ng-reactify

npm module to integrate angularjs and reactjs.

Motivation

I have been working with angularjs for more than 2 years. I am backend guy amazed with frontend world and I would like to make frontend development easier than it is. First of all, we need to think out of the box. Thinking about reactjs, especially, functional programming, it is a bit different from convetional OO programming so, (git it five minute)[https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes]. Seriously, it is just a new approach for new problems that we have been facing with the web evolution.

Consuming

require

var ngReactify = require('ng-reactify');

es6

import ngReactify from 'ng-reactify';

global/window

var ngReactify = window.ngReactify;

Angular-React integration example

Here is an angular app using es6. Notice the following comment after the code.

import angular from 'angular';
import 'angular-route';
import ngReactify from 'ng-reactify';

import HelloWorld from '../src/boilerplate/hello-world';
import Comment from '../src/boilerplate/comment';
import PagesRoutes from '../src/boilerplate/pages-routes';
// this counter component is already connected
import Counter from '../src/boilerplate/counter';

import store from '../src/boilerplate/store';
import { hashHistory } from 'react-router';

ngReactify.registerComponents({
    HelloWorld,
    Comment,
    PagesRoutes,
    Counter
});
const reactPageConfig = {
    path: '/pages',
    componentName: 'PagesRoutes',
    history: hashHistory
};

const ngRouteConfig = {
    // angular configuration for route
};

const reactCounterPageConfig = {
    path: '/counter',
    componentName: 'Counter',
    store
};

const appName = 'app-angular';
const appModule = angular.module(appName, [ngReactify.name, 'ngRoute']);

    appModule.config(['$routeProvider', ($routeProvider) => {
        ngReactify.wrapRouteProvider($routeProvider)
            .when('/', {
                template: `
                    <div>
                        I AM ON THE HOME PAGE
                        <br />
                        <a href='#/hello-world/'>
                            Hello World
                        </a>
                        <br />
                        <a href='#/comment/'>
                            Comment
                        </a>
                        <br />
                        <a href='#/pages'>
                            Pages
                        </a>
                        <br />
                        <a href='#/counter'>
                            Counter
                        </a>
                        <br />
                        <a href='#/counter-no-wrappers'>
                            Counter (No Wrappers)
                        </a>
                        <br />
                        <a href='#/there-is-no-such-url/'>
                            There is no such URL
                        </a>
                    </div>
            `
            })
            .when('/hello-world', {
                template: `
                    <div>
                        <div ng-reactify-component="HelloWorld"></div>
                    </div>
                `
            })
            .when('/comment', {
                template: `
                    <div>
                        <div
                            ng-reactify-component="Comment"
                            props="{ author: 'Danilo Castro', text: 'Complete text!' }"
                        ></div>
                    </div>
                `
            })
            .react.when(reactPageConfig, ngRouteConfig)
            .react.when(reactCounterPageConfig, ngRouteConfig)
            .when('/counter-no-wrappers', {
                controller: [function () {
                    const vm = this;
                    vm.store = store;
                }],
                controllerAs: 'vm',
                template: `
                    <div>
                        <div
                            ng-reactify-component="Counter"
                            store="vm.store"
                        ></div>
                    </div>
                `
            })
            .otherwise({
                template: '<h1>SORRY! ERROR!</h1>'
            });
    }]);

angular.element(document).ready(() => {
    angular.bootstrap(document, [appName]);
});

React compoennts

For react components with links (it is very important, we just cover react-router), they must have a dynamic baseUrl like the following code. Doing so, the ng-reactify module is able to manage the route changes.

Look the method render inside the component below.

import React, {
    Component
} from 'react';

class MyComponent extends Component
render() {
    /**
        * Whenever you are creating a link, it is likely to use a 
        * route management to provide access to other components.
        * Thus, it is important capture the parent context path in
        * order to define relative paths.
        * 
        * Even if you are not using a route manager, this code
        * handles well the capture of parent context path.
        * 
        * Expected result for non-managed-routes: ''
        * Expected result for managed-routes: <the-correct-parent-url>
        */
    const index = (this.props.routes || []).indexOf(this.props.route || {});
    const basePath = this.props.routes
        .slice(0, index)
        .filter(route => !!route.path)
        .map(route => route.path)
        .join('/');
    return (
        <div>
            <nav>
                <IndexLink to={[basePath, '/'].join('')}>Home</IndexLink>
                <br />
                <Link to={[basePath, '/contact'].join('')}>Contact</Link>
                <br />
                <Link to={[basePath, '/../'].join('')}>Angular Home</Link>
            </nav>
            {this.props.children}
        </div>
    );
}

Please, check out our DEV folder, you will find out a proper example. Once you install the ng-reactify module, go to node_modules/ng-reactify/DEV and have a look on app-angular file.

Happy for sharing it!

Thanks for all support and help us making pull request to optimise this module!