magnolia-react-templating
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Use React JSX Components in Magnolia templates (e.g. Freemarker).
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Magnolia-React-Templating
This small utility allows you to use React JSX components directly in Magnolia templates (e.g. Freemarker).
How does it work
To get started, you should set up a frontend project with npx create-react-app.
The main entry point for your application is src/index.js. Please remove the default content and replace it with the content below. This file registers all React components which you want to use within Magnolia templates.
import { render } from "magnolia-react-templating";
import "./index.css";
import Layout from "./components/Layout";
import Headline from "./components/Headline";
import Text from "./components/Text";
import Image from "./components/Image";
render({ Layout, Headline, Text, Image }, document.getElementById("root"));Now adapt your page template in Magnolia (e.g. backend/light-modules/react-demo/templates/pages/ContentPage.ftl), so the React bundle is loaded into your page. Here's an example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
[@cms.page /]
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>${content.windowTitle!content.title!}</title>
</head>
<body>
[#-- Create a root container for React. --]
<div id="root">
[#-- Put JSX into a script-tag below the root --]
<script type="text/jsx">
<Layout>
[@cms.area name="main"/]
</Layout>
</script>
</div>
<script src="http://localhost:3000/static/js/bundle.js"></script>
<script src="http://localhost:3000/static/js/0.chunk.js"></script>
<script src="http://localhost:3000/static/js/1.chunk.js"></script>
<script src="http://localhost:3000/static/js/main.chunk.js"></script>
</body>
</html>And here is an example on how to wire up a Freemarker template with JSX code (e.g. backend/light-modules/react-demo/templates/components/Image.ftl):
[#assign image = damfn.getAsset(content.image)]
[#assign imageLink = image.link]
<Image
url="${imageLink}"
alt="${content.caption!'image'}"
rounded={${(content.rounded!false)?c}}
/>The corresponding React component looks like this (e.g. frontend/src/components/Image.js):
import React from "react";
export default Image({ url, alt, rounded })(
<figure>
<img className={rounded ? "is-rounded" : ""} src={url} alt={alt} />
</figure>
);