purescript-react-spaces

Combinator library for writing React vDOM

It it is heavily inspired by purescript-smolder.

The top level module exports

renderIn
  :: (Array ReactElement -> ReactElement)
  -> SpaceM
  -> ReactElement

render
  :: SpaceM
  -> Array ReactElement

which you can chain with render method of your spec:

s :: ReactSpec Unit Unit
s = spec unit (map (renderIn React.DOM.div') <<< render)
  where
    render :: ReactThis Unit Unit -> SpaceM
    render this = pure $
      div !. "greeting" $ do
	text "Hello World!

Run

npm run example:build
npm run example:serve

It will compile the following simple example:

greeting
  :: forall eff
   . ReactClass
      (Greeting
	( props :: ReactProps
	, refs :: ReactRefs ReadOnly
	, state :: ReactState ReadWrite
	| eff))
greeting = createClassStateless'
  \(Greeting { name, onChange }) chldrn
  -> renderIn React.DOM.div' do
    div !. "greeting" $ do
      label do
	div do
	  h1 do
	    elements chldrn
	    text " "
	    text name
	    text if not (S.null name) then "!" else ""
	-- note that you don't need to pass `empty` to `input`
	input ! P.value name ! P.onChange (handleChange onChange)

  where 
    handleChange onChange ev = do
      v <- pure (unsafeCoerce ev).target.value
      onChange v

newtype Counter eff = Counter
  { counter :: Int
  , onClick :: Eff eff Unit
  }
counter
  :: forall eff
   . ReactClass
      (Counter
	( props :: ReactProps
	, refs :: ReactRefs ReadOnly
	, state :: ReactState ReadWrite
	| eff))
counter = createClassStateless'
  (\(Counter { counter: c, onClick: onClick' }) chldrn
  -> renderIn React.DOM.div' do
    div do
      elements chldrn
      span $ text (show c)
      button ! onClick (handleClick onClick') $ do
	text "count")

  where
    handleClick onClick ev = onClick

base :: ReactClass Unit
base = createClass (spc { displayName = "BaseClass" })
  where
    spc = spec { name: "John", counter: 0 }
      (map (renderIn React.DOM.div') <<< renderFn)

    handleName this name = do
      transformState this (_ { name = name })

    handleCounter this = do
      transformState this (\st@{counter} -> st { counter = (counter + 1) })

    renderFn this = do
      { counter, name } <- readState this
      pure $ do
	greeting ^^ (Greeting { name, onChange: handleName this })
	  $ do
	    span $ text "Hello"
        counter ^^ (Counter { counter, onClick: handleCounter this })
	  $ do
	    h1 $ "Count on the sea..."

Often in React you want to render a node which is present under some condition. You might have a Maybe String in your props that you'd like to show only if you have a Just value. Since SpaceM is an instance of Foldable type class you can do that in this way:

nCls :: ReactClass { name :: String }
nCls = createClassStateless \{ name } -> renderIn React.DOM.div' do
  h1 !. "title" $ do
    text "Hello "
    span !. "name" $ text name

mSpec :: forall eff. ReactSpec { mName :: Maybe String } Unit eff
mSpec = spec unit renderFn
  where
    renderFn this = do
      { mName } <- getProps this
      let mNameNode = (nCls ^ _) <$> mName
      pure $ renderIn React.DOM.div' $ do
	h1 !. "app" $ do
	  text "Hello App"
	sequence_ mNameNode

Checkout examples for a echoApp component.

For another example you can check out purescript-isomorphic-react-example.

Another common pattern is to conditionally include part of a ui. You can use when for that:

  renderIn React.DOM.div' $ do
    h1 $ title "Hello"
    when condition do
      -- note that `React.Space.DOM.input` elements do not accept children (unlike `React.DOM.input`)
      input ! P.onChange (handleChange this)