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A simple [ClojureScript](http://github.com/clojure/clojurescript) interface to [React](http://facebook.github.io/react/).
Reagent provides a way to write efficient React components using (almost) nothing but plain ClojureScript functions.
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### Usage
To create a new Reagent project using [Leiningen](http://leiningen.org/) template simply run:
lein new reagent myproject
If you wish to only create the assets for ClojureScript without a Clojure backend then do the following instead:
lein new reagent-frontend myproject
This will setup a new Reagent project with some reasonable defaults, see here for more [details](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent-template).
To use Reagent in an existing project you add this to your dependencies in `project.clj`:
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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.