ext-react

Extension React

Extension React is a library that build on top of React, helping you build data-intensive, cross-platform web apps for desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

Quick Start

Use npm or yarn to install following dependencies:

• babel-polyfill
• babel-preset-env
• babel-preset-react
• d3
• react
• react-dom
• rxjs
• ext-react

To launch your app, add the following to your app.js file

// ./app.js
import 'babel-polyfill';
import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
import { Application } from 'ext-react';
import Viewport from './components/viewport/viewport';
 
@Application()
export default class App extends PureComponent {
  render() {
    return <Viewport />
  }
}

Core Concepts

Full documentation: https://huytrongnguyen.github.io/extension-react

Components

A component in Extension React is the combination of a React Component and a component class that controls a portion of the screen. Here is an example of a component that display a simple string:

import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
import { Component } from 'ext-react';
 
class DashboardView extends PureComponent {
  render() {
    return <h1>{this.props.$view.title}</h1>;
  }
}
 
@Component({
  view: DashboardView
})
export default class Dashboard {
  constructor() {
    this.title = 'Dashboard';
  }
}

Every component begins with an @Component decorator function that takes a metadata object. The metadata object describes how the React Component and component class work together. That's mean you can access any property or method of component class via this.props.$view.

Actually, with the above example, it can be implemented like this:

import { Component } from 'ext-react';
 
@Component({
  view: ({ $view }) => <h1>{$view.title}</h1>
})
export default class Dashboard {
  constructor() {
    this.title = 'Dashboard';
  }
}

Data Package

Stores load data via a Proxy. Creating a Store is easy - we just tell it the Proxy to use for loading and saving its data:

import { Store } from 'ext-react';
 
export default Store({
  storeId: 'UserStore',
  proxy: {
    url: '/api/user/search'
  }
});

In the example above we configured an AJAX proxy to load data from the url /api/user/search.

Now, just bind a store to the Component:

import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
import CardStore from '~/stores/card';
 
export default class Card extends PureComponent {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.reload = () => this.forceUpdate();
  }
 
  componentDidMount() {
    CardStore.clearData();
    CardStore.load();
    CardStore.subscribe(this.reload);
  }
 
  render() {
    const records = CardStore.getData();
    return <section>
      <section className="rx-grid-header">
        <div className="d-flex flex-row rx-grid-header-container">
          <div className="rx-grid-column-header text-sm-center" style={{width:'20%'}}>ID</div>
          <div className="rx-grid-column-header text-sm-center" style={{width:'20%'}}>Name</div>
          <div className="rx-grid-column-header text-sm-center" style={{width:'20%'}}>Type</div>
          <div className="rx-grid-column-header text-sm-center" style={{width:'20%'}}>Armor</div>
          <div className="rx-grid-column-header text-sm-center" style={{width:'20%'}}>Weapon</div>
        </div>
      </section>
      <section className="rx-grid-body" style={{overflow:'visible'}}>
        <section className="rx-grid-view">
          {records.map(record => <article className="d-flex flex-row rx-grid-row">
            <div className="rx-grid-cell" style={{width:'20%'}}>{record.get('Id')}</div>
            <div className="rx-grid-cell" style={{width:'20%'}}>{record.get('Name')}</div>
            <div className="rx-grid-cell" style={{width:'20%'}}>{record.get('Type')}</div>
            <div className="rx-grid-cell" style={{width:'20%'}}>{record.get('ArmorUsable')}</div>
            <div className="rx-grid-cell" style={{width:'20%'}}>{record.get('WeaponUsable')}</div>
          </article>)}
        </section>
      </section>
    </section>;
  }
}

In this above example, we use subscribe to update the component whenever data's changed. Because Store convert data to Model then you need to use get to access data.

Screen Navigation

Route decorator is most basic responsibility is to render UI when a location matches the route’s path.

Link provides declarative, accessible navigation around your application.

HashRouter uses the hash portion of the URL (i.e. window.location.hash) to keep your UI in sync with the URL.

