I'm trying to use React to simplify the way I build UI for an app I'm writing. I've got a good proof of concept working in a single HTML page, but I need to split out the JS into individual modules to make it easier to maintain.
I know how I would structure the app if every piece of the puzzle is known at build time. Something like this: https://github.com/jordwalke/reactapp. However, the UI will be built up dynamically in PHP, nesting various components which I want to pass into the app.
My initial thought of dumping the generated code into a script tag and having the Javascript find it has led me into a horrible dependencies hell.
My primary question is:
How do I pass something like
<panel><group><field /></group></panel>
into the app so I can callReact.render()
on it?
As @llernestal and @MikeDriver suggested in the comments, I used PHP to build a JSON representation of the UI and had React build the components needed to render the UI.