Feat: wire up a very basic dom updater

packages/core/src/lib.rs

@@ -65,11 +65,13 @@
 //! - dioxus-liveview (SSR + StringRenderer)
 //!
 
-pub mod changelist; // An "edit phase" described by transitions and edit operations
+// pub mod changelist; // An "edit phase" described by transitions and edit operations
 pub mod component; // Logic for extending FC
 pub mod context; // Logic for providing hook + context functionality to user components
 pub mod debug_renderer; // Test harness for validating that lifecycles and diffs work appropriately
-pub mod diff; // The diffing algorithm that builds the ChangeList
+pub mod diff;
+pub mod patch; // The diffing algorithm that builds the ChangeList
+               // pub mod dodriodiff; // The diffing algorithm that builds the ChangeList
 pub mod error; // Error type we expose to the renderers
 pub mod events; // Manages the synthetic event API
 pub mod hooks; // Built-in hooks
@@ -137,5 +139,7 @@ pub mod prelude {
     pub use dioxus_core_macro::fc;
     pub use dioxus_html_2::html;
 
+    pub use crate::diff::DiffMachine;
+
     pub use crate::hooks::*;
 }

packages/core/src/nodebuilder.rs

@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ where
     /// let my_div = div(&b).attr("id", "my-div").finish();
     /// ```
     #[inline]
-    pub fn attr(mut self, name: &'a str, value: &'a str) -> Self {
+    pub fn attr(mut self, name: &'static str, value: &'a str) -> Self {
         self.attributes.push(Attribute { name, value });
         self
     }
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ where
     ///     .bool_attr("hidden", Math::random() >= 0.5)
     ///     .finish();
     /// ```
-    pub fn bool_attr(mut self, name: &'a str, should_add: bool) -> Self {
+    pub fn bool_attr(mut self, name: &'static str, should_add: bool) -> Self {
         if should_add {
             self.attributes.push(Attribute { name, value: "" });
         }
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ pub fn text<'a>(contents: &'a str) -> VNode<'a> {
 ///
 /// let my_id_attr = attr("id", "my-id");
 /// ```
-pub fn attr<'a>(name: &'a str, value: &'a str) -> Attribute<'a> {
+pub fn attr<'a>(name: &'static str, value: &'a str) -> Attribute<'a> {
     Attribute { name, value }
 }
 

packages/core/src/nodes.rs

@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ mod velement {
     /// `href="https://example.com"`.
     #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
     pub struct Attribute<'a> {
-        pub(crate) name: &'a str,
-        pub(crate) value: &'a str,
+        pub name: &'static str,
+        pub value: &'a str,
     }
 
     impl<'a> Attribute<'a> {

packages/core/src/patch.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+use fxhash::FxHashMap;
+
+use crate::innerlude::{VNode, VText};
+
+/// A Patch encodes an operation that modifies a real DOM element.
+///
+/// To update the real DOM that a user sees you'll want to first diff your
+/// old virtual dom and new virtual dom.
+///
+/// This diff operation will generate `Vec<Patch>` with zero or more patches that, when
+/// applied to your real DOM, will make your real DOM look like your new virtual dom.
+///
+/// Each Patch has a u32 node index that helps us identify the real DOM node that it applies to.
+///
+/// Our old virtual dom's nodes are indexed depth first, as shown in this illustration
+/// (0 being the root node, 1 being it's first child, 2 being it's first child's first child).
+///
+/// ```text
+///             .─.
+///            ( 0 )
+///             `┬'
+///         ┌────┴──────┐
+///         │           │
+///         ▼           ▼
+///        .─.         .─.
+///       ( 1 )       ( 4 )
+///        `┬'         `─'
+///    ┌────┴───┐       ├─────┬─────┐
+///    │        │       │     │     │
+///    ▼        ▼       ▼     ▼     ▼
+///   .─.      .─.     .─.   .─.   .─.
+///  ( 2 )    ( 3 )   ( 5 ) ( 6 ) ( 7 )
+///   `─'      `─'     `─'   `─'   `─'                  
+/// ```
+///
+/// The patching process is tested in a real browser in crates/virtual-dom-rs/tests/diff_patch.rs
+
+pub enum Patch<'a> {
+    /// Append a vector of child nodes to a parent node id.
+    AppendChildren(NodeIdx, Vec<&'a VNode<'a>>),
+
+    /// For a `node_i32`, remove all children besides the first `len`
+    TruncateChildren(NodeIdx, usize),
+
+    /// Replace a node with another node. This typically happens when a node's tag changes.
+    /// ex: <div> becomes <span>
+    Replace(NodeIdx, &'a VNode<'a>),
+
+    /// Add attributes that the new node has that the old node does not
+    AddAttributes(NodeIdx, FxHashMap<&'a str, &'a str>),
+
+    /// Remove attributes that the old node had that the new node doesn't
+    RemoveAttributes(NodeIdx, Vec<&'a str>),
+
+    /// Change the text of a Text node.
+    ChangeText(NodeIdx, &'a VText<'a>),
+}
+
+type NodeIdx = usize;
+
+impl<'a> Patch<'a> {
+    /// Every Patch is meant to be applied to a specific node within the DOM. Get the
+    /// index of the DOM node that this patch should apply to. DOM nodes are indexed
+    /// depth first with the root node in the tree having index 0.
+    pub fn node_idx(&self) -> usize {
+        match self {
+            Patch::AppendChildren(node_idx, _) => *node_idx,
+            Patch::TruncateChildren(node_idx, _) => *node_idx,
+            Patch::Replace(node_idx, _) => *node_idx,
+            Patch::AddAttributes(node_idx, _) => *node_idx,
+            Patch::RemoveAttributes(node_idx, _) => *node_idx,
+            Patch::ChangeText(node_idx, _) => *node_idx,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct PatchList<'a> {
+    patches: Vec<Patch<'a>>,
+}

packages/core/src/virtual_dom.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use crate::{changelist::EditList, nodes::VNode};
+// use crate::{changelist::EditList, nodes::VNode};
+use crate::nodes::VNode;
 use crate::{events::EventTrigger, innerlude::*};
 use any::Any;
 use bumpalo::Bump;
@@ -121,7 +122,8 @@ impl VirtualDom {
     ///
     ///
     /// ```
-    pub async fn progress_with_event(&mut self, evt: EventTrigger) -> Result<EditList<'_>> {
+    pub async fn progress_with_event(&mut self, evt: EventTrigger) -> Result<()> {
+        // pub async fn progress_with_event(&mut self, evt: EventTrigger) -> Result<EditList<'_>> {
         let EventTrigger {
             component_id,
             listener_id,
@@ -156,8 +158,8 @@ impl VirtualDom {
             process_event(&mut self.components, event)?;
         }
 
-        todo!()
-        // Ok(())
+        // todo!()
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     pub async fn progress_completely(&mut self) -> Result<()> {