babel-plugin-transform-react-pug

babel-plugin-transform-react-pug

Use Pug templates to write react components.

babel-plugin-transform-react-pug is a plugin for babel which transpiles pug syntax within template literals to jsx.

Write your components this way:

export default const ReactComponent = props => pug`
  .wrapper
    if props.shouldShowGreeting
      p.greeting Hello World!

    button(onClick=props.notify) Click Me
`

And it will be transpiled into:

export default const ReactComponent = props => (
  <div className="wrapper">
    {props.shouldShowGreeting && (
      <p className="greeting">Hello World</p>
    )}
    <button onClick={props.notify}>Click Me</button>
  </div>
)

• Usage
  • Syntax
  • Eslint integration
  • CSS Modules
• Install
  • create-react-app
  • React Native
• How it works
• Limitations
• FAQ
  • Can I import template from other files?
  • How to get syntax highlighting in IDE (or text editors)?
• License

Usage

Syntax

Full information of the syntax you can find in official documentation: pugjs.org.

Basic example

const Component = props => pug`          //- const Component = props => (
  div                                    //-   <div>
    if props.amount > MAX_AMOUNT         //-     {props.amount > MAX_AMOUNT ? (
      OtherComponent(fluid crucial)      //-       <OtherComponent fluid crucial />
    else                                 //-     ) : (
      p You can set bigger amount ;)     //-       <p>You can set bigger amount ;)</p>
                                         //-     )}
    each item, index in props.items      //-     {props.items.map((item, index) => (
      div(key=item.id)                   //-       <div key={item.id}>
        h3 Header #{index + 1}           //-         <h3>Header {index + 1}</h3>
        = item.body                      //-         {item.body}
                                         //-       </div>
                                         //-     )}
                                         //-   </div>
                                         //- )
`;

How to pass functions and other primitives

const Component = props => pug`          //- const Component = props => (
  div                                    //-   <div>
    button(                              //-     <button
      type="button"                      //-       type="button"
      onClick=props.onClick              //-       onClick={props.onClick}
    ) Click Me                           //-     >Click Me</button>
                                         //-
    OtherComponent(                      //-     <OtherComponent
      ...props.objectWithPropsForChild   //-       {...props.objectWithPropsForChild}
      fluid                              //-       fluid
      data-array=[1, 2, 3]               //-       data-array={[1, 2, 3]}
    )                                    //-     />
                                         //-   </div>
                                         //- )
`;

Define local variables and use javascript in attributes

const Component = props => pug`          //- const Component = props => (
  Fragment                               //-   <Fragment>
    button(                              //-     <button
      ...one                             //-       {...one}
      ...two                             //-       {...two}
      onClick=() => alert('Hello')       //-       onClick={() => alert('Hello')}
      text='number ' + 10                //-       text={'number ' + 10}
      condition=foo === bar ? foo : bar  //-       condition={foo === bar ? foo : bar}
    )                                    //-     ></button>
                                         //-
    - const variable = format(props.no)  //-
    p Variable is #{variable}            //-     <p>Variable is {format(props.no)}</p>
                                         //-   </Fragment>
                                         //- )
`;

Interpolation

If you'd prefer to use interpolation, you can. This is possible by using ${} within your template.

const Component = props => pug`
  ul(className=${props.modifier})
    ${props.items.map((item, index) => pug`li(key=${index}) ${item}`)}
`;

Eslint integration

Install eslint-plugin-react-pug if you use eslint-plugin-react.

CSS Modules

It's not supported well yet.

Install

1. Install via yarn or npm

   yarn add --dev babel-plugin-transform-react-pug
   

   npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-react-pug
   

2. Add to babel configuration before transpiling jsx (usually in .babelrc)

   {
     "plugins": [
       "transform-react-pug",
       "transform-react-jsx"
     ]
   }
   

3. Now all your templates written with pug are understood by react and browsers.

create-react-app

Integrating with create-react-app is tricky because it does not allow you to modify babel configuration. There are two documented possibilities:

• eject

  That is easy, you will get .babelrc file in your root directory, just add transform-react-pug before transform-react-jsx there.

• react-app-rewired

  Go through official instruction to rewire your application. Then modify your config-overrides.js:

  + const {injectBabelPlugin} = require('react-app-rewired');
    module.exports = function override(config, env) {
  -   //do stuff with the webpack config...
  +   config = injectBabelPlugin('transform-react-pug', config);
      return config;
    }
  

React Native

Just add this plugin to the list in .babelrc file.

  {
-   "presets": ["react-native"]
+   "presets": ["react-native"],
+   "plugins": ["transform-react-pug"]
  }

We don't need transform-react-jsx here because it's coming with react-native preset.

How it works

Coming soon...

Limitations

• We can't use dots in component names because pugjs treats everything after dot as a className. For example, React.Fragment becomes <React className="Fragment" />, not <React.Fragment />

FAQ

Can I import template from other files?

No.

Coming soon...

How to get syntax highlighting in IDE (or text editors)?

Here is an instruction for Atom text editor.

1. Install language-babel and language-pug-jade

   I suggest language-pug-jade because it works better for me. But there are more approaches for building pugjs grammar: language-pug and atom-pug, and you can try them too.

2. Open settings of language-babel in atom

3. Find the field under "JavaScript Tagged Template Literal Grammar Extensions"

4. Enter: pug:source.pug

   More details: gandm/language-babel#javascript-tagged-template-literal-grammar-extensions

5. Restart the atom

License

MIT