- ShakaCode now maintains the official successor to
rails/webpacker,shakapacker. - Project is updated to support Rails 7 and Shakapacker v6+!
These are the docs for React on Rails 13. To see the older docs: v12 and v11.
React on Rails integrates Rails with (server rendering of) Facebook's React front-end framework.
This project is maintained by the software consulting firm ShakaCode. We focus on Ruby on Rails applications with React front-ends, often using TypeScript or ReScript (ReasonML). We also build React Native apps and Gatsby sites. See our recent work for examples of what we do. ShakaCode.com (HiChee.com) is hiring developers that like working on open-source.
Are you interested in optimizing your webpack setup for React on Rails including code splitting with react-router and loadable-components with server-side rendering for SEO and hot-reloading for developers? We did this for Popmenu, lowering Heroku costs 20-25% while getting a 73% decrease in average response times. Several years later, Popmenu is serving millions of SSR requests per day with React on Rails.
Check out React on Rails Pro. For more information, feel free to contact Justin Gordon, justin@shakacode.com, maintainer of React on Rails.
See the documentation at shakacode.com/react-on-rails/docs.
To provide a high performance framework for integrating Ruby on Rails with React via the Webpacker gem, especially regarding React Server-Side Rendering for better SEO and improved performance.
Given that rails/webpacker gem already provides basic React integration, why would you use "React on Rails"?
- Automatic configuration of what bundles are added to the page based on what React components are on the page. This results in faster browser loading time via smaller bundle sizes.
- Keep up with the latest changes of different versions of React. React 18 is supported.
- Easy passing of props directly from your Rails view to your React components rather than having your Rails view load and then make a separate request to your API. Tight integration with shakapacker (or it's predecessor rails/webpacker).
- Server-Side Rendering (SSR), often used for SEO crawler indexing and UX performance.
- Automated optimized entry-point creation and bundle inclusion when placing a component on a page. With this feature, you no longer need to configure
javascript_pack_tagsandstylesheet_pack_tagson your layouts based on what’s shown. “It just works!” - Redux and React Router integration with server-side-rendering.
- Internationalization (I18n) and (localization)
- A supportive community. This web search shows how live public sites are using React on Rails.
- ReScript Support.
See Rails/Webpacker React Integration Options for comparisons to other gems.
- See the react-webpack-rails-tutorial for an example of a live implementation and code.
- A deployed version of the project
spec/dummywhich demonstrates several uses ofreact_on_railsis available on heroku through this link
Requires creating a free account.
- How to use different versions of a file for client and server rendering
- How to conditionally render server side based on the device type
Ruby on Rails >=5, rails/webpacker >= 4.2 or shakapacker > 6, Ruby >= 2.7
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- See NEWS.md for more notes over time.
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Bug reports and pull requests are welcome. See Contributing to get started, and the list of help wanted issues.
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The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
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