VanX 0.5.0: Better console debugging for reactive objects

[Tao-VanJS]

Hi fellow VanJSers,

I'm happy to announce the release of VanX 0.5.0. 🎉🎉🎉

In this release, we did substantial refactor to the internal implementation of VanX. The most notable improvement is to enable better debugging support for reactive objects when they are logged via console.log. Specifically, when reactive objects are logged via console.log, the proxy target will be displayed in the console. Prior to VanX 0.5.0, the proxy targets of reactive objects are the input objects, whose field values won't be kept in sync with changes of the underlying states in the reactive objects. This can cause confusion, e.g.: #298 (comment). VanX 0.5.0 improves the situation by making underlying states as the proxy targets of reactive objects. With this change, whenever reactive objects are logged via console.log, you will see the underlying states in the console, with the most up-to-date values.

As an example, here is what you will see when you log a reactive array in the console:

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With this refactor, the bundle size of VanX changes slightly. Gzipped bundle increases to 1122 bytes (1.1kB) from 1106 bytes (1.1kB) (16 bytes increase), while minified bundle decreases to 2187 bytes (2.1kB) from 2191 bytes (2.1kB) (4 bytes decrease) - still being an ultra-lightweight extension to VanJS.

❤️ Hope you can enjoy!

[Tao-VanJS]

VanX 0.5.1 was just released. VanX 0.5.1 fixed a bug reported in #302, which was the issue of function-typed fields in reactive objects. The bug was introduced in VanX 0.5.0. Thanks @ericraider33 for reporting!

Users are advised to upgraded to VanX 0.5.1 to avoid the bug.

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Bundle size changes slightly with the bug fix. Gzipped bundle increases to 1131 bytes (1.1kB) from 1122 bytes (1.1kB) (9 bytes increase), while minified bundle decreases to 2148 bytes (2.1kB) from 2187 bytes (2.1kB) (39 bytes decrease).

[Tao-VanJS]

VanX 0.5.2 was just released. This release fixes a minor issue that only appears in the ESM integration of VanX. Thanks @ericraider33 again for reporting!

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Bundle size changes slightly with the bug fix. Gzipped bundle decreases to 1130 bytes (1.1kB) from 1131 bytes (1.1kB) (1 byte decrease), while minified bundle increases to 2150 bytes (2.1kB) from 2148 bytes (2.1kB) (2 bytes increase).