react-pages 0.1.0

A zero-fuss way to create non single page apps with react.

React Pages

A zero-fuss way to create non single page apps with react.

• Zero Configuration required.
• Go from development to production with ease.

Features

• custom react scripts
• Imports from other pages (create-react-app doesn't allow that)
• Natively use react in django.
• Ready-to-serve production builds with the proper paths. (using --static-url option)

Terminology

Project

The project contains the node.js modules necessary to use react and the pages you create.

└── project
    ├── package.json
    ├── package-lock.json
    ├── .env
    ├── .gitignore
    ├── public
    │   ├── favicon.ico
    │   ├── index.html
    │   └── manifest.json
    <pages>

Page:

A page is a directory containing at least an index.js file, (and other css/js files specific to your application.)

└── page
    ├── App.css
    ├── App.js
    ├── App.test.js
    ├── index.css
    ├── index.js
    ├── logo.svg
    └── registerServiceWorker.js

QuickStart

pip install react-pages

Commands :

$ react-pages project poll_react_pages # create a project

$ cd poll_react_pages

$ react-pages page vote # create a page

$ react-pages react_pages # development

$ react-pages deploy # production

$ react-pages runserver # django runserver alternative

Django Integration

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'react_pages',
    ...
]

# React Pages
REACT_PAGES_PROJECT_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'my_project')  # specify the react-pages project

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    ...
    os.path.join(REACT_PAGES_PROJECT_DIR, 'build')  # mark the build dir as static file dir
    ...
]

template.html

{% load react_pages %}
...
{% render_react_page 'vote' %}
...

Remeber to use react-pages runserver instead of manage.py runserver!

That's it! React Pages will pick-up the "vote" page from "poll_react_pages" project and do the necessary work to transpire react JSX.

Django Context

You can pass django template context varialbes like so -

views.py context['foo'] = [1, 2, 3]

template.html {% render_react_page 'vote' foo=foo %}

Then access these anywhere in react code console.log(foo);

Note: These must be JSON serialize-able

For production, just put DEBUG=False in settings.py and relax.

Existing projects

React Pages will automatically patch itsef into any existing project, that was created using create-react-app.

Just run react-pages project . from your project directory!

Projects not using create-react-app will probably work, but no guarantees can be made.