zxbodya / Reactive Widgets

Reactive widgets

Application starter template, for implementing isomorphic widgets(same code for both server and client side), using RxJS and React

It is build on top of following great projects:

• React for a view layer
• RxJS for data layer, and composing asynchronous components
• Webpack to bundle client and server side scripts
• Babel to use next generation JavaScript, today.
• Express.JS for serving prerender application
• Axios for AJAX requests to API
• Jest for tests
• ESLint to watch for coding style issues
• Nodemon to reload rendering server in dev mode

For now, application includes following:

• rx-react-container - Allows to use React as a view layer for RxJS application, and to wait for required data before first rendering.
• di1 DI Container, inspired by https://github.com/angular/di.js but a lot simplified
• Application for server side components rendering
• Example of PHP application that uses components
• Simple widget example

Requirements

• nodejs You will need version 6 or above
• PHP above v5.4 for server side example and composer to install dependencies

Development environment setup

0. Check your Node.js version - it should be version 6 or later
1. Install dependencies using npm (or yarn)
2. start server app, with automatic recompile and reload when something changes
   • npm run dev
3. open this url in your browser: http://localhost:4000/ (php server should be started at port 4000 to make this working, see instructions below)

To customize host and ports used by application - use environment variables:

• DEV_SERVER_PORT - port used by dev server, 2992 by default
• DEV_SERVER_HOST - host where dev server is running, localhost by default

Same thing about app itself:

• APP_SERVER_HOST - host where application is running, localhost by default (address where app is accessible)
• APP_SERVER_PORT - port user by application, 8080 by default

if you have different application host and port different than above - be sure to specify them in environment

Also you can enable some other things for dev-server by environment variables

• HOT=1 to enable hot reload for client side

For setting those variables - you can create .env file at project root.

1. To run unit tests: npm run test
2. To check code style npm run lint

Production setup

1. Install dependencies: npm i
2. Build project npm run build
3. Start rendering server: node ./build/server/server.js

PHP server demo that will use implemented widgets

example is in public folder, to try it:

1. composer install install dependencies, using composer
2. start php built in server php -S 127.0.0.1:4000
3. navigate to http://127.0.0.1:4000/ to see results