node-react-templates

Transparently require() .rt file from node with react-templates

Usage

require('node-react-templates').install()

Then you can use .rt file in the react components for server side rendering.

Example

The following is the example that using node-react-templates to render React components from node.

React Templates Code --hello.rt

<div>
  <h3>Hello World</h3>
</div>

React Components Code --hello.jsx

var React = require('react/addons');

var helloTemplate = require("./hello.rt");

var Hello = React.createClass({
  
  render: function() {
    
    return helloTemplate.apply(this);
    
  }

});

module.exports = Hello;

Server side rendering code --render.js

var React = require('react/addons');
require('node-jsx').install();
require('node-react-templates').install();

var compPath="./hello.jsx";

var component = require(compPath);
var contents = React.renderToString(React.createElement(component));

console.log(contents);

Test

You can use the following command to run mocha tests.

npm run test

the test script in under the folder test/.