Server Rendering

[josephwegner]

It would be really awesome if I could render react components during the build process, similar to how it works in react-rails.

[kangguru]

@josephwegner you can get server rendering quite easy

1. you'll have to add react-rails

2. extend the config.rb with something like this:

   after_configuration do
     sprockets.append_path File.dirname(::React::Source.bundled_path_for('react.js'))
   
    ::React::Renderer.setup!( lambda {File.read(::React::Source.bundled_path_for('react-with-addons.js'))}, lambda { sprockets['components.js'].to_s }, {size: 10, timeout: 20})
   end
   

3. add a helper method react_component (basically a copy of the one found in react-rails) but React needs to be prefixed with :: so it doesn't grabs the wrong constant

4. setup the components like in react-rails

5. add //= require react_ujs to the application.js

6. ✓

[wschenk]

I've created a pull request https://github.com/plasticine/middleman-react/pull/14 with support for this. I didn't pull in react-rails directly but pulled in a few components and changed it to work with middleman.