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                                            James Arthur

Write a walkthrough tutorial for an Electric web app

Yup, I think it can be a linear pathway and an opportunity to help clarify the misconceptions of what you can sync into; but also maybe a step too far....

Document how to unsubscribe to shapes

Hey @rgenge thanks for this, really appreciate the input, thanks for the contribution :) Generally the best way to do this is to make a Pull Request with the changes...

Document how to unsubscribe to shapes

Just wondering what the best pattern is for use shape when the params change. Iiuc, the useEffect cleanup function runs each time the useEffect rerun args change? So a useEffect...

Document how to unsubscribe to shapes

Maybe some useShape specific options to abort-on-change/unmount. Then only auto-cleanup if told to.

Document how to create and use types

Nice -- a Types guide or part of the Typescript client docs?

Write "how to benchmark Electric for your application" tutorial

Added to https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/milestone/2 as I'll try to document this when adding the initial benchmarks page. Can be some pointers into readme steps to start with.

Only send up-to-date control header for responses with short cache timeouts

I think we need to carefully look at this.

Move `stream.subscribe()` to be part of the constructor

Is there not a slight chicken and egg thing of needing to instantiate a Shape to have the subscribers to instantiate the ShapeStream which is needed to instantiate the Shape...

Move `stream.subscribe()` to be part of the constructor

I like the reduce API.

Implement backwards-compatible transition from 409 to 205 status code for shape expiry

Minor but obvious thought, just to ask the question: could we use a header instead of a param? I would see a header as more appropriate for client version /...