ai2react

ai2react

A rough and opinionated riff on the OG ai2html (documentation here) that outputs a JS module that exports a React component rather than a plain HTML snippet. The raw HTML that ai2html gives you is great because it's self-contained and super portable, but I wanted a way to integrate it a little more seamlessly into a React workflow with a modern build process. Part of the inspiration for this comes from the Reuters Graphics port of ai2html, which includes ai2svelte.js as a way to accomplish a similar goal.

This is designed more as a utility library for the ai2react-loader Webpack loader than anything. If you plan to use it directly your mileage may vary.

Installing

Install ai2react from NPM using whichever package manager you like. For instance, yarn:

yarn add ai2react

or npm:

npm install ai2react

Usage

The heart and soul of ai2react really boils down to ai2html with a few small tweaks to the final output. Responsiveness is enforced unyieldingly, but otherwise most of the configurations and options that ai2html provides should be available.

You are welcome to install and use the ai2react.js Illustrator script directly, but as I mentioned above, this package is really made to be used in conjunction with ai2react-loader. If you do want to use the script directly, refer to the ai2html docs; running the script through Illustrator is exactly the same process.

Best of luck.