How could I write plain React code in scala (without wrappers like scalajs-react or slinky)?

[gatisnolv]

Hi, I was curious about trying to write 'straight up' React code in scala (apart from scalajs-react and slinky) and was looking to see if React itself could be found under the Distribution. I was able to find it, but only with some luck as I would have expected it to be named either 'react' or 'react-js' there keeping with the naming convention used there.

So why is it named 'react-is' and instead of 'react-js' ?

https://github.com/ScalablyTyped/Distribution/tree/master/r/react-is

P.S. I would have asked the question under the Distribution repo, but does not appear to have an 'Issues' tab.

[oyvindberg]

Hey there.

the npm package is called react, not react-js, so you can find it at https://github.com/ScalablyTyped/Distribution/tree/master/r/react.

You absolutely can do it, but it does require some boilerplate. Some years back I wrote a thin DSL on top of bare react, utilizing the types from typescript (as they were). You can find that boilerplate in dsl.scala in this commit

[gatisnolv]

Hey, thanks for clarifying it for me as well as the helpful pointers.

In was partly confused by the alpha-numerical ordering of directories in GitHub where the 'react' directory comes after all of the 'react-something' directories and thus not seeing it due to the web ui's 1000 item limit. I also realize I made the mistake of not thoroughly looking around https://github.com/ScalablyTyped/Distribution/tree/master/r/react-is which would have made it clear this was not react itself, which I could have realized by looking at what the npm link points to.

I took the liberty of modifying the issue title to be more helpful for anyone looking in this direction.