This documentation will explain the different modules available in server-reason-react
, and how to use them, however it is assumed a minimum understanding of Reason, reason-react, Melange and a bit of dune.
Let's start with a React component written in Reason:
module Greetings = {
[@react.component]
let make = (~name) => {
<div>
<h1> {React.string("Hello " ++ name)} </h1>
</div>
}
};
A module with a make function that returns a React.element
. This component is both a reason-react
component and a server-reason-react
component.
server-reason-react
provides React
and ReactDOM
modules with the same interface as reason-react
, including the JSX transformation via server-reason-react.ppx
.
The main difference is, with server-reason-react
you can render it on the server with ReactDOM
(server-reason-react.reactDom
):
let html = ReactDOM.renderToStaticMarkup(<Greetings name="visitor" />)
// <div><h1>Hello visitor</h1></div>
This is usually part of your server-side code
The ReactDOM
module exposes the renderTo*
methods: ReactDOM.renderToStaticMarkup
, ReactDOM.renderToString
and ReactDOM.renderToLwtStream
.
opam install server-reason-react
If you want to use the development version of server-reason-react, you can install it via opam pinning:
opam pin server-reason-react.dev "https://github.com/ml-in-barcelona/server-reason-react.git#main" -y
Add server-reason-react.react
and server-reason-react.reactDom
to your dune file:
(libraries (server-reason-react.react server-reason-react.reactDom)
and also server-reason-react.ppx
to your preprocess list
(preprocess (pps server-reason-react.ppx))