Hey forums, I am experiencing a weird issue with timing an exposed state from a client-side action. Some useful background: I am using a client-side action, not an element action, because there is a bug where you cannot return context.async functions more than one time per browser session. I am s…

Have you tried triggering an event after publishing the state? It’s a common pitfall, but it is solved already.

Issue with timing an exposed state

aaronsheldon July 7, 2022, 9:24pm 5

As a general rule of thumb when designing plugin elements, publishState(s) and triggerEvent should be called in pairs. Heuristically it is the “You’ve got mail” notification.

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Issue with timing an exposed state

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