react-dom-parser

React-DOM-Parser

A DOM parser for the react.js library, used for instantiating react components declaratively in your html.

This tool is to be used with a bundler such as browserfy but can be adpated for other use cases.

Installation

npm install react-dom-parser --save-dev

Example

html declaration

<div data-react-component="my-module" data-react-props="
	name: 'simon staton',
	data: {
		age: 23
	}
" id="modules-wrapper"></div>

Before instantiating a react component you must first register it in the parsers registry.

// Require parser
var parser = require('react-dom-parser');

// An example react component
var myReactComponent = React.createClass({
	render: function(){
		return ...
	}
});

// Register individually
parser.register('my-module', myReactComponent);

// Register multiples
parser.register({
	'my-module': myReactComponent
});

Once modules have been registered you may parse the DOM or any other DOM element to instantiate them

parser.parse(document.getElementsByTagName("BODY")[0]);

It is also possible to retrieve a react components instance using the getByNode method

var myReactComponentInstance = parser.getByNode(document.getElementById('modules-wrapper'));