Improve demo a bit

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Dan Holmsand 2014-01-09 14:37:11 +01:00
parent c0744c7fed
commit 97799ae63c
6 changed files with 114 additions and 52 deletions

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.gitignore vendored
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index.html
site/demo.js
site/democss.css
target
pom.xml
.lein-repl-history

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console.log('Generating page');
var main = demo.genpage();
var ts = '?' + Date.now();
var cssFiles = ['examples/todomvc/todos.css',
'examples/todomvc/todosanim.css',
'examples/simple/example.css',
'site/demo.css'];
var head = ['<head>',
'<meta charset="utf-8">',
'<title>This is Cloact</title>',
'<link rel="stylesheet" href="examples/todomvc/todos.css">',
'<link rel="stylesheet" href="examples/todomvc/todosanim.css">',
'<link rel="stylesheet" href="examples/simple/example.css">',
'<link rel="stylesheet" href="site/demo.css">',
'<title>Cloact: Minimalistic React for ClojureScript</title>',
'<link rel="stylesheet" href="site/democss.css' + ts + '">',
'</head>'].join('\n');
var body = ['<body>',
main,
'<script type="text/javascript" src="site/demo.js"></script>',
'<script type="text/javascript" src="site/demo.js' + ts + '"></script>',
'<script type="text/javascript">',
'setTimeout(demo.mountdemo, 200);',
'</script>',
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console.log('Writing site');
fs.writeFileSync("index.html", html);
fs.writeFileSync("site/demo.js", src);
fs.writeFileSync("site/democss.css",
cssFiles.map(function (x) {
return fs.readFileSync(x);
}).join("\n"));
console.log('Wrote site');

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color: #555;
}
.demo-text > p {
.demo-text > p, .demo-text > ul {
font-family: georgia, serif;
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 27px;

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(def React tmpl/React)
(def is-client tmpl/isClient)
(defn render-component
([comp container]

