ReactScript

An elegant, flexible DSL for React for use with CoffeeScript (and maybe other languages)

With CoffeeScript:

# Alias it as whatever you want (maybe _ or $?)
E = ReactScript or require "react-script"

class Message extends React.Component
    render: ->
        E ".message", class: (if @props.author is you then "from-you"),
            E ".info",
                style: float: "right"
                "From "
                E "span.author", @props.author
                " at "
                E "span.time", @props.time
            E "p.body",
                @props.text
                if @props.fileTransfers
                    E ".transfers",
                        "Sent files:"
                        E "ul.files",
                            for transfer in @props.fileTransfers
                                E "li", E "a",
                                    href: transfer.downloadLink
                                    download: transfer.fileName
                                    transfer.fileName

message = E Message,
    author: "John"
    time: "5:47 PM"
    text: "Hello world!"
    fileTransfers: [
        {fileName:  "virus.exe", downloadLink: "#"}
    ]

React.render message, document.body

By simply supporting arrays and ignoring nully values, it works with all forms of conditionals and comprehensions.

All the functionality of classnames is built in. Just provide any class, classes, className, classNames or classList. All those properties are treated the same and can be a single class name, a single string with multiple class names, an object where the keys are the class names and the values are whether they should be present, or an array of any of the preceeding. Nully values are ignored, allowing for conditionals.

The whole library tries to be pretty flexible.

You can specify data-* and aria-* properties either as e.g. "data-size"/"area-role" or dataSize/ariaRole or data_size/area_role or data: size: 1.337/aria: role: "button".

If you find something that doesn't work as you'd hope, feel free to open an issue.

Install

npm i react-script --save

Run tests

npm test

Similar Projects

• hyperscript (generates HTML)
• react-hyperscript (hyperscript for React)
• virtual-hyperscript (hyperscript for virtual-dom)
• zorium (framework for virtual-dom)
• hyper ("React.js wrapper for CoffeeScript", part library, part transformer)
• coffee-react (JSX for CoffeeScript (plus related projects))
• react-no-jsx (uses arrays rather than function calls; not enough CoffeeScript)