Owin support/documentation?

[delaneyj]

Coming from a node.js world but would love to use ReactJS with Nancy and an Owin container. Are there any gotchas I should be concerned with? This might be related to the vNext support issue.

[Daniel15]

Hi @delaneyj! OWIN support was only merged last night in #69. Currently there's no documentation on how to use it, and I actually haven't tried it out myself. As far as I can see, this only covers JSX transformation (built on top of StaticFileMiddleware), it doesn't cover server-side rendering.

cc @mandrek44 - It would be good to get some basic documentation on this functionality :)

[mandrek44]

@delaneyj there's a sample showing the server-side JSX transformation with OWIN: https://github.com/reactjs/React.NET/tree/master/src/React.Sample.Owin

Regarding the server-side rendering - Katana has no built-in rendering mechanism, however you can use Razor manually and could probably use the same mechanism as in MVC for sever side rendering. I'll investigate.

@Daniel15 I'll try to add some documentation soon!

[Daniel15]

Haven't seen any other requests for OWIN documentation and I feel like it's not as popular any more with ASP.NET 5 running on its own stack, so I'm going to close this out.