mvc-react/components

Framework for developing MVC-based React components. It is based on @mvc-react/mvc (see more here).

Installation

npm install --save @mvc-react/components

Summary

This package allows you to utilize MVC-patterned components (ModeledComponents). The components take in a single prop model which models what the UI displays and how the user interacts with it. An additional children prop is available for container components (ModeledContainerComponent).

Benefits

When properly implemented, this framework:

• Makes your components intuitive
• Allows for greater view flexibility
• Naturally decouples core/functional component logic from the component view logic, making it simpler to test
• Confers the benefits of other packages within the @mvc-react ecosystem when integrated with them.

💡 Tips:

• Try to make sure your component's Model contains all the properties and functionality essential to the component
• Try to move all Model logic away from your component and into the model so that there is a one-to-one correspondance between the ModelView and what is rendered on your component; and (if applicable) between the Model's ModelInteractions and the events fired by the component

Documentation

ModeledVoidComponent

Encapsulates a functional react component which is patterned after a Model, and has no children.

Example 1:

const Book: ModeledVoidComponent<BookModel> = function ({ model }) {
	const { title, author, cover } = model.modelView;

	return (
		<div className="book">
			<img className="book-cover" src={cover.src} alt={cover.alt} />
			<span className="book-title">{title}</span>
			<span className="author">{author}</span>
		</div>
	);
};

Example 2:

const BookRepository = function({ model }) {
   const { bookModels } = model.modelView;
   const { interact } = model.interact;

   return (
      <>
         <div className='books-container'>
            <ComponentList // This component is available out-of-the-box
               model={newReadonlyModel({
                  Component: Book,
                  componentModels: bookModels,
               })}
            />
         </div>
         <button onClick={interact({"Refresh Models"})}>Refresh</button>
      </>
   );
} as ModeledVoidComponent<BookRepositoryModel>

ModeledContainerComponent

Encapsulates a functional react component which is patterned after a Model, and has children.

Example 3:

const SiteSection = function ({ model, children }) {
	const { sectionTitle } = model.modelView;

	return (
		<section className="site-section">
			<h2 className="section-title">{sectionTitle}</h2>
			{children}
		</section>
	);
} as ModeledContainerComponent<SiteSectionModel>;

Utility components

The package also comes with a couple of general purpose ModeledComponents which fulfil common tasks like listing and placeholdering.

ComponentList

Component that maps a list of models to their respective components. (see Example 2).

ModelView properties

• componentModels - List of models, each to be mapped to a Component.
• Component - The ModeledComponent each component model will be mapped to.

ComponentPlaceholder

Component that renders an alternative component in place of a ModeledComponent whose model is not yet defined.

ModelView properties

• placeholderedComponentModel - Model of placeholdered component.
• PlaceholderedComponent - Component the placeholdered model will be mapped to when defined.
• PlaceholderComponent - Placeholder component

Example 4:

const BookPlaceholder = function ({ model }) {
	const { bookModel } = model.modelView;

	return (
		<ComponentPlaceholder
			model={newReadonlyModel({
				placeholderedComponentModel: bookModel,
				PlaceholderedComponent: Book,
				PlaceholderComponent: () => <BookSkeleton />,
			})}
		/>
	);
} as ModeledVoidComponent<BookModel>;

ConditionalComponent

Component that renders different components depending on a provided condition.

ModelView properties

• condition - Value that determines which component to render.
• components - A map pairing a condition to its respective component.
• FallbackComponent - Component to render when provided condition does not map to any component, or is invalid.

Example 5:

const BookRepository = function({ model }) {
   const { bookModels, condition } = model.modelView;
   const { interact } = model.interact;

   const SuccessComponent = () => (
      <div className='books-container'>
         <ComponentList
            model={
               modelView: {
                  componentModels: bookModels,
                  Component: Book,
               }
            }
        />
      </div>
   );

   return (
      <>
         <ConditionalComponent
            model={newReadonlyModel({
               condition: condition,
               components: new Map([
                  ["success", SuccessComponent],
                  ["pending", () => <PendingSkeleton />],
                  ["failed", () => <FailedSkeleton />]
               ]),
               FallbackComponent: () => <></>,
            })}
         />
         <button onClick={interact({"Refresh Models"})}>Refresh</button>
      </>
  );
} as ModeledVoidComponent<BookRepositoryModel>

See Related

• @mvc-react/mvc
• @mvc-react/stateful