@particle-academy/fancy-inertia
v0.9.6
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Inertia.js integration for the fancy UI set — app-shell providers, SSR helpers, useFancyForm() bridge, schema-driven page rendering.
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@particle-academy/fancy-inertia
Inertia.js integration for the fancy UI set. Bridges the friction between the fancy packages (react-fancy, fancy-echarts, fancy-screens, …) and any Inertia-powered app: app-shell providers, SSR-safe boundaries, a useForm bridge, and schema-driven page rendering.
Not Laravel-only. This package has zero Laravel/PHP runtime dependencies — Inertia is just a router that mounts React components, so it works with any Inertia server adapter (Laravel, Rails, Adonis, …). The Laravel-flavoured pieces — deduping the head against
fancy-seo's Blade helper, and running SSR viaphp artisan inertia:start-ssr— are optional integrations, not requirements.
Why this exists
Inertia is "just" a router that mounts React components, so individual fancy components work inside Inertia pages without changes. But the runtime layers — toast queue, modal portal, screen registry, echarts module registry — are app-shell concerns that live ABOVE the Inertia outlet, not inside individual pages. fancy-inertia is that bridge.
Installation
npm install @particle-academy/fancy-inertiaPeer dependencies:
react >= 18,react-dom >= 18@inertiajs/react >= 1@particle-academy/react-fancy >= 3—<FancyAppRoot>mountsToast.Provider@particle-academy/fancy-screens >= 0.4(optional) —<InertiaSchemaScreen>and thewithScreensflag@particle-academy/fancy-echarts >= 3(optional) — thewithEChartsflag
Quick start
Wire <FancyAppRoot> into your Inertia app entry once. It mounts Toast.Provider, Screen.System, and registers echarts modules:
// resources/js/app.tsx
import { createInertiaApp } from "@inertiajs/react";
import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client";
import { FancyAppRoot } from "@particle-academy/fancy-inertia";
createInertiaApp({
resolve: (name) => import(`./Pages/${name}.tsx`),
setup({ App, props, el }) {
createRoot(el).render(
<FancyAppRoot>
<App {...props} />
</FancyAppRoot>,
);
},
});Every page below now has Toast / Screen.System / echarts registered.
What's inside
| Export | Solves |
|--------|--------|
| <FancyAppRoot> | App-shell providers in one wrapper — Toast, Screen.System, echarts module registration |
| <FancyClientOnly> | Skip-SSR boundary for components that touch window (echarts, fancy-3d, IntersectionObserver) |
| setupFancyApp() | Client mount that auto-picks hydrateRoot vs createRoot — flip Inertia SSR on/off with no code change (SSR.md) |
| createFancyServer() /server | The SSR entry (ssr.tsx) — renders pages in the same Fancy provider tree the client hydrates |
| <Seo> + JSON-LD builders /seo | Terse per-page SEO over Inertia <Head> — title/description/canonical/OG/Twitter + application/ld+json in one component (SEO.md) |
| useAppUpdate() + <AppUpdateAlert> | Detect a redeploy (new build) while the page is open and prompt to refresh — zero-config via Inertia's asset version; customizable alert + refresh action (AppUpdate.md) |
| useFancyForm() | Inertia useForm() wrapper with a field(name) helper that drops directly into react-fancy's <Input>, <Select>, <Switch>, etc. |
| registerFancyComponents() | Pre-registers a curated component whitelist for fancy-screens schema mode |
| <InertiaSchemaScreen> | One-liner page that renders <Screen schema={page.props.schema} /> — turns your server controller into the source of truth for an entire page layout |
| <FancyPageTransition> | Zero-dependency enter/exit page crossfade keyed on the Inertia page — fade / slide / scale / blur / none |
| <FancyTransitionProvider> + useFancyTransition() | Holds + persists the active transition (localStorage) so a live switcher can change how every navigation animates |
| usePwaUpdate() / useOfflineGuard() / <FancyInertiaPwa> /pwa | The Inertia ⇄ PWA adapter — the synergistic parts of making an Inertia app a PWA (see below) |
See docs/USAGE.md for full examples and docs/Recipes.md for end-to-end patterns.
PWA adapter (/pwa)
The bits where a PWA mixes with Inertia's grain — kept out of the core (and out of @particle-academy/fancy-pwa's framework-agnostic core) because they bridge the two. @particle-academy/fancy-pwa is an optional peer; only the service-worker half uses it.
import { FancyInertiaPwa } from "@particle-academy/fancy-inertia/pwa";
// One mount near your root — defaults are sensible.
