I would like to use Protractor to perform automatic screenshots across all our e2e tests.
The purpose for that is to be able to review those screenshots occasionally in case there're some visual slips we introduced. My idea to accomplish this automatically is to take a screenshot after angular ui router performs state transition.
The transition is a good indication we'll be looking at a different view. My question thus is, is it possible for Protractor to hook up to state transition?
For AngularJS (1) you can use mockModules, I don't exactly know if you can hook onto the router then. With Angular (2) you can't use mockModules.
Possible alternatives are:
listen to url changes
Create a customer methods that also adds taking a screenshot after url change when you click on an element that results in a route change.
Hope it helps
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I have a problem with blocking page changes in the application. The application is written in react and installed in liferay (CMS). It wants to keep the user on the payment intermediary selection screen. Unfortunately, the methods I know do not work properly. Blocking on the "beforeunload" event only blocks the closing of the page or its refresh (I'm only interested in closing the tab, but it is an additional condition). Blocking the website by react router doesn't work properly either. The prompt component works only within the scope of the added page, and no longer works in the navigation created on liferay. This is the same for useHistory (history.block('msg')), because it works just like the prompt component. I also tried to get this effect with other events, unfortunately to no avail. Does anyone have an idea to solve this problem? Thank you in advance.
I'm not aware about Liferay navigation behavior but I can see two resolutions:
you could go on using react router to block the transition to another route:
You could find a full example on the official docs (https://reactrouter.com/web/example/preventing-transitions).
<Prompt
when={isBlocking}
message={location =>
`Are you sure you want to go to ${location.pathname}`
}
/>
if there are parts of your application not handled by react-router you could rely on some event from history, like the one described here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowEventHandlers/onpopstate
A popstate event is dispatched to the window each time the active history entry changes between two history entries for the same document.
react-tabulator is a library providing an integration of Tabulator in React. Their solution to render a React component within a Tabulator formater uses this function. However, I don't think this is 100% correct, because based on the React doc on integrating React w/ plain JS, ReactDOM.unmountComponentAtNode() needs to be called on dispose in order to to some cleanup. I also communicated this to the author within a GitHub issue, and maybe he'll provide additional info.
My question: is there a hook/handler/way to receive notifications when a cell is being disposed? 1) This will allow me to call the mentioned method, so that React can do some cleanup. 2) This opens also the path towards an alternative approach, leveraging React portals.
Thank you in advance!
I have created an implementation using portals in this gist. It's a Storybook pages. I'm using semantic-ui-react in my project, so a copy/paste of the file may need adapting.
I don't know if it's OK to have thousands of portals. I.e. one per cell. Also, I didn't see any action do "dispose" a portal. I hope that disposing the DOM element where the portal was rendered suffices. Otherwise => memory leaks possible I think.
I'm fairly new to react; just learning it. From what I understand react gives you ability to render data more dynamically. But couldn't this be achieved using flask rest api endpoints? Kind of making AJAX calls and rendering it's response dynamically?
What's the difference?
I'm currently trying to develop a full stack application. Trying to choose what I should use for frontend, typically on a normal day I tend to use pure HTML/CS/JS to accomplish most of my front-end task without having to use JS libraries such as react to render data dynamically, I want to improve my ways around handling front-end stuff hence wanted to learn more about react and how it can benefit me; before actually diving in it.
What can help is; if someone can lay it out for me; describing work scenario using reactjs and how I can be benefiting from using the js library.
Thanks.
In my opinion, React is all about how effectively you can render your dom elements.
Rendering DOM (Painting your webpage with your HTML elements) is considered to be one of the costliest operation. And if you consider using other libraries( apart from react), there is a chance that your HTML will be rendered even if it doesnt change.
Here comes the power of React. React uses the concept of Virtual DOM which helps in rendering HTML to browser only when there is a change. For example, if you have a list of items being displayed, and if one list item changed because of some action, React will trigger a change to render only that element(of course we write very minimal code for this).
So if you use React as your front end library, you can easily benefit fast rendering of HTML and stopping unnecessary rendering of your DOM
The question here is not about is this a good idea or not, because there is a real use-case : I'm scraping a specific website from a headless browser for an internal service and I need to extract data from react.
From an active production application, I would like to retrieve props from the root component using only "pure" JavaScript. The only thing I got is a div right now.
The constraints are:
It must be done using pure JavaScript (or using standard React lib)
I cannot add/setup react-devtools extensions or things like that
So far I could always hack into an event handler that I would trigger to manage to enter into React context but I'm looking for cleaner alternatives, any ideas?
I'm facing some issues when rendering a React component into the shadow DOM of a webcomponent.
I wrote a small piece of code to turn a React component into a webcomponent, but I want to render the
React component inside the shadow DOM of the webcomponent. But in that case, it seems that React is not able to catch UI events (click, keyPress, etc ...) anymore.
Let's take an example, let say that I have a first webcomponent <awesome-timer /> that render the React component inside the webcomponent node, and another webcomponent <less-awesome-timer /> that render the React component inside the shadow DOM of the webcomponent.
Both webcomponents use the same React component. However the one rendered inside the shadow DOM does not work, because click events on the button of the timer component does not trigger the bound function.
I guess React is not designed to handle such case, but I'd love to get more details about it.
The code of the example is available here : https://gist.github.com/mathieuancelin/cca14d31184bf4468bc1
Does anyone have an idea about it ?
I know this is kinda late but, I believe your issue when you pass any attributes to a web component they instantly become strings Because that's all you can pass to a web component. Now of course you can convert or cast them back to there original data type, except functions because once stringified they loose there scoping, lexical and all.
Now to your main question, you are were trying to pass you child element through the Main web components slot. Now you have to remember that once you pass anything to a web component you now have to use the webs components methods and return types to manage whatever you pass. So yes passing react into a web component will not work they you expect.
You will need to go back to whatever tool you use to build your web component and deal with the slot logic there. Since this is a very old post as are web components. You might not have had access to the modern web component build tool's we have today. I found Stenicl allows you to build and manage your web components in Typescript.
A good option is to change your pattern a little bit and just return web components from your react app.
Or you can use another really cool to call Lit-HTML or Lit-element. I believe they may have combined there core libraries. Anyway these tool will allow you to combine Reactjs and web components where lit-html gives you access to methods simial to Reactjs's life cycle methods. Anyway some good stuff to check out if your stuck at this point.