react-shadow

Utilise Shadow DOM in React with all the benefits of style encapsulation.

   

• npm: npm i react-shadow --save
• Heroku: http://react-shadow.herokuapp.com/

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Getting Started

By using ReactShadow you have all the benefits of Shadow DOM in React.

import ShadowDOM from 'react-shadow';

export default props => {

    return (
        <ShadowDOM include={['css/core/calendar.css', props.theme]}>
            <h1>Calendar for {props.date}</h1>
        </ShadowDOM>
    );

}

In the above example the h1 element will become the host element with a shadow boundary — and the two defined CSS documents will be fetched and appended.

Avoiding FOIC

As the CSS documents are being fetched over the network, the host element will have a className of resolving for you to avoid the dreaded FOIC. Once all of the documents have been attached the className will change to resolved.

Cached Documents

Where components share documents, only one instance will be fetched due to memoize of the fetchInclude function.

Inlining Styles

Instead of defining external CSS documents to fetch, you could choose to add all of the component's styles to the component itself by simply embedding a style node in your component. Naturally all styles added this way will be encapsulated within the shadow boundary.

export default props => {

    const styles = `:host { background-color: ${props.theme} }`;

    return (
        <ShadowDOM>
          <div>
            <h1>Calendar for {props.date}</h1>
            <style type="text/css">{styles}</style>
          </div>
        </ShadowDOM>
    );
}

It's worth noting that if you combine this approach with the loading of external CSS documents, you will have 2 style (or more) nodes in your component.