feat: Refactored to avoid useState in lib/findPaths.js

Note: This is important because it allows for restarting
the utility-function extractor. It also makes for code
which is more understandable.

lib/comparisonView.js

@@ -88,8 +88,9 @@ export default function ComparisonView({ listOfElementsForView }) {
     setQuantitativeComparisons(initialQuantitativeComparisons)
     setIsListOrdered(initialIsListOdered)
     setOrderedList(initialOrderedList)
-    changeNumSteps(0)
+    changeNumSteps(initialNumSteps)
     removeOldSvg()
+    setTableRows(initialTableRows)
   }
 
   let changeDataSet = (listOfElementsNew) => {
@@ -209,16 +210,26 @@ export default function ComparisonView({ listOfElementsForView }) {
     setReasoning('')
     changeNumSteps(numSteps + 1)
     if (successStatus) {
+
       let jsObject = nicelyFormatLinks(quantitativeComparisons, listOfElements)
       await pushToMongo(jsObject)
       console.log(jsObject)
+
       alert("Comparisons completed. Background work might take a while, or straight-out fail")
       setTimeout(async () => {
         // Make sure to do this after the 
         setIsListOrdered(true)
         setOrderedList(result)
         
-      }, 500);
+        await buildRows({ 
+          isListOrdered: true, 
+          orderedList: result, 
+          listOfElements, 
+          links: buildLinks(newQuantitativeComparisons), 
+          rows: tableRows, 
+          setTableRows })
+        
+      }, 100);
     }
   }
 

lib/findPaths.js

@@ -189,8 +189,7 @@ export async function buildRows({ isListOrdered, orderedList, listOfElements, li
     }
     // return rows
 }
-
-export function CreateTableWithDistances({ isListOrdered, orderedList, listOfElements, links, tableRows, setTableRows }) {
+export function CreateTableWithDistancesWithUseEffect({ isListOrdered, orderedList, listOfElements, links, tableRows, setTableRows }) {
     
     useEffect(async () => {
         await buildRows({ isListOrdered, orderedList, listOfElements, links, rows: tableRows, setTableRows })
@@ -225,6 +224,44 @@ export function CreateTableWithDistances({ isListOrdered, orderedList, listOfEle
         */
     }); // this useEffect should ideally only work when isListOrdered changes, but I haven't bothered to program that.
     
+
+    return (
+        <div>
+            <table className="">
+                <thead>
+                    <tr >
+                        <th >Id</th>
+                        <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
+                        <th >Position</th>
+                        <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
+                        <th >Element</th>
+                        <th> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
+                        <th >Possible relative values</th>
+                        <th> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
+                        <th >Average relative value</th>
+                    </tr>
+                </thead>
+                <tbody>
+                    {tableRows.map(row => <tr key={row.id}>
+                        <td className="" >{row.id}</td>
+                        <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+                        <td className="" >{row.position}</td>
+                        <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+                        <td className="">{row.name}</td>
+                        <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+                        <td className="">{abridgeArrayAndDisplay(row.distances)}</td>
+                        <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+                        <td className="">{formatLargeOrSmall(avg(row.distances))}</td>
+                    </tr>
+                    )}
+                </tbody>
+            </table>
+        </div>
+    )
+
+}    
+
+export function CreateTableWithDistances({ tableRows }) {
     return (
         <div>
             <table className="">