Meteor+React

[trusktr]

Hello @pilwon! I want to finish rocket:module then use it to import this into Famous.

I tried to make a basic wrapper for Famous Node in my Meteor project to see how it might be, and I love the imperative nature of React; it'll be awesome to use React with Famous. It seems that to make the Node work, I have to return a React.Component from the render function of my component Node that also extends React.Component, so it creates a virtual DOM and a real DOM. Did you ever find a way around this? Maybe there's a way to make React have a virtual DOM for our Famous components but not output that to real DOM so it doesn't slow things down?

Famous Engine is getting a lot better. In 0.7 (coming out soon) they have the new Element Cache life cycle with an official way to get a DOMElement's DOM element!

[trusktr]

@pilwon I've finished the first usable version of rocket:module yesterday. I'll be using it this week to import react-famous into Meteor and I'll post an example of that for the Meteor community to benefit from. :D I'd like to help update react-famous to Famous Engine 0.6+.

[trusktr]

I'd like to make a package for Meteor: rocket:react-famous (unless you want to, if you use Meteor). It'll showcase the use of rocket:module, which will showcase the use of react-famous. 😊😀

[pilwon]

@trusktr Great to hear you made some great progress on rocket:module :+1: Unfortunately I'm not a Meteor dev so please enlighten me and the community how this Meteor+React will look like. Let me know what help you need from me for making this happen.

[trusktr]

For sure! The rocket:module package in Meteor is using npm to get deps and Webpack to compile stuff.

Basically, we just need to work on #17 to clean up package.json and it'll work really well.

[trusktr]

Hi @pilwon ! ALright, so I've got react-famous working nicely in Meteor now. I'm going to start developing and will make some PRs soon. For now, check out my branch of react-famous. You'll notice that it's as minimal as possible. Check out the build scripts in package.json. There are still a few things to do though. One thing is to make the build script share Babel functions in a single file instead of duplicating them in each built file in the npm run prepublish script.

I'm testing all of this in the reacfamo package, for now, until we can get react-famous updated. It's working great.

I'm gonna post an example of it in Meteor in my example app, although it'd also be nice to update your react-famous-seed project with the bare minimal things: webpack, react, react-famous, and famous.

Looking forward to getting this all running. Cheers mate! :smiley:

[trusktr]

I made a PR to track the work. I'll be working with @adamelk on our Meteor projects using/testing/improving the setup. :)