Name of the package is tbd (straw: `react-html`). It's a new package
separate from `react-dom` though and can be used as a standalone package
- e.g. also from a React Native app.
```js
import {renderToMarkup} from '...';
const html = await renderToMarkup(<Component />);
```
The idea is that this is a helper for rendering HTML that is not
intended to be hydrated. It's primarily intended to support a subset of
HTML that can be used as embedding and not served as HTML documents from
HTTP. For example as e-mails or in RSS/Atom feeds or other
distributions. It's a successor to `renderToStaticMarkup`.
A few differences:
- This doesn't support "Client Components". It can only use the Server
Components subset. No useEffect, no useState etc. since it will never be
hydrated. Use of those are errors.
- You also can't pass Client References so you can't use components
marked with `"use client"`.
- Unlike `renderToStaticMarkup` this does support async so you can
suspend and use data from these components.
- Unlike `renderToReadableStream` this does not support streaming or
Suspense boundaries and any error rejects the promise. Since there's no
feasible way to "client render" or patch up the document.
- Form Actions are not supported since in an embedded environment
there's no place to post back to across versions. You can render plain
forms with fixed URLs though.
- You can't use any resource preloading like `preload()` from
`react-dom`.
## Implementation
This first version in this PR only supports Server Components since
that's the thing that doesn't have an existing API. Might add a Client
Components version later that errors.
We don't want to maintain a completely separate implementation for this
use case so this uses the `dom-legacy` build dimension to wire up a
build that encapsulates a Flight Server -> Flight Client -> Fizz stream
to render Server Components that then get SSR:ed.
There's no problem to use a Flight Client in a Server Component
environment since it's already supported for Server-to-Server. Both of
these use a bundler config that just errors for Client References though
since we don't need any bundling integration and this is just a
standalone package.
Running Fizz in a Server Component environment is a problem though
because it depends on "react" and it needs the client version.
Therefore, for this build we embed the client version of "react" shared
internals into the build. It doesn't need anything to be able to use
those APIs since you can't call the client APIs anyway.
One unfortunate thing though is that since Flight currently needs to go
to binary and back, we need TextEncoder/TextDecoder to be available but
this shouldn't really be necessary. Also since we use the legacy stream
config, large strings that use byteLengthOfChunk errors atm. This needs
to be fixed before shipping. I'm not sure what would be the best
layering though that isn't unnecessarily burdensome to maintain. Maybe
some kind of pass-through protocol that would also be useful in general
- e.g. when Fizz and Flight are in the same process.
---------
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Silbermann <silbermann.sebastian@gmail.com>
React ·

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
- Declarative: React makes it painless to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render just the right components when your data changes. Declarative views make your code more predictable, simpler to understand, and easier to debug.
- Component-Based: Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs. Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data through your app and keep the state out of the DOM.
- Learn Once, Write Anywhere: We don't make assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, so you can develop new features in React without rewriting existing code. React can also render on the server using Node and power mobile apps using React Native.
Learn how to use React in your project.
Installation
React has been designed for gradual adoption from the start, and you can use as little or as much React as you need:
- Use Quick Start to get a taste of React.
- Add React to an Existing Project to use as little or as much React as you need.
- Create a New React App if you're looking for a powerful JavaScript toolchain.
Documentation
You can find the React documentation on the website.
Check out the Getting Started page for a quick overview.
The documentation is divided into several sections:
- Quick Start
- Tutorial
- Thinking in React
- Installation
- Describing the UI
- Adding Interactivity
- Managing State
- Advanced Guides
- API Reference
- Where to Get Support
- Contributing Guide
You can improve it by sending pull requests to this repository.
Examples
We have several examples on the website. Here is the first one to get you started:
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
function HelloMessage({ name }) {
return <div>Hello {name}</div>;
}
const root = createRoot(document.getElementById('container'));
root.render(<HelloMessage name="Taylor" />);
This example will render "Hello Taylor" into a container on the page.
You'll notice that we used an HTML-like syntax; we call it JSX. JSX is not required to use React, but it makes code more readable, and writing it feels like writing HTML.
Contributing
The main purpose of this repository is to continue evolving React core, making it faster and easier to use. Development of React happens in the open on GitHub, and we are grateful to the community for contributing bugfixes and improvements. Read below to learn how you can take part in improving React.
Code of Conduct
Facebook has adopted a Code of Conduct that we expect project participants to adhere to. Please read the full text so that you can understand what actions will and will not be tolerated.
Contributing Guide
Read our contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to React.
Good First Issues
To help you get your feet wet and get you familiar with our contribution process, we have a list of good first issues that contain bugs that have a relatively limited scope. This is a great place to get started.
License
React is MIT licensed.