react-hydra

What is Hydra?
================

Hydra exposes the renderToString() and renderToStaticMarkup() methods within React.js as a service. It is intended as a way of using a React.js front-end without losing the benefits of SEO in non-javascript server languages.

Installation
================

Install it with npm along with your other node_modules

``
npm install react-hydra
`

Configuration
===============

Hydra can be configured via two methods:

- a react-hydra.json file placed in the same location as hydras app.js
- a custom json file with a command line argument supplied with the call to node e.g. node app.js config="path/to/config"

Default Configuration
--------------

`
{
"port": 10054
}
`

Sample Setup
==============

Here is a sample package.json file, the important part is the hydra script, this allows us to run the npm run-script hydra command and the service will share its react components with the main project without modification to require calls.

`
{
"name": "impl",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"hydra": "node ./node_modules/react-hydra/app.js config=\"path/to/my/custom/hydra.json\""
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"express": "^4.12.4",
"react-hydra": "1.0.0"
}
}
``

Copyright (c) 2015, Adam Kent
All rights reserved.

This project is licensed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.