DeepSignal for Actor context

[matheo]

Looking the source code of ngrx/signals they convert the object to a Deep Signal:
https://github.com/ngrx/platform/blob/main/modules/signals/src/deep-signal.ts
and it seems very useful to extract the context variables (only?) of an Actor.

I've spawned an Actor and assigned it into the Context
and it would be nice if we can extract a Deep Signal from the child Actor context too.

[niklas-wortmann]

I was thinking about this and don't see the benefit for now. Can you elaborate on the use case or show some examples? This also reads like 2 separate requests deep signal vs exposed context?

Deep signal would mean an API like:
this.machine.snapshot().context.someProp().someNestedProp()
vs. exposed context
this.machine.someProp()

[matheo]

I've got an Actor with a large set of flags/stuff in its context to be rendered in the component
and the Deep Signal is a solution to access the singular data fields easily for these cases.

[niklas-wortmann]

Yeah I guess that makes sense. Sounds like a good idea. I will look into it at some point

[matheo]

In the meantime I'm using my own useSelector with a copy of toDeepSignal from ngrx
ngrx/platform#4533