When the reactive `request` of a resource() notifies, it transitions to the
Loading state, fires the loader, and eventually transitions to Resolved.
With the prior implementation, a change of the `request` will queue the
effect, but the state remains unchanged until the effect actually runs. For
a brief period, the resource is in a state where the request has changed,
but the state has yet to update.
This is problematic if we want to use resources in certain contexts where we
care about the state of the resource in a synchronous way. For example, an
async validator backed by a resource might be checked after an update:
```
value.set(123);
if (validator.value()) {
// value is still valid, even though the resource is dirty and will soon
// flip to loading state (returning value(): undefined) while revalidating
}
```
To address this timing concern, `linkedSignal()` is used within the
`resource()` to synchronously transition the state in response to the
request changing. This ensures any followup reads see a consistent view of
the resource regardless of whether the effect has run.
This also addresses a race condition where `.set()` behaves differently on a
`resource()` depending on whether or not the effect has run.
PR Close#59024
Before this commit, a resource with a previous value wouldn't set the error state correctly.
This commit fixes this. A resource will set its status to error even when there was a previous valid value.
PR Close#58855
Implement a new experimental API, called `resource()`. Resources are
asynchronous dependencies that are managed and delivered through the signal
graph. Resources are defined by their reactive request function and their
asynchronous loader, which retrieves the value of the resource for a given
request value. For example, a "current user" resource may retrieve data for
the current user, where the request function derives the API call to make
from a signal of the current user id.
Resources are represented by the `Resource<T>` type, which includes signals
for the resource's current value as well as its state. `WritableResource<T>`
extends that type to allow for local mutations of the resource through its
`value` signal (which is therefore two-way bindable).
PR Close#58255
Alex Rickabaugh