Hapi React Helper

Plugin to easily add react to your hapi app

Ported over from Express react helper - Hapi React Helper sets up React Helper and adds some convenience methods to make it even easier to add react to your app and bypass all of the setup.

How to use it

npm install -g react-helper

npm install hapi-react-helper --save

react-helper init -w

Wherever your plugins are added

server.register(require('./hapi-react-helper'), (err) => {

In the Controller/handler

request.server.app.renderComponent will make the rendered component accessible in the view by the component's name

  function(request, reply) {
    const SignUp = request.server.app.renderComponent('SignUp')
    reply.view('view-to-render', { SignUp });    
  }

In the View: example using handlebars templating engine

   <h1>This view has react in it</h1>
   {{{SignUp}}}

Javascript entry point

This is compiled by webpack and what tells the browser to render the react component you've specified in your controller/view. Read more about setting up webpack here

 const reactHelper = require('reactHelper');
 const SomeComponent = require('./path/to/a/component');
   
 reactHelper.register({SignUp});

Features

• Hapi React Helper has a few added features, but it can also do anything else React Helper can do.

  • You can check out React Helper's feature list here

• Context - Add data to context to be available in every react component rendered with ReactHelper

  • This can be a helpful way to pass server side configs to your react components, login state, or any other props multiple components will need that you don't feel like added to every controller/handler's renderComponent.

  You can add to context like this:

  Wherever your middleware is setup

    server.app.addToReactContext({baseUrl: 'www.myapp.com'});

  Or by adding to server.app.reactHelperContext:

  Anywhere you have access to server

    server.app.reactHelperContext.userName = user.userName;

Contributing

Feel free to open issues or pull requests!