react-rails-alt

DEMO APP

This is demonstrates an app working with Rails, React.js, and Alt.

Dependencies

• react-rails gem — for React.js, ES6 Harmony, and react_component mounting helper.
• rails-assets — for access to the bower version of Alt.

Implementation

ES6 Harmony

ES6 Harmony support must be enabled: https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails#jsx

Some notable ES2015 features are missing, like const and let.

NOTE: if you config after the Asset Pipeline has its way with your components, you'll need to run bin/rake assets:clean or rm -vfr tmp/cache to get things working again.

Alt instantiation

Make sure to instantiate alt before loading stores, actions, etc.

I did this with the following in application.js:

...
//= require_self
//= require_tree .

var alt = new Alt();

Alt and avoiding Modules

If you want to avoid adding a module system, you'll need to wrap Alt examples in an IIFE. If the Alt docs read something like this:

class NameActions = { ... }

module.exports = alt.createActions(NameActions);

You'll write something like this:

(() => {
  class NameActions { ... }

  this.NameActions = alt.createActions(NameActions);
})();

NOTE: if you want ES6 syntax available in these files, you'll need to append .jsx to the file name. This is a little kludgy but will allow you to work with the gems you already have installed.