ne-render (Node Engine Render)

Server rendering in NodeJS with React and React-Router

A tool to render pages Node Engine style on a NodeJS server.

Rendering React with React-Router on the server with Pre-Render Data from API's added to the state and props.

// Server Rendering with React Router but after getting data from a api request. // This version stores the data request in the page object for that path

Sample Server file

////////////////////////
// Create the Server
////////////////////////

var nodeEngineServer = require('ne-server');
var server = nodeEngineServer.init(process.env.PORT);

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect(process.env.MONGO_URL);


//////////////////////
// Static Assets
//////////////////////

var dirName = __dirname;
var cacheTime = 100;

nodeEngineServer.static(server, dirName, cacheTime);


///////////////
// REST API
///////////////

var mongoRest = require('ne-mongo-rest');

var apiPath = "/api";
mongoRest.server(server, dirName, apiPath);


//////////////////////////////
// Express Test
//////////////////////////////

server.use('/express', require('./server/express'));


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Rendering React with React-Router on the server with Pre-Render Data from API's
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var neRender = require('ne-render');
var appmeta = require ('./appmeta');
var routes = require ('./routes');

neRender.serverRender(server, appmeta, routes);

Sample routes File

'use strict';

import React from 'react';
import {Router, Route, DefaultRoute, NotFoundRoute } from 'react-router';

// Handlers
import MainHandler from './handlers/MainHandler.js';
import IndexHandler from './handlers/IndexHandler.js';
import AboutHandler from './handlers/AboutHandler.js';
import ContactHandler from './handlers/ContactHandler.js';
import PostsHandler from './handlers/PostsHandler.js';
import PeopleHandler from './handlers/PeopleHandler.js';
import NotFoundHandler from './handlers/NotFoundHandler.js';

var Routes = (
    <Route name="MainRoute" path="/" handler={MainHandler}>
        <Route name="about" path="about" handler={AboutHandler}></Route>
        <Route name="contact" path="contact" handler={ContactHandler}></Route>
        <Route name="posts" path="posts" handler={PostsHandler}></Route>
        <Route name="posts/:id" path="posts/:id" handler={PostsHandler}></Route>
        <Route name="people" path="people" handler={PeopleHandler}></Route>
        <DefaultRoute name="IndexRoute" handler={IndexHandler}></DefaultRoute>
        <NotFoundRoute name="NotFoundRoute" handler={NotFoundHandler}></NotFoundRoute>
    </Route>
);

export default Routes;

Sample appConfig File

var appmeta = {

    globals: {
        "APPNAME": "Node Engine Sample",
        "SITENAME": "Node Engine Sample",
        "DESCRIPTION": "A Example site for the Node Engine Approach"
    },

    paths: [

        {
            path: "/about",
            title: "About Us",
            description: "This is About Us page"
        },

        {
            path: "/contact",
            title: "Contact Us",
            description: "This is Contact Us page"
        },

        {
            path: "/posts",
            title: "Posts",
            description: "This is Posts page",

            nedBefore:
            {
                number: 1,
                nedb1:
                {
                    path: "http://localhost:3001/api/posts"
                }
            }
        },

        {
            path: "/something",
            title: "Something",
            description: "This is Something",

            nedCustom:
            {
                call:  "something"
            }
        }

    ],

    custom: function(meta, req){

        console.log('meta in custom at trans');
        console.log(meta);

        switch (meta.nedCustom.call){
            case 'something':
                console.log('something case matched');
                return this.something(meta, req);
        }
    },

    something: function (meta, req){

        // Example usage can be to use the req.params to change the meta title

        meta.title = "Dynamic Title for " + req.path;
        console.log('Do something with the routeMeta object before sending it back');
        return meta

    }

};

module.exports = appmeta;

Sample configDevelopment File

{
  "env": {
    "NODE_ENV"         : "development",
    "ROOTURL"          : "http://localhost:3001",
    "PORT"             : 3001,
    "MONGO_URL"        : "mongodb://username:[email protected]:27000/databasename",
    "SENDGRID_APIKEY"  : "xxx",
  }
}

Sample configProduction File

{
  "env": {
    "NODE_ENV"         : "production",
    "ROOTURL"          : "http://domain.com",
    "PORT"             : 3001,
    "MONGO_URL"        : "mongodb://username:[email protected]:27000/databasename",
    "SENDGRID_APIKEY"  : "xxx",
  }
}

Sample component file

import React from 'react';

class Head extends React.Component {

    render(){

        return (
            <head>
                <title>{`${this.props.meta.title} - ${this.props.meta.globals.SITENAME}`}</title>
                <meta name="description" content={this.props.meta.description}/>
                <link rel='stylesheet' href='/style.css' />
                <meta charSet="UTF-8" />
                <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
                <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
            </head>
        )

    }
}

export default Head;

Sample API file in the apiPath folder

var router = require('express').Router();
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var mongoRest = require('ne-mongo-rest');

var modelSchema = new Schema({
    firstName:{type: String, required: true},
    lastName:{type: String, required: true},
    email:{type: String, required: true},
    createdAt:{type: String, required: true, default: new Date()}
});

var Model = mongoose.model(
    'people',
    modelSchema,
    'people'
    );

mongoRest.model(router, Model);

module.exports = router;

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Bernard Hamann

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.