reagent-nodejs

Isomorphic reagent app with both server and client side rendering.

Note: This code is very alpha, use at your own risk.

Initial rendering happens with reagent on the server side in node, subsequent action render through reagent in the browser.

Prerequisites

• Java 7 or better
• NodeJS - assumes the binary is named node

Quick Start

Starts a web server on port 3000 with reagent rendering on the server side.

export DOCROOT="$(pwd)/target/dev"
infra/lein cljsbuild once dev node
infra/lein nodejs

How It Works

On the server side, reagent-nodejs uses node along with express to server content. There were a couple of shims required to make it work:

• closure requires downloading the nodejs.js bootstrap code from the closure-library
• a copy of react.js needs to be present in the server's root directory
• javascript stubs - window.attachEvent, document.attachEvent, and XMLHttpRequest
• React var needs to be defined with the contents of react library

To Do

• Update to work with advanced mode compilation
• Figure out how Clojure shell out can write to stdout. Currently, infra/lein nodejs doesn't print anything