[UI][QUESTION] Too much imports

[benjaminforras]

Just a general idea and topic to talk about this.

While developing with the UI components I find myself importing a lot of brain directives and on top of them importing the respective helm directives, making the imports quite hard to maintain and keep track of.

Wouldn't it make sense to only import the helm directives? After all they are used with the brain directives.

Do someone have an idea how to make the imports not so cluttered? What do you guys think of this?

[goetzrobin]

Definitely a good point. I’m wondering if we should have the Helm components import their brain counterparts. I have adde module to improve the imports btw: BrnDialogModule & HlmDialogModule and so on will limit your imports to only two! Do you think that’s good enough? Do you think Hlm should be couple to brain via hostdirectives?

[benjaminforras]

I have adde module to improve the imports btw

Modules are definetely an improvement, yes and I think it can be a workaround for now.

Do you think Hlm should be couple to brain via hostdirectives?

I think so yes, however in this case we might need to reexport some of the inputs/outputs aswell so we can access them. Also I found out that some of the directives (for example brnCtxMenuTriggerFor's CdkContextMenuTrigger) doesn't have their underlying outputs exported, so we cannot use them. (Going with the referenced CdkContextMenuTrigger, cannot bind the (closed), (opened) events)

[elite-benni]

I also think that it is no problem to couple helm to brain.
I think I already did this in my PR (because i did not think of it as abproblem).
It also makes implementation of hlm much easier in some cases.

[JoshuaNitschke]

I didn't see the modules mentioned in docs. I was searching the discussion to see if anybody else was complaining about the number of imports - modules is a big improvement!