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[slider {:value bmi :min 10 :max 50 :param :bmi}]]]))
(defn intro []
[:div.demo-text
[:h2 "Introduction to Cloact"]
(let [github {:href "https://github.com/holmsand/cloact"}
clojurescript {:href "https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript"}
react {:href "http://facebook.github.io/react/"}
hiccup {:href "https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup"}]
[:div.demo-text
[:p [:a {:href "https://github.com/holmsand/cloact"} "Cloact"]
" provides a minimalistic interface between "
[:a {:href "https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript"} "ClojureScript"]
" and " [:a {:href "http://facebook.github.io/react/"} "React"]
". It allows you to define efficient React components using nothing but
plain ClojureScript functions, that describe your UI using a " [:a
{:href "https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup"} "Hiccup"] "-like
syntax."]
[:h2 "Introduction to Cloact"]
[:p "A very basic component may look something like this: "]
[demo-component {:comp simple-component
:defs [:simple-component]}]
[:p [:a github "Cloact"] " provides a minimalistic interface
between " [:a clojurescript "ClojureScript"] " and " [:a
react "React"] ". It allows you to define efficient React
components using nothing but plain ClojureScript functions and
data, that describe your UI using a " [:a hiccup "Hiccup"] "-like
syntax."]
[:p "You can build new components using other components as
building blocks. Like this:"]
[demo-component {:comp simple-parent
:defs [:simple-parent]}]
[:p "The goal of Cloact is to make it possible to define
arbitrarily complex UIs using just a couple of basic concepts,
and to be fast enough by default that you rarely have to care
about performance."]
[:p "Data is passed to child components using plain old Clojure
maps. For example, here is a component that shows items in a "
[:code "seq"] ":" ]
[:p "A very basic Cloact component may look something like this: "]
[demo-component {:comp simple-component
:defs [:simple-component]}]
[demo-component {:comp lister-user
:defs [:lister :lister-user]}]
[:p "You can build new components using other components as
building blocks. Like this:"]
[demo-component {:comp simple-parent
:defs [:simple-parent]}]
[:p [:strong "Note: "]
"The " [:code "{:key item}"] " part of the " [:code ":li"] " isn't
really necessary in this simple example, but passing a unique key
for every item in a dynamically generated list of components is
good practice, and helps React to improve performance for large
lists."]])
[:p "Data is passed to child components using plain old Clojure
maps. For example, here is a component that shows items in a "
[:code "seq"] ":" ]
[demo-component {:comp lister-user
:defs [:lister :lister-user]}]
[:p [:strong "Note: "]
"The " [:code "{:key item}"] " part of the " [:code ":li"] "
isnt really necessary in this simple example, but passing a
unique key for every item in a dynamically generated list of
components is good practice, and helps React to improve
performance for large lists."]]))
(defn managing-state []
[:div.demo-text
[:h2 "Managing state in Cloact"]
[:p "The easiest way to manage state in Cloact is to use Cloact's
[:p "The easiest way to manage state in Cloact is to use Cloacts
own version of " [:code "atom"] ". It works exactly like the one in
clojure.core, except that it keeps track of every time it is
deref'ed. Any component that uses an " [:code "atom"]" is automagically
derefed. Any component that uses an " [:code "atom"]" is automagically
re-rendered when its value changes."]
[:p "Let's demonstrate that with a simple example:"]
[:p "Lets demonstrate that with a simple example:"]
[demo-component {:comp counting-component
:defs [:ns :click-count :counting-component]}]
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component. That is easy to do with an " [:code "atom"] " as well."]
[:p "Here is an example of that, where we call "
[:code "setTimeout"] " every time the component is rendered to
[:code "setTimeout"] " every time the component is rendered to
update a counter:"]
[demo-component {:comp timer-component
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[:p "The previous example also uses another feature of Cloact: a component
function can return another function, that is used to do the actual
rendering. It is called with the same arguments as any other
component function. This allows you to perform some setup of newly
created components, without resorting to React's lifecycle
rendering. This allows you to perform some setup of newly
created components, without resorting to Reacts lifecycle
events."]
[:p "By simply passing atoms around you can share state management
between components, like this:"]
[demo-component {:comp shared-state
:defs [:ns :atom-input :shared-state]}]])
:defs [:ns :atom-input :shared-state]}]
[:p [:strong "Note: "] "Component functions (including the ones
returned by other component functions) are called with three
arguments: "]
[:ul
[:li [:code "props"] ": a map passed from a parent" ]
[:li [:code "children"] ": a vector of the children passed to the component"]
[:li [:code "this"] ": the actual React component"]]])
(defn essential-api []
[:div.demo-text
[:h2 "Essential API"]
[:p "Cloact supports most of React's API, but there is really only
[:p "Cloact supports most of Reacts API, but there is really only
one entry-point that is necessary for most applications: "
[:code "cloact.core/render-component"] "."]
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[:div.demo-text
[:h2 "Performance"]
[:p "Something about performance..."]])
[:p "React itself is very fast, and so is Cloact. In fact, Cloact
will be even faster than plain React a lot of the time, thanks to
optimizations made possible by ClojureScript."]
[:p "Mounted components are only re-rendered when their parameters
have changed. The change could come from a derefed "
[:code "atom"] ", the arguments passed to the component (i.e the
”props” map and children) or component state."]
[:p "All of these are checked for changes with a simple "
[:code "identical?"] " which is basically only a pointer
comparison, so the overhead is very low (even if the components of
the props map are compared separately, and "
[:code ":style"] " attributes are handled specially). Even the
built-in React components are handled the same way."]
[:p "All this means that you (hopefully) simply wont have to care
about performance most of the time. Just define your UI however you like
it will be fast enough."]
[:p "There are a couple of situations that you might have to care
about, though. If you give Cloact big " [:code "seq"] "s of
components to render, you might have to supply all of them with a
unique " [:code ":key"] " attribute to speed up rendering. Also note
that anonymous functions are not, in general, equal to each other
even if they represent the same code and closure."]
[:p "But again, in general you should just trust that React and
Cloact will be fast enough. This very page is composed of a single
Cloact component with thousands of child components (every single
parenthesis etc in the code examples is a separate component), and
yet the page can be updated many times every second without taxing
the browser the slightest."]
[:p "Incidentally, this page also uses another React trick: the
entire page is pre-rendered using Node, and "
[:code "cloact/render-component-to-string"] ". When it is loaded
into the browser, React automatically attaches event-handlers to
the already present DOM tree."]])
(defn bmi-demo []
[:div.demo-text
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[:h2 "Complete demo"]
[:p "Cloact comes with a couple of complete examples, with
Leiningen project files and everything. Here's one of them in
Leiningen project files and everything. Heres one of them in
action:"]
[demo-component {:comp simpleexample/simple-example
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[:div.test-output-mini
[runtests/test-output-mini]]
[:div.cloact-demo
[:h1 "Cloact: Simple and fast UI for ClojureScript"]
[:h1 "Cloact: Minimalistic React for ClojureScript"]
[intro]
[managing-state]
[essential-api]
[performance]
[bmi-demo]
[performance]
[test-results]
[complete-simple-demo]
[todomvc-demo]
[github-badge]]])
[todomvc-demo]]
[github-badge]])
(defn ^:export mountdemo []
(cloact/render-component [demo] (.-body js/document)))

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(println "-----------------------------------------")
(reset! test-results (t/run-all-tests))
(println "-----------------------------------------"))
1000)
(if cloact/is-client 1000 0))
(defn test-output []
(let [res @test-results]