// ./app.js
import 'babel-polyfill';
import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
import { Application } from 'ext-react';
import Viewport from './components/viewport/viewport';
 
@Application({
  views: [
    require('./components/search'),
    require('./components/details'),
    require('./components/notfound'),
  ],
})
export default class App extends PureComponent {
  render() {
    return <Viewport />
  }
}
 
// ./components/viewport/viewport.js
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Link, HashRouter } from 'ext-react';
 
export default class Viewport extends Component {
  render() {
    return <section>
      <Link to="/">Dashboard</Link>
      <Link to="/search">Search</Link>
      <Link to="/details/huynguyen">Details</Link>
      <HashRouter />
    </section>;
  }
}
 
// ./components/search/search.js
import React from 'react';
import { Route, Component } from 'ext-react';
 
@Route('/search')
@Component({
  view: () => <section />
})
export default class Search { }
 
// /components/search/detail.js
import React from 'react';
import { Route, Component } from 'ext-react';
 
@Route('/details/:name')
@Component({
  view: ({ params }) => <h1>{params.name}</h1>
})
export default class Details { }
 
// ./components/notfound/notfound.js
import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
import { Route } from 'ext-react';
 
@Route('*')
export default class NotFound extends PureComponent {
  render() {
    return <h1>'{this.props.params.route}' doesn't exist</h1>
  }
}

Built-in Components

Extension React has several build-in components to support for building responsive web. For example:

• Grid are an excellent way of showing large amounts of tabular data on the client side. Essentially a supercharged , Grid iss an incredibly versatile component that provides an easy way to display and edit data.

// ./app.js
import 'babel-polyfill';
import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
import { Application } from 'ext-react';
 
@Application({
  stores: [
    require('./stores/cards'),
  ],
  views: [
    require('./components/viewport/viewport'),
    require('./components/cards'),
  ],
})
export default class App extends PureComponent {
  render() {
    return <Viewport />
  }
}
 
// ./stores/card
import { Store } from 'ext-react';
 
export default Store({
  storeId: 'CardStore',
  fields: [ 'Name' ],
  proxy: {
    url: '/data/card.json'
  }
})
 
// ./components/cards.js
import { Route, Component } from 'ext-react';
 
@Route('/example/cards')
@Component({
  stores: [ 'CardStore' ],
  view: CardView
})
export default class Card {
  @bind
  saveChanges() {
    this.stores.CardStore.sync({
      fail: err => console.log(err)
    });
  }
 
  @bind
  rejectChanges() {
    this.stores.CardStore.rejectChanges();
  }
}
 
// ./components/cards.view.jsx
import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
import { Grid } from 'ext-react';
 
export default class CardView extends PureComponent {
  componentDidMount() {
    this.props.stores.CardStore.load();
  }
  render() {
    const {CardStore } = this.props.stores;
    return <Grid store={CardStore}>
      <div header="Id" dataIndex="Id" />
      <div header="Name" dataIndex="Name" editable />
      <div header="Type" dataIndex="Type" />
    </Grid>
  }
}

Release Notes

[2.1.1]

• Using @Application to launch the app instead of Rext.application
• Ajax should support to use async/await

[2.0.1]

• Change Rext.launch to Rext.application with new configuration
• Apply rxjs
• Update scss

[1.8.0]

• Refactor Rext core
  • Changed in Ext, Rext is extended from Ext
  • Replaced core/component with core/dom, all the functions like jquery
  • A little bit change in core/list, core/string
  • Replaced core/map with core/dictionary
• Replace Component with PureComponent in Link, HashRouter
• Refactor Model
• Refactor Store
  • Separate to multiple class, derived from List: List > AbstractStore > ProxyStore > Store
  • Provide StoreManager to initial all stores on first load, support to lookup by store id
• Using function component instead of class component in core/container, core/form
• Update scss

[1.7.1]

• Change default component alias to $view
• Add function Rext.initialState
• Update documentation

[1.6.2]

• Provide Dropdown component
• Support editable for Grid
• Add function Rext.generateSetter to handle setState for each field in state
• Fix issue in routes
• Update documentation for API

[1.5.0]

• React.launch now works with promise function (and async/await syntax)
• Remove Rext.application function
• Small refactor in List (List([1,2,3]) instead of List.of([1,2,3])) and Map (Map({a:1}) instead of Map.of({a:1}))
• Provide Grid component and update Store, Model to support Grid
• Add decorator withProps to render function
• Fix issue in get and set of Cache
• Update documentation for API

[1.4.4]

• Change Rext.application to Rext.launch, do not need a separate target <div id="root"/> in index.html file.
• Revise Container concept and change to Component
• Provide Container component and CSS

[1.3.4]

• Correct List, Map
• Change Rext.bootstrap to Rext.application and init to launch
• Provide HashRouter component and Router decorator
• Revise Store with new implementation
• Update README.md

[1.2.1]

• Fix issue in router component
• Update README.md
• Improve Store and Observable
• Implement Model

[1.1.0]

• Implement Observable

[1.0.0]

• Change params in bootstrap function
• Implement Store, Container and Router

[0.0.1]

• Define Architecture Overview
• Implement bootstrap function to launch the app

License

ext-react is released under the MIT license.