rax: A JavaScript repository from lanwy

The fastest way to build universal application.

🎄 Familiar: React compatible API with Class Component and Hooks.

🍬 Tiny: ~7 KB minified + gzipped.

🌏 Universal: works with DOM, Weex, Node.js, Mini-program, WebGL and could works more container that implements driver specification.

🍌 Easy: using via rax-cli with zero configuration, one codebase with universal UI toolkit & APIs.

🍭 Friendly: developer tools for Rax development.

Quick Start
Guides
API Reference

Quick Start

Install via NPM

Quickly add rax to your project:

$ npm install rax
$ npm install driver-dom

Starter template

// Hello.jsx
import {createElement, useState} from 'rax';

export default (props) => {
  const [name, setName] = useState(props.name);
  const handleClick = () => {
    setName('rax');
  };
  return (
    <h1 onClick={handleClick}> Hello {name}</h1>
  );
}

// app.jsx
import {render} from 'rax';
import DriverDOM from 'driver-dom';
import Hello from './Hello';

render(<Hello name="world" />, document.body, { driver: DriverDOM });

Using via CLI

Install the Rax CLI tools to init project:

$ npm install rax-cli -g
$ rax init <YourProjectName>

Start local server to launch project:

$ cd YourProjectName
$ npm run start

Using via CDN

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Hello World</title>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/rax@1.0.0/dist/rax.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/driver-dom@1.0.0/dist/driver-dom.js"></script>
    
    <!-- Don't use this in production: -->
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone@6.26.0/babel.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="root"></div>
    <script type="text/babel">
      // @jsx Rax.createElement
      Rax.render(
        <h1>Hello, world!</h1>,
        document.getElementById('root'),
        { driver: DriverDOM }
      );
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Guides

Server-side rendering and hydration

Use renderToString() to generate HTML on the server and send the markup down on the initial request for faster page loads and to allow search engines to crawl your pages for SEO purposes.

// MyComponent.jsx
function MyComponent(props) {
  return <h1>Hello world</h1>;
}

import express from 'express';
import renderer from 'rax-server-renderer';
import {createElement} from 'rax';
import MyComponent from './MyComponent';

const app = express();
app.listen(8080);

app.get('/hello', (req, res) => {
  let html = renderer.renderToString(createElement(MyComponent));
  res.send(`<!DOCTYPE html><html><body>${html}</body></html>`);
});

If you call hydrate() on a node that already has this server-rendered markup, Rax will preserve it and only attach event handlers, allowing you to have a very performant first-load experience.

import hydrate from 'rax-hydrate';
import MyComponent from './MyComponent';

hydrate(<MyComponent />, document.body);

App Router

import { createElement, Fragment } from 'rax';
import { route, useComponent, push } from 'rax-use-router';
import Foo from './Foo';

route([{
  path: '/home',
  routes: [
    {
      path: '',                   // www.example.com/home
      component: () => <>
        <button onClick={() => push('/foo')}>go foo</button>
        <button onClick={() => push('/bar')}>go bar</button>
        <button onClick={() => push('/home/jack')}>go jack</button>
      </>,
    },
    {
      path: '/:username',         // www.example.com/home/xxx
      component: (params) => <>
        <p>{params.username}</p>
        <button onClick={ () => push('/home') }>Go home</button>
      </>
    }
  ]},
  {
    path: '/bar',
    routes: [
      {
        path: '',                 // www.example.com/bar
        component: () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "bar" */ './Bar'),
      },
    ],
  },
  {
    path: '/foo',                 // www.example.com/foo
    component: () => <Foo />,  
  },
]);

export default function Example() {
  var component = useComponent('/home');
  return component;
}

// Foo.jsx
import { createElement } from 'rax';
import { push } from 'rax-use-router';

export default function Foo() {
  return <button onClick={ () => push('/home') }>Go home</button>
}

// Bar.jsx
import { createElement } from 'rax';
import { push } from 'rax-use-router';

export default function Bar() {
  return <button onClick={ () => push('/home') }>Go home</button>
}

