React noob here, I am working on a simple JSX based component with the code below:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>React Boot camp Day 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id='app'></div>
<!--Needed for react code-->
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react#16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
<!--Needed for react dom traversal-->
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom#16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
<script src='https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone#6/babel.min.js'></script>
<script>
console.log('Test React', window.React)
const name = "Callat"
const handle = "#latimeks"
// create components and use jsx
function FirstComponent(props){
return <h1>{props.name}</h1>
}
function TestJSX(){
return (<FirstComponent name={name}/>)
}
ReactDOM.render(<TestJSX/>, document.getElementById('app'))
</script>
</body>
</html>
Running this code yields no UI and in dev tools I see this
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < index.html:42
Which is the
function FirstComponent(props){
return <h1>{props.name}</h1>
}
What is wrong here? According to everything I've seen online and in the bootcamp instructions my syntax is correct and this should work.
Can anyone give some insight?
I found an answer to this. Including the CDN was only part of the fix. The second part is to include the following:
<script type="text/babel">//My react code</script>
Once that's done reloading the page works. I really should get more used to the native react ecosystem though.
Related
I was following the 'Add React to a Website' guide on https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html#optional-try-react-with-jsx but it does not seem to work correctly for some reason.
The code that does not work:
index.html:
<html>
<head>
<!-- Load React -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react#16/umd/react.development.js" crossorigin></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom#16/umd/react-dom.development.js" crossorigin></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone#6/babel.min.js"></script>
<!-- Load React component. -->
<script src="test.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
</body>
</html>
test.js:
ReactDOM.render(
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
The code above will produce a blank page but when I add the react code on the index.html page like this:
<script>
ReactDOM.render(
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
</script>
It does work.
I have tried to replace
<script src="test.js"></script>
with
<script src="/test.js"></script>
and
<script src="./test.js"></script>
but that still does not work.
Also when I inspect element on the blank page it does show that it loads test.js
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
As the guide says:
Now you can use JSX in any <script> tag by adding type="text/babel"
attribute to it.
So you need <script src="test.js" type="text/babel"></script>.
Even you can do it without adding text/babel by just using React.creatElement API as recommneded by Dan Abramov, author of redux and part of Reactjs core team.
Here is the working codesanbox: React with no build config
I have the following react html page contents, and I would like to know the problems with this style of react development. Mainly I do not use any bundling tools. I am a newbie and finds this very easy for development and integration with server side languages.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>My First React Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="greeting-div"></div>
<script src="react.development.js"></script>
<script src="react-dom.development.js"></script>
<script src="browser.min.js"></script>
<script>
</script>
<script type="text/babel">
class Greeting extends React.Component{
render() {
return (
<p id="test">Hello, Universe</p>
)
}
};
ReactDOM.render(
<Greeting/>,
document.getElementById('greeting-div')
);
</script>
</body>
</html>
You can't have hot reloading which is pretty awesome in React.
It will also scale awfully as you will have all your elements inside of the same html.
It will probably be bad to run a linter / any code analysis tool for it.
You should probably try create-react-app: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app, it's really simple to get started and you'll get a really good development setup.
This is my first react code to try react work in my laptop but it does not work
As you can see in the picture, the shadow ends before . The shadow must be covering all script tags. I do not know why!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="js/react.js"></script>
<script src="js/react-dom.js"></script>
<script src="js/browser.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id = "dome"></div>
<script type='text/jsx'>
ReactDOM.render(<h1>Hello React </h1>,document.getElementById("dome");
</script>
</body>
</html>
JSX is not valid javascript, so it has to be transpiled first. this is why you get the error there. The source you mentioned is somewhat outdated, and is not the origin actually.
Just go with the actual tutorial here:
https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html
Your code have a syntax error, bracket of render function is not closed.
ReactDOM.render(<h1>Hello React </h1>,document.getElementById("dome");
Use this:
ReactDOM.render(<h1>Hello React </h1>,document.getElementById("dome"));
Edit: If you want use JSX, you should use text/babel in script type and be sure to import browser.js file.