<FancyInertiaPwa />usePwaUpdate()— one "new version available" signal from BOTH an Inertia redeploy (asset-version 409, zero-config) AND a waiting service worker.refresh()activates the waiting SW (skip-waiting → reload with the fresh shell), else a plain reload — so Inertia's version reload and the SW update never fight.useOfflineGuard()— offline-aware navigation viarouter.on('before'): defers a GET visit attempted while offline (which would fire a doomed XHR and fail silently) and auto-replays it on reconnect. No service worker, no caching — connectivity awareness, not offline operation, so there's no staleness or navigation-hijacking. Pure Inertia.<FancyInertiaPwa>— wires both + renders default chrome (update prompt + "you're offline" notice); every piece is opt-out via props.
Deliberately not here: caching page responses / a service worker that intercepts navigations — that fights Inertia's server-driven model (stale CSRF, stale content). Reach for that only as a separate, carefully-scoped module on read-only routes.
Page transitions
Animate Inertia navigations with a controlled, CSS-driven crossfade — no
framer-motion, no peer dependency. Mount <FancyPageTransition> inside your
persistent layout, around the page body (not the whole tree) so the nav and
footer stay put while only the page content animates:
import { FancyPageTransition } from "@particle-academy/fancy-inertia";
import { usePage } from "@inertiajs/react";
function Layout({ children }) {
const { url } = usePage();
return (
<div>
<header>…</header>
<main>
<FancyPageTransition pageKey={url}>{children}</FancyPageTransition>
</main>
</div>
);
}It snapshots the outgoing page (preserved by key — no remount flash), animates
it out while the incoming page animates in, and respects
prefers-reduced-motion. Pass a fixed transition="slide" (or fade / scale
/ blur / none), or let users pick one live:
import {
FancyTransitionProvider, useFancyTransition,
FANCY_TRANSITIONS, FANCY_TRANSITION_LABELS,
} from "@particle-academy/fancy-inertia";
// Wrap <App/> once:
<FancyTransitionProvider defaultTransition="fade"><App/></FancyTransitionProvider>
// A switcher anywhere — choice persists to localStorage and re-scopes every nav:
function TransitionPicker() {
const { transition, setTransition, transitions } = useFancyTransition();
return (
<select value={transition} onChange={(e) => setTransition(e.target.value)}>
{transitions.map((t) => <option key={t} value={t}>{FANCY_TRANSITION_LABELS[t]}</option>)}
</select>
);
}When a <FancyTransitionProvider> is present, <FancyPageTransition> reads the
active choice from it automatically — omit the transition prop.
The schema-driven Inertia pattern
The most powerful integration — agent-emitted JSON UI rendered through Inertia:
// PHP — controller
return Inertia::render('AgentScreen', [
'schema' => app(AgentService::class)->buildPageFor($user),
]);// React — page component
import { InertiaSchemaScreen } from "@particle-academy/fancy-inertia";
export default () => <InertiaSchemaScreen />;Combined with Inertia's partial reloads, the server can swap the schema without remounting the page — components diff in place. This is the LLM-friendly server → client → fancy pipeline that no other React UI kit ships out of the box.
State persistence across navigation
fancy-screens 0.4+ uses Zustand for screen state, and Zustand stores survive Inertia navigation (they're module-scope JS objects, not React state). For full-page-refresh persistence, use Zustand's persist middleware directly:
import { create } from "zustand";
import { persist } from "zustand/middleware";
export const useUserStore = create(
persist<UserState>(
(set) => ({ name: "", setName: (n) => set({ name: n }) }),
{ name: "user-storage" },
),
);fancy-inertia 0.1.x shipped a usePersistFancyState hook for the old Port system; that hook is removed in 0.2.x — see docs/Migration.md.
Documentation
| Topic | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| USAGE.md | Full reference for every export with examples |
| Recipes.md | End-to-end patterns: forms, schema-driven pages |
| SSR.md | Turning SSR on (createFancyServer + setupFancyApp) + the per-package SSR-safety matrix |
| SEO.md | Per-page SEO — <Seo> + JSON-LD builders, pairing with the fancy-seo server baseline |
| AppUpdate.md | "New version available — refresh" detection: useAppUpdate + <AppUpdateAlert> |
| Migration.md | 0.1.x → 0.2.x: drop usePersistFancyState; optional peers (fancy-screens/fancy-echarts) stay lazy as of 0.2.1 |
License
MIT
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