babel-plugin-display-name-custom

display name inference for your custom react component creators

so that instead of

you could see

in React Developer Tools for code like

import {createComponent} from "./create";

const Container = createComponent("div", {
    border: "1px solid black",
});

const Red = createComponent("div", {
    color: "red",
});

const Green = createComponent("div", {
    color: "green",
});

const Blue = createComponent("div", {
    color: "blue",
});

const Root = () => (
    <Container>
        <Red>red</Red>
        <Green>green</Green>
        <Blue>blue</Blue>
    </Container>
);

usage

install

yarn add babel-plugin-display-name-custom

add display-name-custom to .babelrc

{
    "presets": ["es2015", "react"],
    "plugins": [
        "syntax-object-rest-spread",
        "transform-object-rest-spread",
        ["display-name-custom", {
            "modules": {
                "./create": {
                    "createComponent": true
                }
            }
        }]
    ]
}

The modules object is a mapping of module names to the exported functions which return new React components.

In the above example ./create is

export const createComponent = (Component, styles) => {
    return props => <Component {...props} style={styles} />;
};

You can also add inference to 3rd party modules

{
    "modules": {
        "react-redux": {
            "connect": true
        }
    }
}

The default export can be added using the default keyword

{
    "modules": {
        "create-component": {
            "default": true
        }
    }
}

how it works?

After the plugin is configured it knows which functions return new React components. Using that information it scans your source code for variable declarations which are initialized using those. When a declaration is found it sets the displayName property of the component to the variable name.

In practice it transpiles

const Red = createComponent("div", {
    color: "red",
});

to

const Red = createComponent("div", {
    color: "red",
});
Red.displayName = "Red";

library author?

For library authors the plugin also exports a createPlugin factory for generating preconfigured library specific display name plugins.

Just add babel.js to the root of your npm module with contents like

module.exports = require("babel-plugin-display-name-custom").createPlugin({
    modules: {
        "mylib": {createComponent: true},
    },
});

and your users then can use it with just

{
    "presets": ["es2015", "react"],
    "plugins": [
        "mylib/babel"
    ]
}

Checkout react-simple for a real world example