Do I need to return **all** refs from the setup store?

[Ilanaya]

As mentioned in the docs we need to return all state properties, created with ref(), from a setup function.

It was not clear to me and my colleagues, whether this rules apply to any ref's created in the setup setup function, e.g. refs which are created with storeToRefs.

Example

const usePrivateUserRightsStore = defineStore(`private`, () => {
  const isAdmin = ref(false);

  return {
    isAdmin,
  };
});

export default defineStore(`public`, () => {
  const { isAdmin } = storeToRefs(usePrivateUserRightsStore()); // do I need to return `isAdmin` from this store?

  const checkIsAdmin = () => isAdmin.value;

  return {
    checkIsAdmin,
  };
});

For this discussion I have 3 question:

1. Do I need to return all actual ref's from setup store?
2. Do you have examples/test when not returning state properties from the store break something?
3. Do you have explanation why this is important? As I can see from the source code this limitation most probably related to the effectScrope API but I didn't find any confirmation.

[posva]

1. Yes, all ref and reactive calls inside the store must be returned
2. This article should help: https://masteringpinia.com/blog/how-to-create-private-state-in-stores
3. The limitation does not come from effectScope. It's about pinia detecting state properties or not. The article explains the cases where this breaks

Regarding your example, any storeToRefs() implies an already existing reactive state, so you don't return that, it would duplicate the state in pinia.state.value