Does elf support local state in angular?

[jon9090]

I mean could I initiate an elf state for a component and it will be destroyed after the component is destroyed?

[NetanelBasal]

You can create the store inside the component

[jon9090]

But could I destroy the state? For example, if I store an array of objects in the state, should I "clean" the state, or is there a function from elf that makes it destroy?

[NetanelBasal]

You can call store.destroy()

[jon9090]

I have another question: Is it possible to integrate elf with query from the ngneat repository? I noticed that query includes states for loading and loaded.

If so, Are you recommended to do so?

[luii]

For retrieving Entities from you backend this would be really redundant. Sure you have a loaded and loading state but query already has this functionality and is caching it for you, if you dont set a staleTime/gcTime (or aleast a really high one) in query it wont be garbage collected until that time (means it wont get cleaned up). And as long as this time isnt reached you have a cached result which would be returned first and background fetched right after it.

At the baseline i dont recommend to do so, i had it like this and almost every elf store i had was replaced by a service with one or more query function. For any non entity sure use elf or akita but when it comes down to entities, the server-state manager (as @tanstack/query is one) is plenty enough for this case. If you still think there is a use case for this, maybe the discussions from way back when version 1 was released could help you.

Other than that i'd recommend to read up on this article written by tanstack themself.