.name || undefined,
    { timeoutMs: 5000, signal: controller.signal },
  );
} catch (e) {
  // e.message is 'Aborted' or 'waitUntilPresent timed out after 5000ms'
}
```

### 🌐 Context Protocol Bridge (Web Components)

Expose state parts to web components via the [W3C Context Protocol](https://github.com/webcomponents-cg/community-protocols/blob/main/proposals/context.md). This lets any web component framework (Lit, FAST, Stencil, or vanilla) consume your state without coupling:

```typescript
import { attachContextProvider } from '@push.rocks/smartstate';

// Define a context key (use Symbol for uniqueness)
const themeContext = Symbol('theme');

// Attach a provider to a DOM element — any descendant can consume it
const cleanup = attachContextProvider(document.body, {
  context: themeContext,
  statePart: settingsState,
  selectorFn: (s) => s.theme, // optional: provide a derived value instead of full state
});

// A consumer dispatches a context-request event:
myComponent.dispatchEvent(
  new CustomEvent('context-request', {
    bubbles: true,
    composed: true,
    detail: {
      context: themeContext,
      callback: (theme) => console.log('Got theme:', theme),
      subscribe: true, // receive updates whenever the state changes
    },
  }),
);

// Works seamlessly with Lit's @consume() decorator, FAST's context, etc.

// Cleanup when the provider is no longer needed
cleanup();
```

### ✅ State Validation

Built-in validation prevents `null` and `undefined` from being set as state. For custom validation, extend `StatePart`:

```typescript
import { StatePart } from '@push.rocks/smartstate';

class ValidatedUserPart extends StatePart<string, IUserState> {
  protected validateState(stateArg: any): stateArg is IUserState {
    return (
      super.validateState(stateArg) &&
      typeof stateArg.name === 'string' &&
      typeof stateArg.loggedIn === 'boolean'
    );
  }
}
```

If validation fails, `setState()` throws and the state remains unchanged.

### ⚙️ Async State Setup

Initialize state with async operations while ensuring actions wait for setup to complete:

```typescript
await userState.stateSetup(async (statePart) => {
  const userData = await fetchUserFromAPI();
  return { ...statePart.getState(), ...userData };
});

// Any dispatchAction() calls will automatically wait for stateSetup() to finish
```

### 🧹 Disposal & Cleanup

Both `Smartstate` and individual `StatePart` instances support disposal for proper cleanup:

```typescript
// Dispose a single state part — completes the BehaviorSubject, clears middleware, caches,
// and disposes all attached processes
userState.dispose();

// Dispose the entire Smartstate instance — disposes all state parts and clears internal maps
state.dispose();
```

After disposal, `setState()` and `dispatchAction()` will throw if called on a disposed `StatePart`. Calling `start()`, `pause()`, or `resume()` on a disposed `StateProcess` also throws.

### 🏎️ Performance

Smartstate is built with performance in mind:

- **🔒 SHA256 Change Detection** — Uses content hashing to detect actual changes. Identical state values don't trigger notifications, even with different object references.
- **🎯 distinctUntilChanged on Selectors** — Sub-selectors only fire when the selected slice actually changes. `select(s => s.name)` won't emit when `s.count` changes.
- **♻️ Selector Memoization** — `select(fn)` caches observables by function reference and shares them via `shareReplay({ refCount: true })`. Multiple subscribers share one upstream subscription.
- **📦 Cumulative Notifications** — `notifyChangeCumulative()` debounces rapid changes into a single notification at the end of the call stack.
- **🔐 Concurrent Safety** — Simultaneous `getStatePart()` calls for the same name return the same promise, preventing duplicate creation. All `setState()` and `dispatchAction()` calls are serialized through a mutation queue. Process values are serialized through their own internal queue.
- **💾 Atomic Persistence** — WebStore writes complete before in-memory state updates, ensuring consistency.
- **⏸️ Batch Deferred Notifications** — `batch()` suppresses all subscriber notifications until every update in the batch completes.

## API Reference

### `Smartstate<T>`

| Method / Property | Description |
|-------------------|-------------|
| `getStatePart(name, initial?, initMode?)` | Get or create a typed state part |
| `batch(fn)` | Batch state updates, defer all notifications until complete |
| `computed(sources, fn)` | Create a computed observable from multiple state parts |
| `dispose()` | Dispose all state parts and clear internal state |
| `isBatching` | `boolean` — whether a batch is currently active |

### `StatePart<TName, TPayload>`

| Method | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| `getState()` | Get current state synchronously (`TPayload \| undefined`) |
| `setState(newState)` | Set state — runs middleware → validates → persists → notifies |
| `select(selectorFn?, options?)` | Observable of state or derived values. Options: `{ signal?: AbortSignal }` |
| `createAction(actionDef)` | Create a reusable, typed state action |
| `dispatchAction(action, payload)` | Dispatch an action and return the new state |
| `addMiddleware(fn)` | Add a middleware interceptor. Returns a removal function |
| `waitUntilPresent(selectorFn?, opts?)` | Wait for a state condition. Opts: `number` (timeout) or `{ timeoutMs?, signal? }` |
| `createProcess(options)` | Create a managed, pausable process tied to this state part |
| `createScheduledAction(options)` | Create a process that dispatches an action on a recurring interval |
| `notifyChange()` | Manually trigger a change notification (with hash dedup) |
| `notifyChangeCumulative()` | Debounced notification — fires at end of call stack |
| `stateSetup(fn)` | Async state initialization with action serialization |
| `dispose()` | Complete the BehaviorSubject, dispose processes, clear middleware and caches |

### `StateAction<TState, TPayload>`

| Method | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| `trigger(payload)` | Dispatch the action on its associated state part |

### `StateProcess<TName, TPayload, TProducerValue>`

| Method / Property | Description |
|-------------------|-------------|
| `start()` | Start the process (subscribes to producer, sets up auto-pause) |
| `pause()` | Pause the process (unsubscribes from producer) |
| `resume()` | Resume a paused process (fresh subscription to producer) |
| `dispose()` | Permanently stop the process and clean up |
| `status` | Current status: `'idle' \| 'running' \| 'paused' \| 'disposed'` |
| `status$` | Observable of status transitions |

### `IActionContext<TState>`

| Method | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| `dispatch(action, payload)` | Dispatch a sub-action inline (bypasses mutation queue). Available as the third argument to action definitions |

### Standalone Functions

| Function | Description |
|----------|-------------|
| `computed(sources, fn)` | Create a computed observable from multiple state parts |
| `attachContextProvider(element, options)` | Bridge a state part to the W3C Context Protocol |

### Exported Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `TInitMode` | `'soft' \| 'mandatory' \| 'force' \| 'persistent'` |
| `TMiddleware<TPayload>` | `(newState, oldState) => TPayload \| Promise<TPayload>` |
| `IActionDef<TState, TPayload>` | Action definition function signature (receives statePart, payload, context?) |
| `IActionContext<TState>` | Context for safe nested dispatch within actions |
| `IContextProviderOptions<TPayload>` | Options for `attachContextProvider` |
| `IProcessOptions<TPayload, TValue>` | Options for `createProcess` (producer, reducer, autoPause, autoStart) |
| `IScheduledActionOptions<TPayload, TActionPayload>` | Options for `createScheduledAction` (action, payload, intervalMs, autoPause) |
| `TProcessStatus` | `'idle' \| 'running' \| 'paused' \| 'disposed'` |
| `TAutoPause` | `'visibility' \| Observable<boolean> \| false` |

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