iModel.js Articles

I wrote a couple of articles for Bentley's iModel.js community blog. A disclaimer, I work for Bentley, but I found a very convenient JavaScript pattern while using our vanilla Javascript APIs in React; it inspired me to write about it for internal and external usage, and that turned into two articles.

The pattern is called the Provider-Local Class pattern, I named it myself but hopefully the idea is clear. It seriously helped me simplify a lot of my code so go check it out for some advanced React discussion, and maybe it'll improve your integration of APIs in your React application somewhere.

The first article, Writing a Primitive Tool, serves as an application context for using the pattern, I've included a gif of the final application just to pique the interest.

Article two, The Provider-Local Class Pattern, takes the example application that was built, and simplifies usage of API subclasses with the pattern. It also discusses the code-scalability that the pattern provides and compares that with trying to do the same thing via Redux.

If you think there are better alternatives (I think this is the most idiomatic way to do it in React), please feel free to write a blog post on why and send me a link.