Using this lib without Express

If you need to use the backend for Beagle in Typescript, but can't use Express, you should use only the libs @zup-it/beagle-backend-core and @zup-it/beagle-backend-components. Everything in this documentation, but the resources imported from @zup-it/beagle-backend-express are valid for this scenario.

The main difference is that you won't have access to the type Screen and the dependencies injected into it, but although they help a lot and prevent small mistakes, they're not necessary to develop a Beagle Application. Instead of using the type Screen, you should use FC to create the screens.

You'll also not have access to the BeagleApp class, so every route must be registered manually in the server technology of your preference. The important thing here that has not been mentioned in the rest of this documentation is the method serialize. This method is implicitly called by the BeagleApp when using Express, but in this case, it should be called manually. This method is responsible for taking a JSX element (or an instance of Component) and serializing it into a JSON string. See the example below:

import { BeagleJSX, serialize } from '@zup-it/beagle-backend-core'

const MyScreen: FC = () => <>Hello World</>

const myScreenAsJson: string = serialize(MyScreen())

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