react-html-converter

This module converts a raw HTML string to a React element or an array of React elements. Component rendering is also supported.

Want to use this module with Preact? Checkout the Preact version - preact-html-converter

Installation

Install via npm:
npm install --save react-html-converter

or yarn:
yarn add react-html-converter

General Info

This module ships with two integrations. One for node and one for the browser.
The main reason behind having to versions is that altough the node version also works in the browser, the usage of parse5 does add a lot to the overall bundle filesize. Therefore the browser version uses the native DOMParser instead of parse5 to handle the html string parsing.

Module usage is the same for node and for the browser.

If you use this module in node.js just import the node integration:

import ReactHTMLConverter from 'react-html-converter/node'

If you use it in the browser import the browser integration:

import ReactHTMLConverter from 'react-html-converter/browser'

Example

import React from 'react';
import ReactHTMLConverter from 'react-html-converter/node';

class Test extends React.Component {
    render() (
        return <div>{this.props.text}</div>;
    );
}

const converter = new ReactHTMLConverter();
converter.registerComponent('test', Test);

const html = '<div class="my-div"><Test text="Hello World" /></div>';

class App extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (
            <div className="my-app">
                {converter.convert(html)}
            </div>
        );
    }
}

As shown in the above example the ReactHTMLConverter just takes a simple HTML string as an argument and returns a React element or an array of React elements. Those elements can then be easily used in other React components.

The ReactHTMLConverter is also able to create React components from the HTML string. To make this work all components must be registered in the converter before converting the HTML string. Just pass in the name of the component's tag and the component itself and the converter will convert those components if they appear in the HTML string.

Please note that any sibling nodes of a React component will not be rendered! Make sure to wrap the component with a div element.

Static rendering

If you just want to quickly render a html string, you can import the convertStatic function of this module. With this function only the root node will be converted to a React element. All child nodes will be rendered with dangerouslySetInnerHTML.

Disclosure

This module was heavily inspired by react-render-html.

License

MIT