Configuring Iron Router in Meteor - React

Question

Using Meteor 1.2.0.1 and React. My simple app works great but now I needed iron router.

app layout:

client\
  app.jsx
lib\
  router.jsx
server
views\
  home.jsx
  layout.jsx

home.jsx:

Home = React.createClass({
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <h3>Hello World</h3>
        <p>from home</p>
      </div>
    );
  }
});

layout.jsx:

Layout = React.createClass({
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        {this.props.children}
      </div>
    );
  }
});

routes.jsx:

Router.route('/', () => {
  let page = (
    <Layout>
      <Home/>
    </Layout>
  );
  React.render(page, document.body);
});

Surely enough, in my app.jsx, works great as it displays to the body of the html but the setup would not work for a multi-page app so this is the need for routes. Inside is:

Meteor.startup(() => {
  let app = (
    <Layout>
      <Home/>
    </Layout>
  );
  React.render(app, document.body);
});

The question is, how to get iron router (routes.jsx) to show the contents?

Answer 1

I would strongly recommend using Flow Router instead of Iron Router. Add Flow Router to your app, then add kadira:react-layout as well. Follow this format and it should work:

FlowRouter.route('/', {
  name: 'home',
  action() {
    ReactLayout.render(Layout, {content: <Home />});
  }
});

FlowRouter.route('/login', {
  name: 'loginPage',
  action() {
    ReactLayout.render(Layout, {content: <Login />});
  }
});

And your Layout component should look like:

Layout = React.createClass({
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <Header />

        {this.props.content}
      </div>
    );
  }
});

To route to a page that takes a parameter:

FlowRouter.route('/detail/:id', {
  name: 'prodDetail',
  action() {
    ReactLayout.render(Layout, {content: <ProdDetail />});
  }
});

And then in your ProdDetail component, you can refer to FlowRouter.getParam('id'). Check out the full FlowRouter documentation.