react-render

Render isomorphic _React_ apps and components in Node.

An example implementation of the companion package @sequencemedia/react-router-redux-render can be found in react-router-pagination-io.

Example

In Express:

``javascript
const express = require('express')

const app = express()
const port = 3000

const {
renderToString
} = require('react-render')

const App = require('./path/to/react/app')

app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send(renderToString(App)))

app.listen(port, () => console.log(Express ${port}))
`

If renderToString encounters an error then it throws a 500 Internal Server Error. Otherwise, it returns a string.

You can supply App with props using the second argument:

`javascript
renderToString(App, {})
`

(Since this is not a _Redux_ app you are likely to use props.)

In this package

react-render exports three functions:

1. renderToString
2. renderToStaticMarkup
3. render

renderToString generates including the attributes that _React_ uses in ReactDOM.hydrate(). It implements ReactDOMServer.renderToString().

renderToStaticMarkup doesn't include those attributes. It's useful for using React as a rendering engine for static pages. It implements ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup().

render executes renderToString but returns a Promise which resolves to a string.

Companion packages

1. @sequencemedia/react-router-redux-render for React Router apps (with Redux)
2. @sequencemedia/react-router-render for React Router apps (without Redux)
3. @sequencemedia/react-redux-render` for React Redux apps (without React Router)