Consider integration with react-stdio for server rendering

[justin808]

• @mjackson: https://github.com/mjackson/react-stdio
• @hassox: http://blog.overstuffedgorilla.com/render-react-with-phoenix/

@mjackson has created react-stdio. We should look into integrating this with react_on_rails.

@alexfedoseev: this looks promising
@cowboyd: Any thoughts on this compared to what we currently use: https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer

[mjackson]

Just for clarification, it's react-stdio, not react-studio :)

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:31 PM Justin Gordon [email protected]
wrote:

• @mjackson https://github.com/mjackson:
  https://github.com/mjackson/react-stdio
• @hassox https://github.com/hassox:
  http://blog.overstuffedgorilla.com/render-react-with-phoenix/

@mjackson https://github.com/mjackson has created react-studio. We
should look into integrating this with react_on_rails.

@alexfedoseev https://github.com/alexfedoseev: this looks promising
@cowboyd https://github.com/cowboyd: Any thoughts on this compared to
what we currently use: https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer

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[justin808]

@mjackson Thanks. Studio sounds kind of cool 😃.
Any thoughts on a Rails integration?

[mjackson]

Probably the first step would be to create a Ruby wrapper for react-stdio that knows how to feed its stdin and parse its stdout. After that, integration with Rails should be fairly straightforward.

[aaronvb]

I looked into implementing this into react_on_rails(and in react-rails). With our current server rendering method it's not going to work 'out of the box'. react-stdio takes a path to a component whereas we pass a string of JS code(with polyfills) to ExecJS(therubyracer).

I ended up writing a little react-stdio wrapper for Rails that could be helpful in pursuing this option: https://github.com/aaronvb/rails_react_stdio.

[justin808]

@aaronvb If you get this working, you will be a

HERO

[justin808]

@aaronvb any word on this one?

[aaronvb]

@justin808 I haven't put much work into this. I'm open to pairing up or starting a branch for collaboration on this.

[justin808]

@aaronvb Any progress on this one? We really should try this one!

[justin808]

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