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PHP library that renders React components on the server (2016)
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react-php-v8js
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react-php-v8js
PHP library that renders React components on the server
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PHP library that renders React components on the server
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Observed mentions: 2015-03-11 07:58:51 UTC to 2023-02-22 23:22:30 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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8 sources>Wow, the modern PHP community is on fire! I had no idea. I basically rage-quitted PHP years ago, after repeatedly inheriting a series of Wordpress wrecks.
There still are Wordpress wrecks, and will be until the end of time. But there's a lot of good PHP code being written now, it's going through somewhat of a renaissance. Lots of good work being done with Symfony.
>Just curious, how does a PHP application handle server side rendering? By shelling out to a headless browser? What if the content is so personalized that server side caching isn't helpful, is it still viable to SSR a React client?
I haven't done SSR for React with PHP, but this react library [0] runs v8js, so it's not as heavy as a headless browser. The Angular2 team is building SSR for PHP now but hasn't released it. From scanning the GitHub issues it looks like they're ta
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king the same approach (v8js) [1].
[0] https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js
[1] https://github.com/angular/universal/issues/281
Ideally there should be a way to render JavaScript on the server side for views/templates, like React, without having to write your whole backend in JS. In fact I just googled and found something like this in the reactjs commmunity repo: https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js
In Rendering React without browser JavaScriptWhile I'd LOVE WordPress to be run on Node, don't forget FB runs on PHP, and they're investing in React.
https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js
In Building a better WordPressPHP library that renders React components on the server
2 points · Open discussionTheir GraphQL server is written in PHP. They've made the reference implementation (graphql-js) in JS + the server in Express but they're not using that in production.
For server side rendering of the React app, they use https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js (well they probably use a slightly customized version but this is what they open sourced).
In Relay Technical PreviewAsk HN: REST API to Render Isomorphic JS(React)?
Just wondering if someone put already together a Nodejs project that renders templates with React components and that can be consumed from any language through a REST interface.
And perhaps if you don't know, you can tell me your opinion about if you think it could be a good idea.
I'm aware of projects like https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js
or with go-ducktape
https://github.com/olebedev/go-react-example
But maybe keeping all javascript/html/render concerns in a separate Nodejs api could be cleaner. And reusable for any language.
Thoughts ?
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