Laravel React

Add React.js support seamlessly for Laravel Blade templates.

Installation

Add this to your project's composer.json

"require": {
	"allantatter/laravel-react": "0.1.*"
},

Then run

$ composer update

Service provider & alias

Add this to the providers array in config/app.php

'AllanTatter\React\ReactServiceProvider',

Add this to the aliases array in config/app.php

'React' => 'AllanTatter\React\Facades\React',

Setup server-rendering with Node.js application

In this repository, you'll find a directory named example and inside that is resources. Copy paste its content to your own project's resources directory and in addition to that merge the package.json file from example directory into your own project's package.json.

Then in your project's root dir, run

$ npm install -g nodemon

$ npm install
$ npm start

If you put server.js in another location, you may have to configure this line inside that file

require('dotenv').load({path: '../../.env'});

Usage

Inside your Blade view, you can render React component like this

{!! React::component('ComponentName', $props) !!}

To render react-router routes, you can use this

{!! React::router('routesFileName', $props) !!}

Configuration

If you're not happy with default configuration, you can manage a few variables through .env file, following are default values:

REACT_SERVER_URL=http://localhost
REACT_SERVER_PORT=3000
REACT_COMPONENTS_DIR=components
REACT_EXTENSION=jsx

Snippets that may come in handy

Handle 404 pages with react-router by rendering your react application with adding this snippet into app/Exceptions/Handler.php, method render()

if ($e instanceof \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException)
{
	return response(view('react.app.view'));
}