- enables multiple rendering areas (like angular routier-outlet)
- works with
react
andreact-native
- ability to jump to any route by switching config
- All JSON based app configuration (easier to change workflows)
- Create the initial page layout config, which is also called
layoutConfig
orappConfig
. Have a look at the examples folderlayout
files to figure out how to write a layoutConfig. At minimal it needs to have an appConfig JSON to be declared and exported out of that file. A snippet is given below, but it is complex, running the examples inexamples
folde would be much better to get started. Trust me :-)
// *****************************************************
// import all your available components and export from one `componentsSet` object
// All component which will be rendered
// *****************************************************
import { About } from "../../src/components/About";
import { Comp5 } from "../../src/components/Comp5";
import { Home } from "../../src/components/Home";
export const componentsSet = {
Comp5,
Home,
About,
};
// *****************************************************
// declare all the layout changes that your application
// would have, and declare them as different `routes` insed a `routes` object which is exported.
// *****************************************************
export const routes = {};
routes.routeOne = {
0: {
0: {
// layout: null // evict the earlier 1st column, other way is to hide it
layout: {
colConfig: {
// colSize: 0, // *** change the colSize
colStyle: { display: "none" } // *** hide the 1st column
}
}
}
}
};
routes.routeTwo = {
0: {
0: {
// layout: null // evict the earlier 1st column, other way is to hide it
layout: {
colConfig: {
// colSize: 0, // *** change the colSize
colStyle: { display: "block" } // *** hide the 1st column
}
}
},
1: {
layout: {
colConfig: {
colSize: 3 // *** change the colSize
},
1: {
// *** below we are adding a new row(this will replace current layout config values), and this will have 2 columns
0: {
// col no
colSize: 10,
idx: "About",
label: "comp5 >> changed at runtime 1"
},
1: {
// col no
colSize: 10,
idx: "About",
label: "comp5 >> changed at runtime 2"
}
}
}
}
}
};
// *************************************************
// exported `appConfig` object - represents initial Layout configuration
// *************************************************
export const appConfig = {
componentsSet,
links: {
"/": {
style: styles.navItem,
linkStyle: styles.tabName,
linkText: "Home"
},
"/about": {
style: styles.navItem,
linkStyle: styles.tabName,
linkText: "Feed"
},
"/contact": {
style: styles.navItem,
linkStyle: styles.tabName,
linkText: "Messages"
}
},
layout: {
colConfig: {
colSize: 1
},
// row no
0: {
rowConfig: {
rowSize: 1,
rowStyle: { height: "100vh" }
},
// col no
0: {
layout: {
colConfig: {
colSize: 2
},
0: {
// row no
rowConfig: {
rowSize: 1,
rowStyle: { height: "5vh" }
},
0: {
// col no
colSize: 1,
idx: "Home",
label: "home",
colStyle: { borderWidth: 4 }
}
},
1: {
// row no
rowConfig: {
rowSize: 1,
rowStyle: { height: "90vh" }
},
0: {
// col no
colSize: 1,
idx: "About",
label: "about",
colStyle: { borderWidth: 4 }
},
1: {
// col no
colSize: 1,
idx: "Comp5",
label: "comp5",
colStyle: { borderWidth: 4 }
}
},
2: {
// row no
rowConfig: {
rowSize: 1,
rowStyle: { height: "10vh" }
},
0: {
// col no
colSize: 4,
idx: "RandomPic",
label: "rpic",
colStyle: { borderWidth: 4 }
}
}
}
},
1: {
layout: {
colConfig: {
colSize: 5
},
0: {
// row no
rowConfig: {
rowSize: 1,
rowStyle: { height: "10vh" }
},
0: {
// col no
colSize: 24,
idx: "Comp5",
label: "comp5.11",
schema,
colStyle: { borderWidth: 4 }
}
},
1: {
// row no
rowConfig: {
rowSize: 12,
rowStyle: { height: "10vh" }
},
0: {
// col no
colSize: 1,
idx: "Comp5",
label: "comp5.12",
schema,
colStyle: { borderWidth: 4 }
}
},
2: {
// row no
rowConfig: {
rowSize: 1,
rowStyle: { height: "10vh" }
},
0: {
// col no
colSize: 1,
idx: "Comp5",
label: "comp5.13",
schema,
colStyle: { borderWidth: 4 }
}
}
}
}
}
}
};
Changes to initial screen could be passed by calling setLayoutConfig
and passing it a change/delta JSON, which contains the change that you want to happen to original config (appConfig
).
// expanded (non-dottend notation) route config
routes.routeThree = {
// row no
"1container": {
"11leftNavCol": {
layout: {
colConfig: {
colStyle: { display: "block" },
},
},
// layout: null,
},
// col no
"12bodyCol": {
layout: {
colConfig: {
colSize: 18,
},
"122bodyContentRow": {
bodyContent: {
idx: "Home",
},
},
},
},
},
};
Please note that initial appConfig
can obnly be in expanded format, not in dotted format
Rule 2 - You could not use .
in your keys when you use dotted syntax. e.g. 1.container
as key
is not usable with this method.
// dotted notation config route
routes.routeTwo = {
"1container.11leftNavCol.layout.colConfig.colStyle.display": "none",
"1container.12bodyCol.layout.colConfig.colSize": 11,
"1container.12bodyCol.layout.121bodyHeaderRow.bodyHeader.idx": "ActionComp",
"1container.12bodyCol.layout.122bodyContentRow.bodyContent.idx": "RandomPic",
"1container.12bodyCol.layout.123bodyFooterRow.bodyFooter.idx": "About",
};