I have the following scenario. I am writing a complex component that is using three-js:
The component manages complex mouse interactions and updates other elements in the DOM using two-ways data binding: variables, JSON objects, mouse interactions, etc.
I start using the component in few part of my application but I needed to substantially modified the threed-viewer.html so I made a copy of the whole component ending up having duplicates that are hard to maintain.
All flavours of the component share 80% of the javascript code and bindings but they have substantial UI differences. So I had the though of create different 3 basic component (minimal javascript code) that I can inject into the threed-viewer.html using a selector and a variable to decide which template to load:
this does not compile as the html files have all the variables and bindings from the original components but they are not present in the typescript files.
Another solution could be to have a single html managed via ngIf but it will result in a long, messy, difficult to manage file. Is this the only option I have in Angular. Any other idea?
Thank you.
You can have a shared service and then add three different components but js code won't be duplicated as it will be in the service.
Use two way bindings in all 3 components using the service variables, functions and objects
I have did long time ago - the pages and article editor. Two different templates, same code.
I used articles component as "parent", and extended it to news editor.
Looks like this:
#Component({template: 'blah blah blah'}) export class parent {}
#Component({template: 'blah2 blah2 blah2'}) export class child extends parent {}
Hopefully this is the solution you were looking for.
Two different components, two templates, one code.
Of course, you can have the "parent" abstract class for both where you can save all methods you need.
It's OOP baby ;)
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I am just starting to learn HTML. I am trying to understand if it is possible to only have one element in the mainpage that can be use on every other pages instead of rewriting it onto every other single html file?
Thank you.
What you are talking about is called a component. A component is a reusable piece of small elements that you can use anywhere in your html. You can do it in two ways:
Server side: Make a function where you store that specific component.
Dynamic template: Use something like VueJS,ReactJS or AngulerJS to create and use a component where ever you like it. You can also use JS too. But I suggest VueJS,ReactJS or AngulerJS.
I have five variant my app and all of this have same functionality. But HTML templates are different.
Now i have five almost same *.ts files. For optimize, i have one of approach - make a logic to services, and after provide it to component, but i don't like it.
Can you help me solve this problem?
I don't want make component dynamically
I don't want use a lot of *ngIf in template (for each variant)
I wanna 1 *.component.ts and 5 *.<%variant%>.component.html and 5 *.<%variant%>.component.scss
(and i will choose one of <%variant%> in environment or like UseClass with Services)
I wanna IDE (Webstorm) support - binding, link html variables with *.ts
Yes, I know what people ask this question before and Templates in Angular are compiled into JavaScript by the AOT, and this impossible. But maybe somebody solve it from custom plugin, webpack config or something else
For fast searching elements by Selenium, I think it must be a simple way to set some attributes to html-elements, for example: transform React Component Key to data-attribute (if it is possible).
Of course I can writing id or data-attributes to my span, div and whatever in my components, but I can't do it with components of 3d-party libraries - this components may haven't props like "id", and I will have to wrap this components and then find they by tag or class...
Or maybe is plugin for webpack to set data-attributes to elements with component's names.
However, how you find elements in your react app render?
I think it's not a good idea find elements by class or tags
key transform like this:
<MyComponent key="SuperComponent" />
...
<div data-attr="SuperComponent">...</div>
or autoset attributes of component name like this:
<MySuperComponent />
...
<div data-attr="MySuperComponent">...</div>
From "Test Automation through Selenium" perspective it hardly matters if the HTML consists of id or data-attributes. While working with Selenium tests are written with the help of any effective <tag> and the associated attributes. However there is a preferred list of Locator Strategies as follows:
How to find elements in react app render?
The AUT (Application Under Test) being ReactJS based of-coarse the element will be having dynamic attributes. Locator Strategies can also be dynamic. You can find an example usage of Dynamic Locator Strategies in the discussion How to locate a button with a dynamicID
Finally, while Test Automation the fast moving WebDriver instance will be needed to be synchronized with the lagging browser. You can find a relevant discussion in Do we have any generic funtion to check if page has completely loaded in Selenium
I am running a springboot application with Thymeleaf and reactJS. All the HTML text are read from message.properties by using th:text in the pages, but when I have th:text in reactJS HTML block, reactJS seems angry about it.
render() {
return (
<input type="text" th:text="#{home.welcome}">
)
}
The error is:
Namespace tags are not supported. ReactJSX is not XML.
Is there a walkaround besides using dangerouslySetInnerHTML?
