For the last week now I've been completely at a loss for how to set up server side rendering with React. This is a new project but it's an express server and I'm attempting to render just a super simple hello world react app which uses react-router-component..
I think the best way for me to get some help is to share the code I have right now and I'm hoping somebody can please tell me what I'm doing wrong! I've followed tutorial after tutorial and tried all sorts of different things but I keep getting error after error!
This is my app.js for the express server, the relevant code is the * route if you scroll down a bit:
require('node-jsx').install({extension: '.jsx'}); var React = require('react'); var App = require('./src/App.jsx'); var request = require('superagent'); var express = require('express'); var path = require('path'); var favicon = require('serve-favicon'); var logger = require('morgan'); var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser'); var bodyParser = require('body-parser'); var url = require('url'); //Database and Passport requires var mongoose = require('mongoose'); var passport = require('passport'); var LocalStrategy = require('passport-local'); // var api = require('./routes/api'); var app = express(); app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views')); app.set('view engine', 'jade'); // uncomment after placing your favicon in /public //app.use(favicon(__dirname + '/public/favicon.ico')); app.use(logger('dev')); app.use(bodyParser.json()); app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false })); app.use(cookieParser()); app.use(require('express-session')({ secret: 'secret', resave: false, saveUninitialized: false })); app.use(passport.initialize()); app.use(passport.session()); app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public'))); //passport config var Account = require('./models/account'); passport.use(new LocalStrategy(Account.authenticate())); passport.serializeUser(Account.serializeUser()); passport.deserializeUser(Account.deserializeUser()); //mongoose mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/database'); //THIS is the relevant section that renders React and sends to client app.get('*', function(req, res, next){ var path = url.parse(req.url).pathname; React.renderToString( React.createFactory(App({path : path})), function(err, markup) { res.send('<!DOCTYPE html>' + markup); } ); }); // catch 404 and forward to error handler app.use(function(req, res, next) { var err = new Error('Not Found'); err.status = 404; next(err); }); // error handlers // development error handler // will print stacktrace if (app.get('env') === 'development') { app.use(function(err, req, res, next) { res.status(err.status || 500); res.render('error', { message: err.message, error: err }); }); } // production error handler // no stacktraces leaked to user app.use(function(err, req, res, next) { res.status(err.status || 500); res.render('error', { message: err.message, error: {} }); }); module.exports = app; the App.jsx file being required in the app.js file:
/** * @jsx React.DOM */ var React = require('react'); var Router = require('react-router-component'); var Locations = Router.Locations; var Location = Router.Location; var Index = require('./components/Index.jsx'); var App = React.createClass({ render: function() { return ( <html> <head lang="en"> <meta charSet="UTF-8"/> <title>React App</title> </head> <body> <div id="main"> <Locations path={this.props.path}> <Location path="/" handler={Index} /> </Locations> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="./javascripts/bundle.js"></script> </body> </html> ) } }); module.exports = App; and the Index.jsx file required in the App.jsx:
var React = require('react'); var Index = React.createClass({ render: function() { return ( <div className="test"> <span>Whats going on</span> </div> ) } }); module.exports = Index; I'm only showing you my most recent attempt at getting this to work here but rest assured I've tried all different methods to render a react component, such as renderComponentToString, I've also tried React.renderToString(React.createElement(App)) etc etc..
But now I keep getting this error "Cannot read property '__reactAutoBindMap' of undefined"
Please Help!!! :) Thanks