A new name?

[aaronmw]

Just curious: a) where the name comes from and b) whether there's appetite for changing it, or considering alternatives.

These hooks could really lower the barrier to entry for building front-end stuff in Cosmos, but the name isn't doing it any favours re: discoverability. Even prefixing react- onto the library name per React conventions could be helpful, maybe?? Nit-picky, but wanted to have the discussion!

[grikomsn]

Thank you for the interest, @aaronmw! 😄

Previously me and @codingki named this project wadesta "because reasons"¹, then after internal meetings and brainstorming with the engineering team we decide the new name will be graz, which is a name of the city where Johannes Kepler (yes, as in the Keplr Wallet) teach mathematics at a seminary school².

Re: discoverability, some teammates do agree that having a generic name would be better. Here is one of the feedbacks from our internal discussion:

I tend to default to the arguably boring, but also explicit. react-cosmos-hooks or something ...

On the other side, we have libs like wagmi which could have been called react-ethereum-hooks. This kind of naming is more fun to brand, etc. but also means people wont know what it does at first glance.

As the project author, I prefer having a short and unique name so it sticks like wagmi. But if the community prefers something around react-cosmos-hooks, use-keplr, or anything, we would consider it in the future. In the meantime, we're focusing on adding functionalities and working with various cosmos developers to improve the library.

Again, thank you for the interest!

Footnotes

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ryL1zNsho ↩

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler ↩

[aaronmw]

I hadn't heard of wagmi but seeing it as react-ethereum-hooks got me instantly psyched about it 😜 Anyway, I appreciate that naming is low on your list. When you do go seeking adoption though, I think that name change would be a huge boon. useKeplr is 👌