Thank you!
There is no sane workaround.
You are getting this error because Thymeleaf outputs XML, and JSX parsers do not parse XML.
You did this because JSX looks very, very similar to XML. But they are very, very different, and even if you somehow hacked Thymeleaf to strip namespaced attributes and managed to get a component to render, it would be merely a fleeting moment of duct-taped-together, jury-rigged code that will fall apart under further use.
This is a really, really bad idea because JSX is Javascript. You are generating Javascript on the fly. Just to name a few reasons this will not work in the long term:
This makes your components difficult if not impossible to test.
Reasoning about application state will be a nightmare as you will struggle to figure out if the source of a certain state is coming from Thymeleaf or JS.
Your application will completely grind to a halt if Thymeleaf outputs bad JS.
These problems will all get worse with time (Thyme?) as as developers abuse the ease with which they can render server-side data to the client-side, leading to an insane application architecture.
Do not do this. Just use Thymeleaf, or just use React.
Sample Alternative: I primarily work on a React application backed by a Java backend. So I understand how someone could stumble upon this hybrid and think it might be a good idea. You are likely already using Thymeleaf and are trying to figure out how you can avoid rewriting your servlets but still get the power of React.
We were in a similar boat two years ago, except with an aging JSP frontend, but the difference is negligible. What we did (and it works well) is use a JSP page to bootstrap the entire React application. There is now one JSP page that we render to the user. This JSP page outputs JSON into a single <script> tag that contains some initial startup data that we would otherwise have to fetch immediately. This contains resources, properties, and just plain data.
We then output another <script> that points to the location of a compiled JS module containing the entire standalone React application. This application loads the JSON data once when it starts up and then makes backend calls for the rest. In some places, we have to use JSP for these, which is less than ideal but still better than your solution. What we do is have the JSP pages output a single attribute containing JSON. In this way (and with some careful pruning by our XHR library) we get a poor man's data interchange layer built atop a JSP framework we don't have time to change.
It is definitely not ideal, but it works well and we have benefited vastly from the many advantages of React. When we do have issues with this peculiar implementation, they are easy to isolate and resolve.
It is possible wrap ReactJS apps in Thymeleaf. Think if you want a static persistent part (like some links, or even just displayed data), you could use Thymeleaf. If you have a complicated part (something that requires DOM repaints, shared data, updates from UI/Sockets/whatever), you could use React.
If you need to pass state you could use Redux/other methods.
You could have your backend send data via a rest API to the React part and just render your simple parts as fragments or as whole chunks of plain HTML using Thymeleaf.
Remember, Thymeleaf is really just HTML. React is virtual DOM that renders as HTML. It's actually fairly easy to migrate one to the other. So you could write anything "Static" or that does not respond much to UI, in Thymeleaf/HTML. You could also just render those parts in React too, but without State.
Thymeleaf 3 allows you to render variables from your Java to a separate JS file. So that is also an option to pass into JSX
function showCode() {
var code = /*[[${code}]]*/ '12345';
document.getElementById('code').innerHTML = code;
}
Now you can use data- prefix attributes (ex. data-th-text="${message}").
https://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/tutorials/3.0/usingthymeleaf.html#support-for-html5-friendly-attribute-and-element-names
If i want to have a common piece of UI across multiple pages, such as a menu, what is the recommended way to do this?
It would contain both template code and a back-end controller (similar to "snippets" in the LiftWeb framework).
I am aware that there is a menu module for Play, but I'm more interested in how this would be achieved in general.
There are two ways to include common view code into the Play Framework.
You can use the #{include} tag or the #{extends} tag.
The extends tag, as the name suggests, extends from a parent view. The extends tag is used by default in the skeleton code set up by Play when you create a new application. It extends the main.html. You add your code here.
The includes tag, allows you to inject a common piece of view code into your templates at a specified point. This works in much the same was a php include/require, or jsp includes work.
The problem will come when your template code also requires data or logic from the model (via the controller). If this is the case, then you will need to use the #Before or #With notation in your controller to ensure that the common piece of controller code is executed each time. You can add any data to the renderArgs list, so that it is available for use within the view.
A simple example of using renderArgs would be.
#Before
private static void commonData() {
// do your logic here
renderArgs.put("menu", menu);
renderArgs.put("selected", selectedMenuItem);
}
the values you have put into renderArgs (menu and selected in the example) will be available just in the same way as if you passed them into the render method.