CLI for easily publishing modern React libraries with Rollup and example usage via create-react-app.
The purpose of this CLI is to make publishing your own React components as simple as possible.
- Easy-to-use CLI
- Handles all modern JS features
- Bundles
cjs
andes
module formats - create-react-app for example usage and local dev
- Rollup for bundling
- Babel for transpiling
- Jest for testing
- Supports complicated peer-dependencies
- Supports CSS modules
- Optional support for TypeScript
- Sourcemap creation
- Hundreds of public modules created
- Thorough documentation 😍
- Chinese docs by @monsterooo
This package requires node >= 4
, but we recommend node >= 8
.
npm install -g create-react-library
create-react-library
Answer some basic prompts about your module, and then the CLI will perform the following steps:
- copy over the template to a new folder in the current directory
- install dependencies via yarn or npm
- link packages together for local development
- initialize local git repo
At this point, your new module should resemble this screenshot and is all setup for local development.
Local development is broken into two parts.
First, you'll run rollup to watch your src/
module and automatically recompile it into dist/
whenever you make changes.
npm start # runs rollup with watch flag
The second part will be running the example/
create-react-app that's linked to the local version of your module.
# (in another tab)
cd example
npm start # runs create-react-app dev server
Now, anytime you make a change to your library in src/
or to the example app's example/src
, create-react-app
will live-reload your local dev server so you can iterate on your component in real-time.
The only difference when publishing your library to npm is to make sure that any npm modules you want as peer dependencies are properly marked as peerDependencies
in package.json
. The rollup config will automatically recognize them as peers and not try to bundle them in your module.
Then publish as per usual.
# note this will build `commonjs` and `es`versions of your module to dist/
npm publish
Deploying the example to github pages is simple. We create a production build of our example create-react-app
that showcases your library and then run gh-pages
to deploy the resulting bundle. This can be done as follows:
npm run deploy
Here is a branch which demonstrates how to use multiple named exports. The module in this branch exports two components, Foo
and Bar
, and shows how to use them from the example app.
Here is a branch which demonstrates how to make use of a relatively complicated peer dependency, material-ui. It shows the power of rollup-plugin-peer-deps-external which makes it a breeze to create reusable modules that include complicated material-ui subcomponents without having them bundled as a part of your module.
The CLI is based on this boilerplate, which you can optionally read about here.
Here are some example libraries that have been bootstrapped with create-react-library
.
- tabler-react - React components and demo for the Tabler UI theme.
- react-background-slideshow - Sexy tiled background slideshow for React 🔥
- react-starfield-animation -Canvas-based starfield animation for React ✨
- react-particle-effect-button - Bursting particle effect buttons for React 🎉
- react-particle-animation - Canvas-based particle animation for React 🌐
- react-block-image - React replacement for img with more control + fallback support 🌃
- react-mp3-recorder - Microphone recorder for React that captures mp3 audio 🎵
- react-before-after-slider - A sexy image comparison slider for React.
- worldwind-react-globe - NASA WorldWind globe component for React.
- react-shimmer - Shimmer effect for loading images.
- react-login-modal-sm - Customizable React social media login modal.
- react-gradient-scroll-indicator - Wrapper for scrollable content with gradients.
- ... and hundreds more!
Want to add yours to the list? Submit an issue.
MIT © Travis Fischer