Asynchronous Operation

import { createElement, useMemo } from 'rax';
import usePromise from 'rax-use-promise';

const fetchData = () => fetch('https://httpbin.org/get').then(res => res.json());

function Example() {
  const [data, error] = usePromise(useMemo(fetchData));
  if (error) {
    return <p>error</p>
  } else if (data) {
    return <p>{data.foo}</p>
  }
}

Fetch Data

import { createElement } from 'rax';
import useFetch from 'rax-use-fetch';

function Example() {
  const [data, error] = useFetch('https://httpbin.org/get');
  if (error) {
    return <p>error</p>;
  } else if (data) {
    return <p>{data.foo}</p>;
  } else {
    return <p>loading</p>;
  }
}

Code Splitting

Code-Splitting allows you to split your code into various bundles which can then be loaded on demand or in parallel. It can be used to achieve smaller bundles and control resource load prioritization which, if used correctly, can have a major impact on load time.

Code-Splitting is supported by Webpack which can create multiple bundles that can be dynamically loaded at runtime.

import { createElement } from 'rax';
import useImport from 'rax-use-promise';

export default function App() {
  const [Bar, error] = useImport(() => import(/* webpackChunkName: "bar" */ './Bar'));
  if (error) {
    return <p>error</p>;
  } else if (Bar) {
    return <Bar />
  } else {
    return <p>loading</p>;
  }
}

Testing

rax-test-renderer provides an renderer that can be used to render Rax components to pure JavaScript objects, without depending on the DOM or a native mobile environment:

import {createElement} from 'rax';
import renderer from 'rax-test-renderer';

const tree = renderer.create(
  <Link page="https://example.com/">Example</Link>
);

console.log(tree.toJSON());
// { tagName: 'A',
//   attributes: { href: 'https://example.com/' },
//   children: [ 'Example' ] }

You can also use Jest's snapshot testing feature to automatically save a copy of the JSON tree to a file and check in your tests that it hasn't changed: http://facebook.github.io/jest/blog/2016/07/27/jest-14.html.

import {createElement} from 'rax';
import renderer from 'rax-test-renderer';

test('Link renders correctly', () => {
  const tree = renderer.create(
    <Link page="https://example.com">Example</Link>
  ).toJSON();
  expect(tree).toMatchSnapshot();
});

Developer Tools

You can inspect and modify the state of your Rax components at runtime using the React Developer Tools browser extension.

Install the React Developer Tools extension
Import the "rax/lib/devtools" module in your app

import 'rax/lib/devtools';

Set process.env.NODE_ENV to 'development'
Reload and go to the 'React' tab in the browser's development tools

React compatibility

Add an alias for react and react-dom in webpack config that makes React-based modules work with Rax, without any code changes:

{
  // ...
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      'react': 'rax/lib/compat',
      'react-dom': 'rax-dom'
    }
  }
  // ...
}

Use TypeScript

Install TypeScript:

$ npm install typescript --save-dev

Install TypeScript loader for webpack:

$ npm install ts-loader --save-dev

Create or update webpack.config.js:

module.exports = {
  mode: "development",
  devtool: "inline-source-map",
  entry: "./app.tsx",
  output: {
    filename: "bundle.js"
  },
  resolve: {
    // Add `.ts` and `.tsx` as a resolvable extension.
    extensions: [".ts", ".tsx", ".js"]
  },
  module: {
    rules: [
      // all files with a `.ts` or `.tsx` extension will be handled by `ts-loader`
      { test: /\.tsx?$/, loader: "ts-loader" }
    ]
  }
};

Add a tsconfig.json file:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "sourceMap": true,
    "jsx": "react",
    "jsxFactory": "createElement"
  }
}

Write your first TypeScript file using Rax:

// app.tsx
import { createElement, render } from 'rax';
import * as DriverDOM from 'driver-dom';

interface HelloProps { compiler: string; framework: string; }

const Hello = (props: HelloProps) => <h1>Hello from {props.compiler} and {props.framework}!</h1>;

render(<Hello compiler="TypeScript" framework="React" />, document.body, { driver: DriverDOM});

API Reference

Creating Elements

createElement(type, [props], [...children])

createElement('div', { id: 'foo' }, createElement('p', null, 'hello world'));

