purescript-yoga-react

A thin wrapper over react-basic-hooks that provides a simplified API for creating React components without Effect boilerplate.

Installation

spago install yoga-react

Usage

import Yoga.React (component)

-- Create a component at the top-level
myButton :: { label :: String, onClick :: Effect Unit } -> JSX
myButton = component "MyButton" \props -> React.do
  pure $ button { onClick: props.onClick } [ text props.label ]

API

`component`

component
  :: forall hooks props
   . String
  -> (props -> Hooks.Render Unit hooks JSX)
  -> (props -> JSX)

Creates a component using unsafePerformEffect internally. This is safe only when used at the top-level as a module-level binding.

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Never use this inside functions or other components. The purslint linter has a rule to catch this mistake.

Safe usage ✅

-- Top-level binding
greeting = component "Greeting" \props -> React.do
  pure $ div {} [ text $ "Hello " <> props.name ]

Unsafe usage ❌

-- Inside a function - will break React!
makeComponent name = 
  component name \_ -> pure mempty  -- ERROR: purslint will catch this

Why?

Creating components with react-basic-hooks requires wrapping in Effect:

-- Traditional approach
myComp :: Effect ({ } -> JSX)
myComp = Hooks.component "MyComp" \props -> React.do
  pure $ text "Hello"

-- Then you need to run the Effect somewhere
main = do
  comp <- myComp
  -- ...

With yoga-react:

-- Simplified approach
myComp :: { } -> JSX
myComp = component "MyComp" \props -> React.do
  pure $ text "Hello"

-- Use it directly, no Effect to run

This is safe because React components should only be created once at module initialization time anyway.

License

WTFPL