Reactor

This is a little experiment I did when first looking at React.

For a complete Router look at React-Nested-Router, Ryan has done a stella job on this!

Please only consider this an experiment.

See the example for usage.

Router

Requires Backbone.History history/pushState monitoring and borrows from Backbone.Router for routing logic.

Reactor.Router listens to route/hash change events and implements the routing logic on it's own route list.

This allows Reactor.Router to have multiple router instances, unlinke Backbone.Router.

This also allows for Reactor.Router to implement a crude "contexual routing" implementation. A context route is represented by a tailing /*.

Any child of a Reactor.Router is considered a route destination if it has the prop route. All routes are considered contextual to parent React.Routers. To define an "Absoulte" route, add the prop absolute.

React.Navigate is a wrapper around <a/> where the href is the location to navigate to. This href is considered contextual to the parent React.Routers. To define an "Absoulte" route, add the prop absolute.

React.Navigate will also let you pass prop silent to route without placing a history event.

If you have props conflict, Reactor.Route is provided as a wrapper. React.Route will pass and derived fragments to all children.

React.Router is built on top of Reactor.SwitchView.

Props notFound - Is passed to SwitchView as else. I.E. notFound is the 404 of the router (default <span />). pushState - If true will tell Backbone.history.start to use {pushStart:true}.

React.Router will start Backbone.History automatically if not already started. To use custom Backbone.history.start() options unsure Backbone.history.start is called before any React.Router components are rendered.

Example

React.renderComponent(
	<Router>
		<p route="/">Hello World!</p>
		<p route="/moon">Hello Moon!</p>
	</Router>
, domNode);

Route /moon will render <p>Hello Moon!</p>.

Example Props Passed / Dynamic Routes

var HelloWho = React.renderComponent({
	render:function(){
		return <p>Hello {this.props.who}!</p>
	}
});

React.renderComponent(
	<Router>
		<p route="/">Hello World!</p>
		<HelloWho route="/hello/:who" />
	</Router>
, domNode);

Route /hello/Moon will render <p>Hello Moon!</p>.

Example Contextual

React.renderComponent(
	<Router>
		<p route="/">Hello World!</p>
		<Router route="hello/*">
			<p route="/moon">Hello Moon!</p>
			<p route="/sun">Hello Sun!</p>
		</Router>
	</Router>
, domNode);

Route /hello/moon will render <p>Hello Moon!</p>.

Components

SwitchView

This is core of most Reactor components. SwitchView allows you to change what is being rendered by index or id.

Props

• show - Select what child to render (default 0 or else if supplied). If null supplied, then else will be rendered.
• else - ReactComponent to render when show is now found. (default to )

Warning: else default will change in future version to not render anything, React currenlty doesn't support rendering nothing.

Example index

React.renderComponent(
	<SwitchView show="1">
		<p>Hello World!</p>
		<p>Hello Moon!</p>
	</SwitchView>
, domNode);

Will render <p>Hello Moon!</p>.

Example id

React.renderComponent(
	<SwitchView show="moon">
		<p id="world">Hello World!</p>
		<p id="moon">Hello Moon!</p>
	</SwitchView>
, domNode);

Will render <p>Hello Moon!</p>.

Plans Include

• Router - done!
• Route - done!
• Navigate - done!
• LoaderView - done!
• Animate - done!
• SwitchView - done!
• Model
• Collection
• Better Documentation
• Better Build tools
• NPM module
• ServerSide rendering made easy

TODO

• Make Router use it's own instance of Backbone.History not the default on or pass a history object.
• All child routers to use top Router history.
• Set history on top Router. throw if history set twice.
• on instanciate create new history if not given.

All designed specifically for React.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Karl Mikkelsen

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