React.rb

Build your next Rails app in 100% Ruby

Mitch VanDuyn

Cofounder CatPrint.com LLC

 

CatPrint is an e-commerce print shop

Specializing in short run, very high quality print fulfillment

 

Highly automated cloud based, order to ship process.

 

mitch@catprint.com - 585-278-6308

 

 

 

 

 

People pay us to Print!

(not write software)

What if you had a SW company that spent 5% of your revenue on office printing????

In 2007, the software industry and related activities contributed $261 billion to a total US GDP or approximately 1.8% of the total.

 

In 2012 this had grown to 2.6%

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/09/software-is-eating-the-job-market/

Too many languages!

7 requirements

  1. When you type at the top and return it adds a new Todo to the list.

  2. When you click the checkbox the todo is marked as complete

  3. When you click on a completed todo, it goes back to incomplete

  4. If you double click on the title, you can edit the title of the todo

  5. The footer shows the total todos,and number of incomplete todo.

  6. The footer has links to change how the Todos are filtered

  7. All the Todos are saved to a server database

At least 5 languages

  1. HTML

  2. CSS

  3. Javascript

  4. Some server side language (i.e. Ruby)

  5. Some templating language (i.e. ERB)

One Language To Rule Them All

FooterLink X 3
Displays the filter

name highlighted if that filter is active

Footer
shows number of items left (pluralized), and the three filter links (all, completed, active)

EditItem X 2
User can add or edit a todo.
TodoItem
Displays Todo title and a checkbox. 

- When checked the todo is "complete".

- When the title is double clicked the Title is editable.

- A delete button will permanently delete the todo

Advantages

One syntax to learn

Isomorphic Models (same code client and server)

Server side rendering (fast loads, and awesome SEO)

Uses existing, mature tool chain

Logical separation of concerns

Easy to understand: State + Render Method => Output

Simple to learn: you have seen most of the features - really!

Naturally reusable

Easily Testable

Why not javascript

JSX syntax is really 3 languages shoved together

JS tool chain is maturing but is no where close to Ruby's

We want to keep using rails server side

Getting Started

  • why react:
    http://blog.andrewray.me/reactjs-for-stupid-people
  • general docs:
    http://reactrb.org
  • learn the dsl:
    http://reactrb.org/docs/tutorial.html
  • how to integrate with rails:
    https://github.com/loicboutet/reactrb_tutorial
  • build this todo app yourself:
    stay tuned... 
  • once you are familiar with the basic dsl any react.js tutorial should be easy to follow
  • a great performance comparison:
    jgaskins.org/blog/2016/02/28/turbolinks-vs-the-virtual-dom

Contributing

Yes Please!

Pull requests welcome for:

react.rb

reactive-record

reactive-router

reactive_rails_generator

reactrb.org (documentation)

plus we love blog posts

and we need a gem to install the spec helpers

Credits

  • Opal - Ruby Transpiler Team
  • Facebook React
  • @zetachang for the original DSL idea
  • @ajjahn for getting all the testing done
  • @fkchang for his good great ideas
  • @loicboutet for pulling the original demo together

More Info

  • visit http://reactrb.org
  • https://gitter.im/zetachang/react.rb live chat
  • stack overflow tag react.rb for specific questions
  • contributors WELCOME!
TopBar
User can type a todo, todo is added when user hits return key.
TodoList
Shows all todos based

on current filter

TodoItem
Displays Todo title and a checkbox. 

- When checked the todo is "complete".

- When the title is double clicked the Title is editable.

- A delete button will permanently delete the todo

Footer
shows number of items left, 
allows the filter to be changed
and all the completed components to be deleted
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