# haxe-react

> A Haxe library offering externs and tool functions leveraging Haxe's excellent type system and compile time macros to offer a strongly typed language to work with the increasingly popular React library.

Latest version **0.0.4** (published 2015-11-10) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install haxe-react
pnpm add haxe-react
yarn add haxe-react
bun add haxe-react
```

## Health

**Score 15/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: no vulnerabilities.

Warnings: low downloads; no types; no esm support; pre 1.0.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.0.4 |
| Published | 2015-11-10 |
| First published | 2015-10-20 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| Author | massiveinteractive |
| Maintainers | haxelib.js |
| Keywords | javascript, library, haxe |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/haxe-react
- Repository: https://github.com/massiveinteractive/haxe-react
- Issues: https://github.com/massiveinteractive/haxe-react/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/haxe-react

## Recent versions

- 0.0.4 (latest) — 2015-11-10
- 0.0.3 — 2015-11-02
- 0.0.2 — 2015-10-20

## README

# Haxe React

A Haxe library offering externs and tool functions leveraging Haxe's excellent type system and 
compile time macros to offer a strongly typed language to work with the increasingly popular 
[React](https://facebook.github.io/react/) library.

	haxelib install react

## API

Most of the regular React API is integrated (non-JSX example):

```haxe
import api.react.React;
import api.react.ReactDOM;

class App extends ReactComponent {

	static public function main() {
		ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(App), Browser.document.getElementById('app'));
	}

	public function new() {
		super();
	}

	override function render() {
		var cname = 'foo';
		return React.createElement('div', {className:cname}, [/*children*/]);
	}
}
```

### TODO

Externs for common. add-ons and react-router.

## Components strict typing

The default `ReactComponent` type is a shorthand for `ReactComponentOf<Dynamic, Dynamic, Dynamic>`,
a fully untyped component.

To fully benefit from Haxe's strict typing you should look into extending a stricter base class:

```haxe
typedef ReactComponentOfProps<TProps> = ReactComponentOf<TProps, Dynamic, Dynamic>;
typedef ReactComponentOfState<TState> = ReactComponentOf<Dynamic, TState, Dynamic>;
typedef ReactComponentOfRefs<TRefs> = ReactComponentOf<Dynamic, Dynamic, TRefs>;
typedef ReactComponentOfPropsAndState<TProps, TState> = ReactComponentOf<TProps, TState, Dynamic>;
typedef ReactComponentOfPropsAndRefs<TProps, TRefs> = ReactComponentOf<TProps, Dynamic, TRefs>;
typedef ReactComponentOfStateAndRefs<TState, TRefs> = ReactComponentOf<Dynamic, TState, TRefs>;
```

## JSX

### The compromise 

Unfortunately, the Haxe compiler (and editors) doesn't allow to use exactly the JSX XML DSL, 
so we had to compromise a bit...

This library's take on JSX is to use a compile-time macro to parse JSX as a string to generate
the same kind of code that Facebook's JSX, Babel and Typescript will generate.

Both classic JSX `{}` binding and Haxe string interpolation `$var` / `${expression}` / `<$Comp>` 
are allowed. The advantage of string interpolation is Haxe editor supports for completion and
code navigation.

```haxe
import api.react.React;
import api.react.ReactDOM;
import api.react.ReactMacro.jsx;

class App extends ReactComponent {

	static public function main() {
		ReactDOM.render(jsx('<App/>'), Browser.document.getElementById('app'));
	}

	public function new() {
		super();
	}

	override function render() {
		var cname = 'foo';
		return jsx('
			<div className=$cname>
				${/*children*/}
			</div>
		');
	}
}
```

### Known limitations: 

- you can't include double quotes in an expression assigned to an attribute.
Eg. `<div className=${state.selected?"selected":""}>`
- You can't use functions (and thus factories) for stateless rendering. We're looking into this.

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