# Introduction
Avoid having multiple `isDefined` definition across our pacakges
Also avoid importing `isDefined` from `twenty-ui` which exposes a huge
barrel for a such little util function
## In a nutshell
Removed own `isDefined.ts` definition from `twenty-ui` `twenty-front`
and `twenty-server` to move it to `twenty-shared`.
Updated imports for each packages, and added explicit dependencies to
`twenty-shared` if not already in place
Related PR https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/pull/9941
This PR refactors the view module to implement utils that avoid having
to create hooks to inject the scope id in the states, like
`useViewStates`, each componentState will know its unique related
InstanceContext (which holds the instanceId), and thus will be able to
retrieve it itself.
We keep the naming componentState as it reflects the fact that those
states are tied to instances of a component (or its children).
We introduce the instance word where it is needed, in place of scopeId
for example, to precise the fact that we handle instances of component
state, one for each instance of a component.
For example, the currentViewId is a state that is tied to an instance of
the ViewBar, but as we can switch between views, we want currentViewId
to be a componentState tied to an instance of the ViewBar component.
This PR also refactors view filter and sort states to fix this issue :
https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/issues/6837 and other problems
involving resetting those states between page navigation.
Fixes https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/issues/6837
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Co-authored-by: Charles Bochet <charles@twenty.com>
When writing to the normalized cache (record), it's crucial to use _refs
for relationships to avoid many problems. Essentially, we only deal with
level 0 and generate all fields to be comfortable with their defaults.
When writing in queries (which should be very rare, the only cases are
prefetch and the case of activities due to the nested query; I've
reduced this to a single file for activities
usePrepareFindManyActivitiesQuery 🙂), it's important to use queryFields
to avoid bugs. I've implemented them on the side of query generation and
record generation.
When doing an updateOne / createOne, etc., it's necessary to distinguish
between optimistic writing (which we actually want to do with _refs) and
the server response without refs. This allows for a clean write in the
optimistic cache without worrying about nesting (as the first point).
To simplify the whole activities part, write to the normalized cache
first. Then, base queries on it in an idempotent manner. This way,
there's no need to worry about the current page or action. The
normalized cache is up-to-date, so I update the queries. Same idea as
for optimisticEffects, actually.
Finally, I've triggered optimisticEffects rather than the manual update
of many queries.
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Co-authored-by: Lucas Bordeau <bordeau.lucas@gmail.com>
