A zero-fuss way to create non single page apps with react.
Project description
React Pages
A zero-fuss way to create non single page apps with react.
- Zero Configuration required. Mostly thanks to create-react-app.
- Custom react scripts inbuilt.
- Allows cross-page imports (create-react-app doesn't allow this).
- Ready-to-serve production builds with the proper paths.
(using
--static-url
option) - Natively use react in django.
- Go from development to production with ease.
- Donwloads npm packages only once, per virtualenv.
This means creating a new project is really fast (at the cost of installation time).
Terminology
Project
The project contains the node.js modules necessary to use react and the pages you create.
└── my_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.)
└── my_page
├── App.css
├── App.js
├── App.test.js
├── index.css
├── index.js
├── logo.svg
└── registerServiceWorker.js
Install
pip install react-pages
License: MIT License (MIT)
Requires: Python >=3.6
If you don't have node,
For bash, use nvm.
For fish shell, you can use fisher fnm
(get fisher).
Once you have npm/node, react pages will work as expected.
TODO: make react-pages automatically install node
Commands
$ react-pages project my_project # create a "project"
$ cd my_project # don't forget to do this!
$ react-pages page my_page # create a "page"
$ react-pages develop # development
$ react-pages deploy # production
# Open `./my_project/build/my_page/index.html` in browser
$ react-pages runserver # django runserver alternative
# installs the required npm packages, once and for all.
# automatically run when required.
$ react-pages cache
# removes npm packages
$ react-pages clear-cache
Django Integration
Remember to use react-pages runserver
instead of manage.py runserver
!
(This was done to remove the manual build step).
Setup
settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'react_pages',
...
]
# specify the react-pages project directory
REACT_PAGES_PROJECT_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'my_project')
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
...
os.path.join(REACT_PAGES_PROJECT_DIR, 'build') # mark the build dir as a static file dir
...
]
Usage
template.html
{% load react_pages %}
...
{% render_react_page 'my_page' %}
...
That's it!
React Pages will pick-up the "my_page" page from "my_project"
project and do the necessary work to transpile react JSX.
Django Context
You can pass django template context varialbes like so -
views.py
context['py_var'] = [1, 2, 3]
template.html
{% render_react_page 'my_page' js_var=py_var %}
App.js
console.log(js_var);
Note: These must be JSON serializable or JSON serialized.
Class Based View
views.py
from react_pages.views import ReactPageView
Class MyPageView(ReactPageView):
page_name = 'my_page'
urls.py
urlpatterns = [
...
path('my_page/', views.MyPageView.as_view(), name="my page"),
]
when you go over to 'my_page/' url, you'll see the react page rendered in its full glory!
To pass the a context to JS, define a get_js_context()
method
views.py
Class MyPageView(ReactPageView):
page_name = 'my_page'
def get_js_context(self):
return {'js_var': 'Hello!'}
App.js
console.log(js_var);
For production, just put DEBUG=False
in settings.py
and relax.
Note: This is not implemented yet.
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.
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