Server-side rendering without ASP.NET MVC

[danieldegtyarev]

Is it possible using React.NET?

[Daniel15]

Sure! See HtmlHelperExtensions.cs to see how it's hooked up in ASP.NET MVC. You could just call the same methods some other way. In 0dbd639 I added an example showing how to render a React component from within a console application. There's a bit more code than I'd like, but it does work.

Basically, this is the code you need for server-side rendering:

var environment = React.AssemblyRegistration.Container.Resolve<IReactEnvironment>();
var component = environment.CreateComponent("HelloWorld", new { name = "Daniel" });
var html = component.RenderHtml();

You can then use environment.GetInitJavaScript() to get the JavaScript required to initialise all the instantiated components client-side. IReactEnvironment should be a per-request singleton (that is, every request creates a new one, but that same instance is shared throughout the entire request).

Hope that helps :)

[danieldegtyarev]

Many thanx for the detailed answer, Daniel!
I haven't tried yet, but it looks pretty helpful.