I'm trying to figure out how to use react-rails with my Rails 5 gem.
At the moment, I'm trying to follow the tutorial in this post. https://medium.com/technically-speaking/isomorphic-reactjs-app-with-ruby-on-rails-part-1-server-side-rendering-8438bbb1ea1c#.iwd44r60v
I can't get the page to render at present. I use app_roles instead of posts, but otherwise I've followed the steps shown in the tutorial.
I have two files in my app/assets/javascripts/components folder.
app_role.js.jsx has:
var AppRole = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return (
<div className="h2">
<AppRoleHeader app_role={this.props.app_role} />
<AppRoleContent app_role={this.props.app_role} />
</div>
);
}
});
var AppRoleHeader = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return (
<div className="label">
<h2>{this.props.app_role.title}</h2>
<div className="label">
By {this.props.app_role.title} – {this.props.app_role.created_at}
</div>
</div>
);
}
});
var AppRoleContent = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return (
<div className="label">
{this.props.app_role.display_name}
</div>
);
}
});
app_roles_list.js.jsx has:
var AppRolesList = React.createClass({
getInitialState: function() {
return { posts: this.props.initialAppRoles };
},
render: function() {
var posts = this.state.app_roles.map(function(app_role) {
return <AppRole key={app_role.id} app_role={app_role} />;
});
return (
<div className="label">
{app_roles}
</div>
);
}
});
When I try to render this in my app_roles/index.html.erb file with:
<%= react_component('AppRolesList',
{ initialAppRoles: @app_roles },
{ prerender: params[:noprerender].nil? }) %>
I get an error that says:
ExecJS::RuntimeError at /app_roles
/private/var/folders/75/70zm4s4j14q74tfqpjvh49s80000gp/T/execjs20161015-7497-1bhq2x0js:24066
return <div className="h2">
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:373:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)
at startup (node.js:139:18)
at node.js:974:3
I don't understand this error message. I've read some posts describing a problem where the return method has two elements being returned. I tried removing the div h2 tag altogether and putting the two returned elements in an array, but that didn't work either.
I have also read posts describing problems configuring babel. I don't follow the gist of those comments. In my config development.rb, I have:
config.react.variant = :development
config.react.addons = true
config.react.jsx_transform_options = {
blacklist: ['spec.functionName', 'validation.react', 'strict'], # default options
# optional: ["transformerName"], # pass extra babel options
whitelist: ["useStrict"] # even more options
}
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to write in the optional: field. I assumed react-rails would give me some kind of default settings that would automatically work.
I also tried adding:
/** @jsx React.DOM */
to the top of each of the component files. Although that makes no difference to the problem.
I also tried adding this to config/application.rb
config.react.jsx_transformer_class = React::JSX::JSXTransformer
That doesn't change anything either.
I also tried adding this on my command line:
npm install --save-dev babel-preset-react
It made no difference to this problem.
Can anyone see what I need to do to get this page to load?
Application.js has:
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require tether
//= require bootstrap-sprockets
//= require turbolinks
//= require react
//= require react_ujs
// require react_bootstrap
//= require components
//= require_tree .