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Reactive Elements

Convert React.js components into Web Components

Live demo

UPD Convert Angular and Backbone views as well with MVC elements project

How to use?

Placing component in a pure HTML

<body>
	<my-react-component items="{window.someArray}"></my-react-component>
</body>

React class definition

/* @jsx React.DOM */
MyComponent = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    console.log(this.props.items); // passed as HTML tag`s argument
    console.log(this.props.children); // original tag children
    return <ul><li>React content</li></ul>;
  }
});

document.registerReact('my-react-component', MyComponent);

Find demo in corresponding folder.

Nesting

Original children of a custom element is injected to component as this.props.children.

<my-react-component>Hello world</my-react-component>

In this case props.children is equal to "Hello world".

Container node of the element is passed as this.props.container. Both props.container and props.children have type of documentFragment.

Exposing components methods on custom element

If you want to expose React component methods on custom element - assign them to component as following:

componentDidMount: function() {
    this.props.container.setTextContent = this.setTextContent.bind(this);
    ...

Handling attributes change

You may add attributeChanged callback to component in order to handle / modify / filter incoming values.

attributeChanged: function(attributeName, oldValue, newValue) {
    console.log('Attribute ' + attributeName + ' was changed from ' + oldValue + ' to ' + newValue);
    this.props[attributeName] = parseInt(newValue);
}

Communicate via DOM events

You may trigger DOM event from React component by using following snippet:

var event = new CustomEvent('change', {
      bubbles: true
    });
React.findDOMNode(this).dispatchEvent(event)

Subscribing to DOM events is similar:

React.findDOMNode(this).addEventListener('change', function(e){...});

NPM and Bower

  • NPM: reactive-elements
  • Bower: ReactiveElements

Dependencies

  • React.js
  • function.bind and Object.create support or polyfills
  • Custom elements support or polyfill

Custom elements polyfill behavior

Polyfill binds to DOMContentLoaded in order to process DOM so no custom elements exist until it fired. To prevent this hook into DOMContentLoaded and operate elements on it or after.

License

MIT: http://mit-license.org/

Copyright 2014 Denis Radin aka PixelsCommander

Inspired by Christopher Chedeau`s react-xtags