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This project was originally created as an alternative to the Ink library, as a separate renderer for a real React component tree, for the command line. Ink has since changed its architecture to also become just a separate renderer, allowing the use of the actual React library. With this change, react-cli adds no extra value beyond the capabilities of the Ink library, which has a much larger user-base and its better supported.

ReactCLI

ReactCLI is a react renderer for the command line. All of the benefits of React, right in your terminal.

import ReactCLI, { Section } from "react-cli-renderer";
import React from "react";
import chalk from "chalk";

class MyReactCLIApp extends React.Component {
  state = {
    step: 0
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    setTimeout(() => this.setState({ step: 1 }), 1000);
    setTimeout(() => this.setState({ step: 2 }), 2000);
    setTimeout(() => this.setState({ step: 3 }), 3000);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <Section border={{ horizontal: "*", vertical: "*" }} align="center">
        My {chalk.blue("New")} {chalk.magenta("ReactCLI App")} 🚀
        <Section horizontal>
          <Section align="center">
            {this.state.step >= 1 ? chalk.green("✔︎") : "◯"} Step 1<br />
            {this.state.step >= 2 ? chalk.green("✔︎") : "◯"} Step 2<br />
            {this.state.step >= 3 ? chalk.green("✔︎") : "◯"} Step 3
          </Section>
          <Section border={{ horizontal: "-", vertical: "|" }} align="center">
            Number of steps done:{" "}
            {chalk.bold.magenta(this.state.step.toString())}
          </Section>
        </Section>
      </Section>
    );
  }
}

ReactCLI(<MyReactCLIApp />);

note: this example uses the “@babel/preset-env”, “@babel/preset-react” babel presets, and “@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties” plugin

Getting started

yarn

yarn add react react-cli-renderer

npm

npm install --save react react-cli-renderer

note: You can use react-cli-renderer without babel, but you’ll most likely want to write components using JSX.

Compatibility with ink components

ink components do not work out-of-the-box with react-cli. However, if you’re interested in re-using existing ink components, check out ink-on-reactcli for more information.

About

ReactCLI is analogous to ReactDOM or ReactNative. It just renders any updates dictated by React and the React reconciler to the command line. This means that you get all of the core features of React for free, like stateful components, context, refs, etc - in addition to being able to use third party libraries for things like state management. It also provides a couple core components that are useful for building out command line interfaces.

Usage

Components

ReactCLI provides two components for building command line interfaces.

• Section
  A new section is denoted by Section. A section can either be vertical, or horizontal. The children of a section can be a mix of text, or more sections. A section can also align text left, right, or center.

  <Section horizontal>
    <Section>Column 1</Section>
    <Section>Column 2</Section>
  </Section>
  

• break
  Break components allow you to define columns and/or rows within a section (as opposed to using nested sections).

  <Section>
    Row 1<br />
    Row 2
  </Section>
  

Built with ReactCLI

if you’re using ReactCLI and want to add your project to this list, feel free to submit a PR!

• startd

Contributions welcome!

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