reactify
Browserify transform for JSX (superset of JavaScript used in React library):
var React = require('react')
var Hello = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return <div>Hello, {this.props.name}!</div>
}
})
React.render(
<Hello name="World" />,
document.getElementById('hello')
)
Save the snippet above as main.js
and then produce a bundle with the following
command:
% browserify -t reactify main.js
reactify
transform activates for files with either .js
or .jsx
extensions.
If you want to reactify modules with other extensions, pass an -x / --extension
option:
% browserify -t coffeeify -t [ reactify --extension coffee ] main.coffee
If you don't want to specify extension, just pass --everything
option:
% browserify -t coffeeify -t [ reactify --everything ] main.coffee
ES6 transformation
reactify
transform also can compile a limited set of es6 syntax constructs
into es5. Supported features are arrow functions, rest params, templates, object
short notation and classes. You can activate this via --es6
or --harmony
boolean option:
% browserify -t [ reactify --es6 ] main.js
es6 class getter and setter methods can be activated via --target es5
option:
% browserify -t [ reactify --es6 --target es5 ] main.js
You can also configure it in package.json
{
"name": "my-package",
"browserify": {
"transform": [
["reactify", {"es6": true}]
]
}
}
Using 3rd-party jstransform visitors
Reactify uses jstransform to transform JavaScript code. It allows code transformations to be pluggable and, what's more important, composable. For example JSX and es6 are implemented as separate code transformations and still can be composed together.
Reactify provides --visitors
option to specify additional jstransform visitors
which could perform additional transformations.