Grunt task for compiling Facebook React's JSX templates into JavaScript.
It also works great with grunt-browserify
!
This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-react --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-react');
In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named react
to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig()
.
grunt.initConfig({
react: {
single_file_output: {
files: {
'path/to/output/dir/output.js': 'path/to/jsx/templates/dir/input.jsx'
}
},
combined_file_output: {
files: {
'path/to/output/dir/combined.js': [
'path/to/jsx/templates/dir/input1.jsx',
'path/to/jsx/templates/dir/input2.jsx'
]
}
},
dynamic_mappings: {
files: [
{
expand: true,
cwd: 'path/to/jsx/templates/dir',
src: ['**/*.jsx'],
dest: 'path/to/output/dir',
ext: '.js'
}
]
}
},
})
Writing your applications in CommonJS format will allow you to use Browserify to
concatenate your files. Plus, with grunt-react
, your templates will be converted from JSX to JS automatically!
First, install grunt-browserify
to your project:
npm install grunt-browserify --save-dev
Second, register grunt-browserify
in your Gruntfile:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-browserify')
Finally, add the following task to your Gruntfile:
browserify: {
options: {
transform: [ require('grunt-react').browserify ]
},
app: {
src: 'path/to/source/main.js',
dest: 'path/to/target/output.js'
}
}
You've successfully concatenated your JSX & JS files into one file!
Type: String
Default value: js
Extension of files to search for JSX-syntax & convert to JS.
Type: Boolean
Default value: false
Speed up compilation of JSX files by skipping files not modified since last pass.
Type: Boolean
Default value: false
Turns on JS transformations such as ES6 Classes.
I recommend naming your React Components with the .jsx
extension:
/**
* @jsx React.DOM
*/
var MyComponent = React.createClass({
...
render: function() {
return (
<p>Howdy</p>
);
}
});
Then, set your Gruntfile to use:
grunt.initConfig({
react: {
files: {
expand: true,
cwd: 'path/to/jsx/templates/dir',
src: ['**/*.jsx'],
dest: 'path/to/output/dir',
ext: '.js'
}
},
})
This will output the following:
/**
* @jsx React.DOM
*/
var MyComponent = React.createClass({displayName: 'MyComponent',
render: function() {
return (
React.DOM.p(null, "Howdy")
);
}
});
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.
- v0.9.0
- Continue compilation despite error. (#31)
- v0.8.4
- Add support for
harmony
via additional options. (#32)
- Add support for
- v0.8.3
- Update to
react-tools
at^v0.11.0
(#33)
- Update to
- v0.8.2
- Emit
react.error
for Growl & other notifications (#23)
- Emit
- v0.8.1
- Throw a proper error when React fails (#25)
- v0.8.0
- Update to React v0.10.0 (#27)
- v0.7.0
- Update to React v0.9.0 (#24)
- v0.6.0
- Task changes to allow for flexible file options as found in the
grunt-contrib-*
projects. - Taking hints from
grunt-contrib-less
to allow for compiling single files separately, dynamic mappings and combining. - Removed
extension
option as this is determined by flexible file matching now. - Removed MT time ignoring, this can be easily done with the
grunt-newer
plugin. - Errors are ignored and skipped by default to match how other grunt plugins work.
- Task changes to allow for flexible file options as found in the
- v0.5.2
grunt.fail
instead of throwing an error (#11)
- v0.5.1
- Add file name to errors (#15)
- v0.5.0
- Update to
react-tools
~v0.5.0
- Update to
- v0.4.1
- Add logging to make it easier catch errors, thanks to @lorefnon (#5)
- v0.4.0
- Update to react-tools ~0.4.0, thanks to @Agent-H (#3)
- v0.3.0
- No longer uses
bin/jsx
, thanks to @petehunt (#2)
- No longer uses
- Add
ignoreMTime
option - v0.2.0
- Add
require('grunt-react').browserify()
andrequire('grunt-react').source()
for compiling within Node
- Add
- v0.1.0
- Initial release