<script type='text/babel'>
ReactDOM.render(<h1>Hello React </h1>, document.getElementById("dome"));
</script>
Any pointers would be appreciated. I'm new to React and JSX and Babel and am just trying to get something bare-bones working. I've been at this for a while and I'm at a dead end.
Here's my html page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test React</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react#16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom#16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/babel-core/5.8.34/browser.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/babel" src="../TestReact/res/js/main.jsx"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div>Page to Test React Library</div>
<p></p>
<div>
<button onclick="addComponent()">Add Component</button>
</div>
<p></p>
<div id="root">
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here's my "main.jsx" file:
addComponent = function (){
ReactDOM.render(
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
};
I'm using Chrome 61.
If I include either type="text/babel" or type="text/jsx" on my script tag, I get an exception: "Uncaught ReferenceError: addComponent is not defined".
If I remove this type attribute on the script tag, then (of course) I get an error for "unexpected token <" because the html/xml is not going to be transpiled.
When I have the type attribute (for jsx/babel) on the script tag removed AND I enclose the html in my addComponent method in quotes, then I get no errors, but I end up with the literal string
"<h1>Hello, world!</h1>"
rendered on the page in the 'root' div instead of an embedded header element - naturally, but at least that tells me that my small javascript and ReactDOM library are imported and working.
So it seems like the problem is that the JSX transpiling is not happening for some reason.
<---- UPDATE 201710011830 ---->
It seems that the problem I'm having is related to having ReactDOM.render called from within a javascript function ("addComponent") in my JSX file that is supposed to handle a button onclick event. If I remove the addComponent function so that main.jsx looks like this:
ReactDOM.render(
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
then the h1 element is inserted on the page as it should be.
So the question then becomes, why won't it work the way I initially intended? Is it because of the syntax I used to define that addComponent function within the original JSX script?
You need to add bundle.js to your index.html file like below.
<body>
....
<div id="root"></div>
<script src="/bundle.js"></script>
</body>
bundle.js is the distribution which packs all the react components and dependencies and put them together in your dev environment using webpack.
Add type="text/babel" to your script tag will transform your code which in main.jsx file. I think this transform effect your addComponent function that makes your code doesn't work.
You can try just put the jsx or react component code in main.jsx, like: window.Hello = <h1>hello</h1>; then in the html（or somewhere out of main.jsx）, you can write
addComponent = function (){
const Hello = window.Hello;
ReactDOM.render(
<Hello />,
document.getElementById('root')
);
};
But I highly recommend use webpack, a simple demo: https://github.com/yujiangshui/react-i18n-demo
just began to learn React and here are my very simple JSX and HTML files. I don't see any error in Console (Chrome) when I run it from my http-server. However the button Im expecting to see won't show in the browser. I'm not sure why it does not and what is missing.
Can anyone please help? Also why should we specify type=text/babel" in the tag? If I don't do this, I get an error (unexpected syntax <) in console.
Thanks!
Prem
HTML Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>
!My first React JS Component!
</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script src="react.js"></script>
<script src="script.jsx" type="text/babel"></script>
</body>
</html>
my JSX File:
var Button = React.createClass({
render: function () {
return (
<button> Go! </button>
)
}
});
ReactDOM.render(<Button />, document.getElementById("root"));
You cannot just include the jsx in your site like that - it won't work :)
You need to transpile your jsx via a tool like Webpack.
The official documentation really is excellent and easy to understand, and it should explain how you setup a basic environment.
Also, there are dozens of tutorials on this, but here's a free one that I found helpful and easy to understand on youtube:
React + Redux + Webpack (Feel free to skip the redux part for a starter - really just a popular addon to React for managing state, which you can expand upon later)
For good measure, something like this should work:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/babel-core/5.8.23/browser.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.14.7/react.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.14.7/react-dom.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="app"></div>
<script type="text/babel" src="app.jsx"></script>
</body>
</html>
App.jsx:
ReactDOM.render(
<h1>Hello React!</h1>,
document.getElementById('app')
);