@stencil/react-output-target

@stencil/react-output-target

Automate the creation of React component wrappers for your Stencil web components.

This package includes an output target for code generation that allows developers to generate a React component wrapper for each Stencil component and a minimal runtime package built around @lit/react that is required to use the generated React components in your React library or application.

Features

• ♻️ Automate the generation of React component wrappers for Stencil components
• 🌐 Generate React functional component wrappers with JSX bindings for custom events and properties
• ⌨️ Typings and auto-completion for React components in your IDE

Setup

Your Stencil Component Library

Install the @stencil/react-output-target package in your Stencil project as a development dependency:

npm install @stencil/react-output-target --save-dev

Configure the output target in your stencil.config.ts file:

import { Config } from '@stencil/core';
import { reactOutputTarget } from '@stencil/react-output-target';

export const config: Config = {
  outputTargets: [
    reactOutputTarget({
      // Relative path to where the React components will be generated
      outDir: '../path-to-react-library-or-app/src/',
    }),
    // dist-custom-elements output target is required for the React output target
    { type: 'dist-custom-elements' },
  ],
};

Build your Stencil project to generate the React component wrappers:

npm run build

The component wrappers will be generated in the specified output directory.

Your React Application or Library

Install the @stencil/react-output-target runtime package in your React project:

npm install @stencil/react-output-target

Note: The @stencil/react-output-target runtime package is required to use the generated React component wrappers. This package must be a dependency in your React project.

Verify or update your tsconfig.json file to include the following settings:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "esnext",
    "moduleResolution": "bundler"
  }
}

moduleResolution": "bundler" is required to resolve the secondary entry points in the @stencil/react-output-target runtime package. You can learn more about this setting in the TypeScript documentation.

Verify or install Typescript v5.0 or later in your project:

npm install typescript@5 --save-dev

That's it! You can now import and use your Stencil components as React components in your React application or library.

Output Target Options

Property	Description
outDir (required)	The directory where the React components will be generated.
esModule	If true, the output target will generate a separate ES module for each React component wrapper. Defaults to false.
stencilPackageName	The name of the package that exports the Stencil components. Defaults to the package.json detected by the Stencil compiler.
excludeComponents	An array of component tag names to exclude from the React output target. Useful if you want to prevent certain web components from being in the React library.
experimentalUseClient	If true, the generated output target will include the use client; directive.
customElementsDir	The directory where the custom elements are saved. This value is automatically detected from the Stencil configuration file for the dist-custom-elements output target. If you are working in an environment that uses absolute paths, consider setting this value manually.