ng-reactify
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npm module for angularjs and reactjs integration
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ng-reactify
npm module to integrate angularjs and reactjs.
Motivation
I have been working with angularjs for more than 2 years. I am backend guy amazed with frontend world and I would like to make frontend development easier than it is. First of all, we need to think out of the box. Thinking about reactjs, especially, functional programming, it is a bit different from convetional OO programming so, (git it five minute)[https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes]. Seriously, it is just a new approach for new problems that we have been facing with the web evolution.
Consuming
require
var ngReactify = require('ng-reactify');
es6
import ngReactify from 'ng-reactify';
global/window
var ngReactify = window.ngReactify;
Angular-React integration example
Here is an angular app using es6. Notice the following comment after the code.
import angular from 'angular';
import 'angular-route';
import ngReactify from 'ng-reactify';
import HelloWorld from '../src/boilerplate/hello-world';
import Comment from '../src/boilerplate/comment';
import PagesRoutes from '../src/boilerplate/pages-routes';
// this counter component is already connected
import Counter from '../src/boilerplate/counter';
import store from '../src/boilerplate/store';
import { hashHistory } from 'react-router';
ngReactify.registerComponents({
HelloWorld,
Comment,
PagesRoutes,
Counter
});
const reactPageConfig = {
path: '/pages',
componentName: 'PagesRoutes',
history: hashHistory
};
const ngRouteConfig = {
// angular configuration for route
};
const reactCounterPageConfig = {
path: '/counter',
componentName: 'Counter',
store
};
const appName = 'app-angular';
const appModule = angular.module(appName, [ngReactify.name, 'ngRoute']);
appModule.config(['$routeProvider', ($routeProvider) => {
ngReactify.wrapRouteProvider($routeProvider)
.when('/', {
template: `
<div>
I AM ON THE HOME PAGE
<br />
<a href='#/hello-world/'>
Hello World
</a>
<br />
<a href='#/comment/'>
Comment
</a>
<br />
<a href='#/pages'>
Pages
</a>
<br />
<a href='#/counter'>
Counter
</a>
<br />
<a href='#/counter-no-wrappers'>
Counter (No Wrappers)
</a>
<br />
<a href='#/there-is-no-such-url/'>
There is no such URL
</a>
</div>
`
})
.when('/hello-world', {
template: `
<div>
<div ng-reactify-component="HelloWorld"></div>
</div>
`
})
.when('/comment', {
template: `
<div>
<div
ng-reactify-component="Comment"
props="{ author: 'Danilo Castro', text: 'Complete text!' }"
></div>
</div>
`
})
.react.when(reactPageConfig, ngRouteConfig)
.react.when(reactCounterPageConfig, ngRouteConfig)
.when('/counter-no-wrappers', {
controller: [function () {
const vm = this;
vm.store = store;
}],
controllerAs: 'vm',
template: `
<div>
<div
ng-reactify-component="Counter"
store="vm.store"
></div>
</div>
`
})
.otherwise({
template: '<h1>SORRY! ERROR!</h1>'
});
}]);
angular.element(document).ready(() => {
angular.bootstrap(document, [appName]);
});
React compoennts
For react components with links (it is very important, we just cover react-router), they must have a dynamic baseUrl like the following code. Doing so, the ng-reactify module is able to manage the route changes.
Look the method render inside the component below.
import React, {
Component
} from 'react';
class MyComponent extends Component
render() {
/**
* Whenever you are creating a link, it is likely to use a
* route management to provide access to other components.
* Thus, it is important capture the parent context path in
* order to define relative paths.
*
* Even if you are not using a route manager, this code
* handles well the capture of parent context path.
*
* Expected result for non-managed-routes: ''
* Expected result for managed-routes: <the-correct-parent-url>
*/
const index = (this.props.routes || []).indexOf(this.props.route || {});
const basePath = this.props.routes
.slice(0, index)
.filter(route => !!route.path)
.map(route => route.path)
.join('/');
return (
<div>
<nav>
<IndexLink to={[basePath, '/'].join('')}>Home</IndexLink>
<br />
<Link to={[basePath, '/contact'].join('')}>Contact</Link>
<br />
<Link to={[basePath, '/../'].join('')}>Angular Home</Link>
</nav>
{this.props.children}
</div>
);
}
Please, check out our DEV folder, you will find out a proper example. Once you install the ng-reactify module, go to node_modules/ng-reactify/DEV and have a look on app-angular file.
Happy for sharing it!
Thanks for all support and help us making pull request to optimise this module!