.. _reactjs_support:

Facebook React Support
======================

Assuming you have `npm` available, you can install `babel` via `npm install -g babel` and integrate React with
Django Compressor by following the `react-tools installation instructions`_ and adding an appropriate
``COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS`` setting:

.. code-block:: django

    COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = (
       ('text/jsx', 'cat {infile} | babel > {outfile}'),
    )


.. _react-tools installation instructions: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tooling-integration.html#productionizing-precompiled-jsx

If the above approach is not suitable for you, compiling React's jsx files can be done by creating
a custom precompressor.

Requirements
------------
* PyReact>=0.5.2 for compiling jsx files
* PyExecJS>=1.1.0 required by PyReact (automatically installed when using pip)
* A Javascript runtime : options include PyV8, Node.js, PhantomJS among others


The full list of supported javascript engines can be found here:
    https://github.com/doloopwhile/PyExecJS


Installation
------------
1. Place the following code in a Python file (e.g.
   ``third_party/react_compressor.py``).  Also make sure that
   ``third_party/__init__.py`` exists so the directory is recognized as a
   Python package.

.. code-block:: django

    from compressor.filters import FilterBase
    from react import jsx


    class ReactFilter(FilterBase):

        def __init__(self, content, *args, **kwargs):
            self.content = content
            kwargs.pop('filter_type')
            super().__init__(content, *args, **kwargs)

        def input(self, **kwargs):
            return jsx.transform_string(self.content)


2. In your Django settings, add the following line:

.. code-block:: django

    COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = (
        ('text/jsx', 'third_party.react_compressor.ReactFilter'),
    )

Where ``third_party.react_compressor.ReactFilter`` is the full name of your ``ReactFilter`` class.


Troubleshooting
---------------
If you get "file not found" errors, open your Python command line and make sure
you are able to import your ``ReactFilter`` class:

.. code-block:: django

    __import__('third_party.react_compressor.ReactFilter')

