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This is all you need to do if you want the standard version of React. If you want to use your own build of React (or React from a CDN), you have to use `:exclusions` variant of the dependency, and also provide `react` and `react-dom` namespaces (by creating `.cljs` files with just `ns` form, or by adding your own `:foreign-libs` entries). [reagent "0.x.x" :exclusions [cljsjs/react cljsjs/react-dom]] ## Examples Reagent uses [Hiccup-like](https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup) markup instead of React's sort-of html. It looks like this: ```clj (defn some-component [] [:div [:h3 "I am a component!"] [:p.someclass "I have " [:strong "bold"] [:span {:style {:color "red"}} " and red"] " text."]]) ``` Reagent extends standard Hiccup in one way: it is possible to "squeeze" elements together by using a `>` character. ```clj [:div [:p [:b "Nested Element"]]] ``` can be written as: ```clj [:div>p>b "Nested Element"] ``` > **Since version 0.8:** The `:class` attribute also supports collections of classes, and nil values are removed: > > ```clj > [:div {:class ["a-class" (when active? "active") "b-class"]}] > ``` You can use one component inside another: ```clj (defn calling-component [] [:div "Parent component" [some-component]]) ``` And pass properties from one component to another: ```clj (defn child [name] [:p "Hi, I am " name]) (defn childcaller [] [child "Foo Bar"]) ``` You mount the component into the DOM like this: ```clj (defn mountit [] (rd/render [childcaller] (.-body js/document))) ``` assuming we have imported Reagent like this: ```clj (ns example (:require [reagent.core :as r] [reagent.dom :as rd])) ``` State is handled using Reagent's version of `atom`, like this: ```clj (defonce click-count (r/atom 0)) (defn state-ful-with-atom [] [:div {:on-click #(swap! click-count inc)} "I have been clicked " @click-count " times."]) ``` Any component that dereferences a `reagent.core/atom` will be automatically re-rendered. If you want do some setting up when the component is first created, the component function can return a new function that will be called to do the actual rendering: ```clj (defn timer-component [] (let [seconds-elapsed (r/atom 0)] (fn [] (js/setTimeout #(swap! seconds-elapsed inc) 1000) [:div "Seconds Elapsed: " @seconds-elapsed]))) ``` This way you can avoid using React's lifecycle callbacks like `getInitialState` and `componentWillMount` most of the time. But you can still use them if you want to, either using `reagent.core/create-class` or by attaching meta-data to a component function: ```clj (defonce my-html (r/atom "")) (defn plain-component [] [:p "My html is " @my-html]) (def component-with-callback (with-meta plain-component {:component-did-mount (fn [this] (reset! my-html (.-innerHTML (reagent/dom-node this))))})) ``` See the examples directory for more examples. ## Performance React is pretty darn fast, and so is Reagent. It should even be faster than plain old javascript React a lot of the time, since ClojureScript allows us to skip a lot of unnecessary rendering (through judicious use of React's `shouldComponentUpdate`). The ClojureScript overhead is kept down, thanks to lots of caching. Code size is a little bigger than React.js, but still quite small. The todomvc example clocks in at roughly 79K gzipped, using advanced compilation. ## About The idea and some of the code for making components atom-like comes from [pump](https://github.com/piranha/pump). The reactive-atom idea (and some code) comes from [reflex](https://github.com/lynaghk/reflex). The license is MIT.