React QML


Keywords
react, react-qml, qml, qt, desktop, native, qtquick, qt5, redux, desktop-app, cross-platform, qml-development
License
MIT
Install
npm install react-qml@0.5.0

Documentation

ReactQML

Build native, high-performance, cross-platform universal applications (desktop and mobile) through a React (and/or QML) syntax

🚧 NOTE: ReactQML is a work-in-progress! 🚧

Features

  • Native components: no Electron
  • Batteries included: access to full webpack ecosystem and wide sets of QML modules
  • Cross platform: macOS/Windows/Linux/Android/iOS/tvOS/watchOS (see Qt supported platforms).
  • Write codes in modern Javascript (ES2016+) or TypeScript (transpiling with babel, bundling with webpack, highly customizable)
  • Works with existing front-end libraries such as redux, lodash, rxjs, redux-observable etc.
  • Supports Hot Module Reloading
  • Supports react-devtools & redux-devtools (Time Travel Debugging possible)
  • New in v0.5: supports React Hooks!

Quickstart

See react-qml-quickstart and Ben

API Example

You can build UI components using JSX syntax and/or QML syntax.

React Component

import React from "react";
import { render, Window, ColumnLayout, Text } from "react-qml";

const styles = {
  window: {
    width: 400,
    height: 500
  },
  title: {
    fontSize: 20
  },
  subtitle: {
    color: "#333"
  }
};

const App = () => (
  <Window visible style={styles.window}>
    <ColumnLayout width={200} anchors={{ centerIn: "parent" }}>
      <Text
        text="Welcome to React QML"
        Layout={{ fillWidth: true }}
        style={styles.title}
      />
      <Text
        text="To get started, edit index.js"
        Layout={{ fillWidth: true }}
        style={styles.subtitle}
      />
    </ColumnLayout>
  </Window>
);

export default () => render(<App />);

QML Components

App.qml

import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
import QtQuick.Layouts 1.0
import QtQuick.Window 2.2

Window {
  width: 400
  height: 500
  visible: true

  ColumnLayout {
    width: 200
    x: (Window.width - width) / 2
    y: (Window.height - height) / 2

    Text {
      text: "Welcome to React QML"
      Layout.fillWidth: true
      font.pointSize: 20
    }

    Text {
      text: "To get started, edit App.qml"
      color: "#333333"
      Layout.fillWidth: true
    }
  }
}

index.js

import React from "react";
import { render } from "react-qml";

import App from "./App.qml";

export default () => render(<App />);

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  • Proton Native: Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms
  • React Native: Build native mobile apps using JavaScript and React
  • React Native Desktop: A Desktop port of React Native, driven by Qt, forked from Canonical
  • React Native macOS: React Native for macOS is an experimental fork for writing desktop apps using Cocoa

License

  • ReactQML is available under MIT license
  • Qt is available under different licensing options. See here and here

Copyright for portions of project React QML are held by Mike Grabowski as part of project Haul. All other copyright for project React QML are held by Long Nguyen.