react-rails in Jekyll

[schoenwaldnils]

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Hi there,

is there a way to use this in an Jekyll-enviroment?
I'm looking for a way to prerender react-components using Jekyll, but can't find any good way to do this. I hope this gem could help there.

[rmosolgo]

I don't think it will be very easy to use this with Jekyll but I can point you towards a few of the building blocks!

If you want to transform JSX with Ruby, have a look at https://github.com/babel/ruby-babel-transpiler.

If you want to render components with Ruby, check out the ExecJSRenderer. It starts an ExecJS context, loads React.js, then uses the context to render React components.

If you want to mount components on an HTML page, have a look at the ReactRailsUJS, which mounts components into placeholder divs: https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails/tree/master/lib/assets/javascripts

I hope that helps! Feel free to reopen if you have specific questions about any of those.

[fernandes]

@rmosolgo thank you for replying this issue, I found this command a little late (about 1 and a half year hahah), but I used this as an inspiration to get SSR working on jekyll... if someone is interested, just check this repo, thank you! 🙇