add actionview-component

[joelhawksley]

Project

https://github.com/github/actionview-component
https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/actionview-component
https://rubygems.org/gems/actionview-component/

What is this Ruby project?

ActionView::Component is a framework for building view components in Rails.

ActionView::Components are Ruby classes that are used to render views. They take data as input and return output-safe HTML. Think of them as an evolution of the presenter/decorator/view model pattern, inspired by React Components.

What are the main difference between this Ruby project and similar ones?

ActionView::Component is similar to other view component libraries, but is specifically designed for tight conceptual integration into Rails. It is an extraction from the GitHub monolith.

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[markets]

Hi @joelhawksley and thanks a lot for contributing here 👍

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think View components were merged to Rails, or at least, I remember an open PR with quite similar feature.

[joelhawksley]

@markets that PR, rails/rails#36388, only had preliminary support (I'm the author if it 😄), enabling libraries such as ActionView::Component to hook into Rails.

actionview-component is the library itself, where we're working on what we plan to upstream into Rails eventually.

[markets]

Ah yes! I'm speaking about that pull request 👍

I'm a bit confused now 🤔... so Rails master has preliminary "support", but still not ready to use actionview-component (like minimal hooks and alike to allow to "patch" Rails view rendering pipeline)? Or actionview-component can be used, but this library adds more features?

[joelhawksley]

Rails master has the hooks necessary to use the actionview-component gem, which provides the ActionView::Component base class for building view components.

[markets]

ok, understood, I just made a quick look at the PR diff 👍

Nice project! would be amazing to merge this upstream 👌

[joelhawksley]

Closing this PR as we are planning to rename the gem.