I came upon this:
https://github.com/ssorallen/turbo-react
And I like what it does, I am just a bit confused about how I use this code within my Rails project that currently uses the React-Rails gem
I am mostly confused about where to put the code so that I can read it into my Rails gem with React Rails. If I paste the main JS file into my vendor/assets folder, I get this message:
Uncaught ReferenceError: global is not defined
I know that I am just fundamentally misunderstanding how to include this kind of JS file into my Rails project.
src/turbo-react.js is meant for a Node.js environment, not a browser environment. I see another file, public/dist/turbo-react.min.js, which has been "compiled" to run in a browser (using Webpack). You should copy that file into vendor/assets
, then require it in application.js
.
The first few lines of src/turbo-react.js
gave me some signals that it is for Node.js:
if (global.Turbolinks === undefined) {
throw "Missing Turbolinks dependency. TurboReact requires Turbolinks be included before it.";
}
var HTMLtoJSX = require("htmltojsx");
var JSXTransformer = require("react-tools");
var React = require("react");
global
and require
are both Node.js concepts which don't exist in the browser.
You are searching for this one I guess: https://github.com/ssorallen/turbo_react-rails
Installation instructions:
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'turbo_react-rails'
Install the updated gems
$ bundle install
Require turbo-react in a JavaScript file like "application.js" after Turbolinks:
//= turbolinks
//= require turbo-react
That's it. Now if you click any link in your Web-Application it should be loaded via Ajax and use React to replace the tags in your page.