Remove use of Children.map in favor of alternative approach with restored highlighting support
This PR removes the legacy Children.map usage from the tts-react library and replaces it with modern React patterns, following the guidance from React's documentation on Children.map alternatives.
Changes Made
Core Implementation
-
Removed
Children.mapdependency: Replaced theparseChildrenRecursivelyfunction that relied onChildren.mapwith a newcreateHighlightedContentfunction that uses manual React element inspection -
Added text extraction utility: Created
extractTextFromChildrenfunction that traverses React children without using legacy Children APIs - Implemented render prop pattern: Added support for custom highlighting through render props, as suggested in the issue comments
Component Enhancement
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Added default render prop implementation: The
TextToSpeechcomponent now provides a default render prop implementation that preserves highlighting functionality for complex React children whenmarkTextAsSpokenis true -
Restored complex content highlighting: The default renderer recursively processes React elements similar to the old
Children.mapapproach, ensuring that highlighting works properly with nested JSX content
API Enhancements
The hook now supports multiple input patterns while maintaining backward compatibility:
// Existing children API (still works with restored highlighting)
const { ttsChildren } = useTts({
children: <div><p>Hello <span>nested</span> world</p></div>,
markTextAsSpoken: true
});
// New text prop API
const { ttsChildren } = useTts({
text: "Hello world",
markTextAsSpoken: true
});
// New render prop API for custom highlighting
const { ttsChildren } = useTts({
text: "Hello world",
markTextAsSpoken: true,
render: ({ children, boundary, markTextAsSpoken }) => {
// Custom highlighting logic
return <CustomHighlight boundary={boundary}>{children}</CustomHighlight>;
}
});
Technical Benefits
- Modern React patterns: No longer depends on legacy Children API
- Better type safety: Improved TypeScript support with proper type checking
- Maintained compatibility: All existing code continues to work without changes
- Enhanced functionality: New text and render prop APIs provide more flexibility
- Better performance: Direct text handling avoids unnecessary React tree traversal
-
Fully restored highlighting: Complex React children highlighting works properly with
markTextAsSpoken
Testing
- Added comprehensive tests for new functionality (34 total tests passing)
- Verified backward compatibility with existing test suite
- Added specific tests for text extraction, render props, and API preferences
- All builds and type checks pass successfully
- Verified that component highlighting test still passes with complex content
The library now follows React best practices while providing the same functionality plus additional flexibility for advanced use cases, with full highlighting support restored for complex React children.
Fixes #57.
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Codecov Report
:x: Patch coverage is 82.08955% with 12 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
:white_check_mark: Project coverage is 96.62%. Comparing base (256779b) to head (727413d).
| Files with missing lines | Patch % | Lines |
|---|---|---|
| packages/tts-react/src/hook.tsx | 65.00% | 7 Missing :warning: |
| packages/tts-react/src/component.tsx | 86.48% | 5 Missing :warning: |
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