write better introduction vignette/article

[timelyportfolio]

Intro to reactR is pretty pitiful and does not convey all that can be achieved with the combination of R + react.

I would really appreciate some help here, and I think this would be a great way for first time contributors to get involved. I am more than happy to assist and promise to be nice to anyone who might be interested regardless of level of experience.

[csmontt]

Hi!
I've just started learning react (I probably have spend about 40 hours learning so far) and I am fairly comfortable with R. I would be happy to learn some more R and React if you believe I can help you with this! I think I can put a couple of hours per week.

[timelyportfolio]

@csmontt, thanks so much for responding, and I'd be happy to work with you. All in, my expectation would be 2-10 hours with no deadline and also no "binding contract" :) meaning we can work at your pace. I have some ideas for content, but I would prefer you go in any direction you would like. Let me know what would interest you the most.

A couple of years ago I completed the Facebook React tutorial in R https://github.com/timelyportfolio/react_tutorial_in_R if that is helpful. It is a little old though so still has the now non-existent React.createClass and does not include hooks.

[xari]

Hey @timelyportfolio —I'm currently working on an expansion of the Vignette, and will try to get a first draft PR out to you by the end of the weekend or early next week. It will be very rough, but hopefully it will be able to kick-off some good discussions in this thread about the role of reactR.

Terrific package, by the way. I really think that it is already elevating Shiny into a truly scalable and customizable platform for dashboard devs.

[timelyportfolio]

@xari thanks so much. I look forward to seeing your pull. Happy to assist. I would like to avoid any additional R dependencies for vignette creation if possible, so generally prefer stock pkgdown even though there are some much prettier options. In terms of js/html/css cdn dependencies, perfectly fine with these and possibly encouraging any you might like or that demonstrate the undocumented power of the combination.

[xari]

@timelyportfolio —see #57

There are a few more features that I think would be useful to introduce in the intro, like MOBX.

Inline React-in-R examples get tricky. I encountered bugs when I tried to use state to create a simple stateful example.

In any case, I'm curious to hear your thoughts!

[timelyportfolio]

@xari thanks so much. Sorry, have been off computer for a while. Look forward to checking this out!