musreact

Mustache template to react component compiler

Demo

http://lovasoa.github.io/musreact/

How to use

Directly in html

Compile the mustache template on the client.

<script scr="http://lovasoa.github.io/musreact/js/musreact.js"></script>
<script src="http://facebook.github.io/react/js/react.js"></script>

<!-- The react component will be mounted here -->
<div id="mountpoint"></div>

<script>
var mustacheStr = "<p>Your name is <em>{{name}}</em></p>";
var jsondata    = {name: "Gérard Bouchard"};

var source = parser.parse(mustacheStr);

// Create a react component
var reactComponent = eval(source);

// Use it
React.render(
    React.createElement(reactComponent, jsondata),
    document.getElementById("mountpoint")
);
</script>

Server compiling

Just save the output of parser.parse(mustacheString), and serve it as a normal js file.

An simple script could be:

var fs = require("fs");
var parse = require("musreact").parse;

var jsSource = parse(fs.readFileSync("react-component.mustache", "utf-8"));

fs.writeFileSync("react-component.js", "MyComponent = " + jsSource);

It reads the template from react-component.mustache and saves the compiled react component to react-component.js. The component will then be accessible through the global variable MyComponent.