React-Rails v3

News

V3.0.0 is released with Shakapacker v7 support, including SSR. Please try it out and report any issues. We'll try to address any critical issues ASAP.

For version 2.7 documentation checkout 2.7-stable branch.

Summary

React-Rails is a flexible tool to use React with Rails. The benefits:

• Automatically renders React server-side and client-side
• Supports Shakapacker v7
• Supports Sprockets 4.x, 3.x
• Lets you use JSX, ES6, TypeScript, CoffeeScript

ShakaCode Support

ShakaCode offers support for upgrading this gem, and related gems such as Webpacker and using Shakapacker. If interested, contact Justin Gordon, justin@shakacode.com. We're also hiring!

Here's a testimonial of how ShakaCode can help, from Florian Gößler of Blinkist, January 2, 2023:

Hey Justin 👋

I just wanted to let you know that we today shipped the webpacker to shakapacker upgrades and it all seems to be running smoothly! Thanks again for all your support and your teams work! 😍

On top of your work, it was now also very easy for me to upgrade Tailwind and include our external node_module based web component library which we were using for our other (more modern) apps already. That work is going to be shipped later this week though as we are polishing the last bits of it. 😉

Have a great 2023 and maybe we get to work together again later in the year! 🙌

Read the full review here. Here's another review of a Shakapacker migration that led to more work.

Resources

• Click to join React + Rails Slack. Then join the channel #react-rails.
• If you are upgrading, you might consider migrating to the react_on_rails gem.
• Source code example utilizing React-Rails: https://github.com/BookOfGreg/react-rails-example-app

Documentation

• Get started
  • Use with Shakapacker
    • Component name
    • File naming
    • Typescript support
    • Test component
  • Use with Asset Pipeline
    • Custom JSX Transformer
      • Transform Plugin Options
    • React.js versions
• View Helper
  • Custom View Helper
• UJS
  • Mounting & Unmounting
  • Event Handling
  • getConstructor
• Server-Side Rendering
  • Configuration
  • JavaScript State
  • Custom Server Renderer
• Controller Actions
• Component Generator
  • Use with JBuilder
  • Camelize Props
  • Changing Component Templates
• Upgrading
  • 2.7 to 3.0
  • 2.3 to 2.4
• Migrating from react-rails to react_on_rails
  • Why migrate?
  • Steps to migrate
• Common Errors
  • Getting warning for Can't resolve 'react-dom/client' in React < 18
  • Undefined Set
  • Using TheRubyRacer
  • HMR
  • Tests in component directory

After reading this README file, additional information about React-Rails can be found in the Wiki page: https://github.com/reactjs/React-Rails/wiki The Wiki page features a significant amount of additional information about React-Rails which includes instructional articles and answers to the most frequently asked questions.

Related Projects

• webpacker-react: Integration of React with Rails utilizing Webpack with Hot Module Replacement (HMR).
• The React on Rails Course A video course which teaches the basics of React and how to get started using it in Rails with react-rails.
• react_on_rails: Integration of React with Rails utilizing Webpack, Redux, React-Router.
• react-rails-hot-loader Simple live-reloader for react-rails.
• react-rails-benchmark_renderer adds performance instrumentation to server rendering.
• Ruby Hyperstack: Use Ruby to build reactive user interfaces with React.

Contributing

🎉 Thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉

With 5 Million+ downloads of the react-rails Gem and another 2 Million+ downloads of react_ujs on NPM, you're helping the biggest React + Rails community!

By contributing to React-Rails, you agree to abide by the code of conduct.

You can always help by submitting patches or triaging issues. Even offering reproduction steps to issues is incredibly helpful!

Supporters

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Please see our Contribution guide for more info.