Fragments

Fragment

<Fragment>
  <header>A heading</header>
  <footer>A footer</footer>
</Fragment>

Refs

createRef()

const inputRef = createRef();
function MyComponent() {
  return <input type="text" ref={inputRef} />;
}

forwardRef()

const MyButton = forwardRef((props, ref) => (
  <button ref={ref}>
    {props.children}
  </button>
));

// You can get a ref directly to the DOM button:
const ref = createRef();
<MyButton ref={ref}>Click me!</MyButton>;

Hooks

useState()

function Example() {
  // Declare a new state variable, which we'll call "count"
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  return (
    <div>
      <p>You clicked {count} times</p>
      <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>
        Click me
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

useEffect()

function Example() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  // Similar to componentDidMount and componentDidUpdate:
  useEffect(() => {
    document.title = `You clicked ${count} times`;
  });

  return (
    <div>
      <p>You clicked {count} times</p>
      <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>
        Click me
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

useLayoutEffect()

function Example() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  useLayoutEffect(() => {
    // Fires in the same phase as componentDidMount and componentDidUpdate
  });

  return (
    <div>
      <p>You clicked {count} times</p>
      <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>
        Click me
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

useContext()

// Create a Context
const NumberContext = createContext();

function Example() {
  const value = useContext(NumberContext);
  return <div>The answer is {value}.</div>;
}

useRef()

function TextInputWithFocusButton() {
  const inputEl = useRef(null);
  const onButtonClick = () => {
    // `current` points to the mounted text input element
    inputEl.current.focus();
  };
  return (
    <>
      <input ref={inputEl} type="text" />
      <button onClick={onButtonClick}>Focus the input</button>
    </>
  );
}

useCallback()

const memoizedCallback = useCallback(
  () => {
    doSomething(a, b);
  },
  [a, b],
);

useMemo()

const memoizedValue = useMemo(() => computeExpensiveValue(a, b), [a, b]);

useReducer()

const initialState = {count: 0};

function reducer(state, action) {
  switch (action.type) {
    case 'reset':
      return initialState;
    case 'increment':
      return {count: state.count + 1};
    case 'decrement':
      return {count: state.count - 1};
    default:
      // A reducer must always return a valid state.
      // Alternatively you can throw an error if an invalid action is dispatched.
      return state;
  }
}

function Counter({initialCount}) {
  const [state, dispatch] = useReducer(reducer, {count: initialCount});
  return (
    <>
      Count: {state.count}
      <button onClick={() => dispatch({type: 'reset'})}>
        Reset
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => dispatch({type: 'increment'})}>+</button>
      <button onClick={() => dispatch({type: 'decrement'})}>-</button>
    </>
  );
}

useImperativeHandle()

function FancyInput(props, ref) {
  const inputRef = useRef();
  useImperativeHandle(ref, () => ({
    focus: () => {
      inputRef.current.focus();
    }
  }));
  return <input ref={inputRef} />;
}
FancyInput = forwardRef(FancyInput);

Performance

memo()

function MyComponent(props) {
  /* render using props */
}
function areEqual(prevProps, nextProps) {
  /* 
    return true if passing nextProps to render would return
    the same result as passing prevProps to render,
    otherwise return false
  */
}
export default memo(MyComponent, areEqual);

Rendering Elements

render(element [, container] [, options] [, callback])

render(<HelloMessage name="world" />, document.body, { driver: DomDriver })

Class Component

Component
PureComponent

Version

version

rax-children

Children
- Children.map(children, function[(thisArg)])
- Children.forEach(children, function[(thisArg)])
- Children.count(children)
- Children.only(children)
- Children.toArray(children)

rax-proptypes

PropTypes
- PropTypes.array
- PropTypes.bool
- PropTypes.func
- PropTypes.number
- PropTypes.object
- PropTypes.string
- PropTypes.symbol
- PropTypes.element
- PropTypes.node
- PropTypes.any
- PropTypes.arrayOf
- PropTypes.instanceOf
- PropTypes.objectOf
- PropTypes.oneOf
- PropTypes.oneOfType
- PropTypes.shape