Future plans for __x.$data property and potential deprecation

[gaslit]

Hello all. Massive kudos to Caleb, Hugo and the AlpineJS team and community for a magnificent Javascript library that is well designed.

One simple and yet pressing question:
https://codewithhugo.com/alpinejs-inspect-component-data-from-js/

With regards to the above, I have been using this __x.$data undocumented hack for a long time and I am wondering if

1. There is a better way of accessing out of scope data properties in pure Javascript?

2. Are there any risks of it being deprecated in any upcoming updates?

Many thanks.

[HugoDF]

1. There's a $component helper at https://github.com/alpine-collective/alpine-magic-helpers (which uses the same $data approach under the hood)

2. Will have to wait for @calebporzio to demo/release v3, I don't think there are plans to change anything in v2, I'm sure even in v3 there'll be something similar (at the very least so that devtools can access/read state)

Side note: Alpine is Caleb's project, I only write random blog posts 😉.

[anantakrishna]

2. Doesn't seem so: __x.data return undefined #1543

[HugoDF]

There's _x_dataStack although it's now an array so accessing data is el._x_dataStack[0] although like that discussion says it's probably an anti pattern now