mobx 6 and it's disencouragement of decorators

[filipnathanel]

Hi Guys!

I am currently assessing giving mobx-keystone a go on a smaller project, however, before doing so I am interested what are your opinions on keystone's use of decorators.

The maintainer of mobx writes about his rationale to abandon decorators in mobx 6.

Disclaimer: I love decorators, for me, the DX is way better than what's currently proposed in mobx, however, I have multiple concerns that stem from the fact that mobx-keystone so decorator centric:

• I will be working with some devs that didn't have a chance to work extensively with decorators
  • when pointing them to docs for mobx 6 they will certainly get confused as the docs don't support decorators any more
  • the non-decorator syntax for mobx-keystone is ... well let's just say that it looks like an optional compatibility layer that isn't quite to my DX taste.
• then there is that universality issue:
  • as in "will this thing that I have to learn to use mobx-keystone be transferable, especially with the new decorators syntax?"

A few questions to you:

• are you currently working in larger teams that have adopted mobx-keystone?
  • did you observe people getting on the decorators bandwagon without doc support from mobx side?
    • was there a major struggle or did adoption go fine?

Also if anyone from the maintainers happen to stumble across this thread:

• what's your stance on the misalignment between mobx and mobx-keystone when it comes to adoption of decorators?