IDE.md

IDEs

Here are tips to improve the experience of developing scalajs-react based applications in various IDEs.

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Intellij

New component template

1. Go to File → Settings → Editor → Live Templates → Scala
2. Click the green + button in the top right and select Live Template
3. At the bottom where it says No applicable contexts yet. click Define → Scala → Code
4. In the Abbreviation field, type newcomp (or whatever you want to use to invoke the template from your code)
5. In the Description field, type New React component
6. In the Template text field, paste the following:

import japgolly.scalajs.react._
import japgolly.scalajs.react.vdom.html_<^._
import japgolly.scalajs.react.extra._

object $NAME$ {

  final case class Props() {
    @inline def render: VdomElement = Component(this)
  }

  //implicit val reusabilityProps: Reusability[Props] =
  //  Reusability.derive

  final class Backend($: BackendScope[Props, Unit]) {
    def render(p: Props): VdomElement =
      <.div
  }

  val Component = ScalaComponent.builder[Props]("$NAME$")
    .renderBackend[Backend]
    //.configure(Reusability.shouldComponentUpdate)
    .build
}

Once you're done, when you want to create a new component, create a new file, type newcomp and hit enter when Intellij offers you the template.

New component template (with State)

Similar to above, here is a newcompS template that creates a new component with state. As is recommended generally, the component shouldn't be stateful from React's perspective but referentially-transparent with state externalised to the top of the page/SPA component tree and provided through the props.

import japgolly.scalajs.react._
import japgolly.scalajs.react.vdom.html_<^._
import japgolly.scalajs.react.extra._

object $NAME$ {

  final case class Props(state: StateSnapshot[State]) {
    @inline def render: VdomElement = Component(this)
  }

  //implicit val reusabilityProps: Reusability[Props] =
  //  Reusability.derive

  final case class State()

  object State {
    def init: State =
      State()

    //implicit val reusability: Reusability[State] =
    //  Reusability.derive
  }

  final class Backend($: BackendScope[Props, Unit]) {
    def render(p: Props): VdomElement =
      <.div
  }

  val Component = ScalaComponent.builder[Props]("$NAME$")
    .renderBackend[Backend]
    //.configure(Reusability.shouldComponentUpdate)
    .build
}