I am a new in using apostrophe. I read that apostrophe is build on node.js as a backend, express and nunjucks template
my questions is can I create my custom reusable component using react on apostrophe without using headless CMS?
or to be able to use react with apostrophe it must be with Rest API (headless CMS)
Can anyone help?
Yes, you can use React with Apostrophe, even if you are not using apostrophe-headless. React does not insist on "owning" the entire page, and neither does Apostrophe.
This can be as simple as adding some script tags to your outerLayout.html or an individual page template, overriding the extraHead nunjucks block to load them. You may want to bring babel into your project to allow the use of JSX however.
See the official React documentation on using it in existing websites.
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The app
The application was made using ReactJS, React Router Dom, Styled Components and Redux ducks.
The backend we consume is also made by us using Amazon Amplify and GraphQL.
The goal
We need to define the meta tags of one of the application pages so that it is possible to share personalized links to users
in social networks using OpenGraphic meta tags and the like.
The problem
The project was made in ReactJS and ReactJS has only one HTML page as root (/public/index.html), in this way, everything is generated with Javascript in a root tag, and when it arrives in the browser it is transpiled, as we already know. The problem is that the crawlers responsible for understanding the meta tags are not able to understand Javascript and end up not finding the dynamic data that I am defining on the page that I need to share the link on. They understand that there is one html file and only.
Attempts to resolve the issue
1) Define the meta tags in the /public/index.html file itself
This solution doesn't work because the data we are using is dynamic and the index.html file is a static file
2) Using react-helmet
The solution allows meta tags to be defined, but as already mentioned, crawlers don't understand JS. So, despite being on the page, the meta tags do not appear when sharing the link.
3) Using some SSR technology
This is a possible solution, but we were unable to integrate any SSR Framework into React. And it is not feasible to change the base technology of the project. We can't just switch from React to Next, for example, as the project is already complete.
4) Using a small server made with express.js along with the React application to replace the meta tags in index.html with string.replace() simulating something like an SSR
This solution works, but it causes two requests to be made every time the page is accessed, once by express.js and once on the front-end side by React. Due to the number of requests increasing, this solution was discarded. But if necessary, you can do it. In this case it is also necessary to check if Amplify can keep the application and the small server running in the same project.
5) Using react-snap with react-helmet
React-snap allows you to create html snapshots of the pages of a React project based on their routes and links, this added to react-helmet generates a perfect solution for links to be treated well by web crawlers when they are shared. But the solution doesn't work with dynamic routes. For example, /your-route/:id is a dynamic route that expects an id to be fully defined. React-snap gets lost when trying to create a snapshot of a route that only exists when the id is set. Unfortunately, this solution doesn't work.
These were the solutions we used to try to solve the problem, but it was not possible yet. Probably attempt 4 would be the most ideal to solve the problem. But we are looking for the best way that will not generate reworks and future problems. If someone knows a better way to do that, would help us a lot!
we're working with Apostrophe CMS v3 and we're trying to add some custom apps to the pages with React. I was able to add components inside using the React CND scripts and loading components as script files in views/layout.html. But it probably isn't best practice. I was wondering if theres a way to add React apps into Apostrophe using npm packages and imports. Thank you very much!
It looks like this question was cross-posted to the Github Discussions forum: https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/discussions/3393
The response there from the lead software architect:
You can do it in two ways. Which is best depends on your needs.
If you are building a single-page React app but you need some dynamically edited CMS content, you should most likely keep building your React app just as you have been, and use Apostrophe's REST APIs to access piece and
page CMS content where you need it. See the documentation on our REST APIs.
On the other hand, if you are building a pretty normal CMS-driven website
but you have a few experiences inside your pages that would benefit from
embedding a React application, you should carry on with your Nunjucks
templates for Apostrophe as you normally would to build a website with
Apostrophe, and in addition set up a webpack build of your own to build
your React apps, and push the output to a ui/public/build.js file nested
in any module of your Apostrophe project. Any .js file found in a
ui/public subdirectory of a module is automatically included in the
frontend bundle generated by Apostrophe.
In that situation, you can still use the REST APIs to access data from the
React app, or you can pass data via data attributes in your markup. If you
do the latter, the | jsonAttribute Nunjucks filter is helpful to turn it
into a string that is safe for incorporation into a quoted attribute in
your markup.
Hope that helps!
How do sites use ReactJS on their web pages when the whole site is not built with React?
I was under the impression that if you used ReactJS then the whole site had to be delivered using ReactJS.
So for example, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scores-fixtures which is part of the BBC website seems to use React (as per How to tell if a web application is using ReactJs ).
Always remember that react is just plain old Javascript, if you read the documentation you'd know that you can import it even with a tag or in any way you see fit.
Here's the link to the docs:
https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html
I have an application that is largely tables and standard pages and forms. However, I have one page this really need to be highly responsive that is probably best developed in React.js.
I would like to have a Flask + Jinja handle the delivery of most of the pages. I understand Facebook does a bit of this with PhP for the majority of the site with React.js handing the responsive components. Is there a Flask library that makes this simple?
I don't think you need to use any library for this as it's pretty straightforward.
All you need to do is:
Make that page using React.js and build the project to make bundle Javascript file which bootstraps the React.js page.
Make div inside your jinja template and import that bundle javascript file.
Here, one important thing is to assign identical 'id' to the Jinja template div and React.js rendering div.
I want to add react ace editor to a react native application to display javascript,c,java, html, xml files, is it possible ? If it is, I want to know if the performances will be correct ? And if it's not, do you know a component or a way to do that ?
Thanks
You can use a webView in react native and render in it an index.html file
stored locally and then put the javascript code, c code content in this html form
including the right js libraries to obtain the right coloration for each source code.
Your html can contain either a react component if you packed it in a bundle.js.
Then you can add your source code for right coloration using ajax call from your component for exemple if the code is stored on a server returning JSON.