gaearon / reactview

reactview lets you instantly view (and hot reload) any react component in your browser

##ReactView

##Install

npm install -g reactview

###Usage

This is the perfect tool for prototyping React components. Instead of setting up webpack to convert ES6 features or setup a server, it's as easy as:

	reactview component.jsx

It'll automagically compile it using webpack and babel, then start a server and open your browser. Optionally, you can specify the port as the second argument: reactview component.jsx 8000

It will also read json from stdin and pass them in as component props, eg:

	cat props.json | reactview example.jsx

###Example

The example component looks like:

	import React from 'react'
	import Test from './test.css'

	export default class Woah extends React.Component{
		render(){
			return <div className="test">this is sick</div>
		}
	}

No need to add React.render. CSS importing is also included.

How do I set what gets rendered?

You need to specify export default on the component you want rendered. In 0.5.2, you can explicitly pass the component / class name you want rendered: reactview component.jsx ComponentName. Useful if you're importing components and there are multiple exports.

##Contributing

To modify reactview, take a look at src/reactview.js. After making changes you'll need to do npm run build then npm install . -g if you're wanting to access it without doing node bin/reactview.js

###Todos

• passing props like --props {test: 'value'}
• allow .js files to be compiled (only .jsx is supported now)
• display error if component doesn't have a default export
• whatever you send in a pull request