Use dotnetify outside of react components?

[dannief]

All examples that I have seen, demonstrate using dotnetify directly inside react component's getIntialState() function, and it is required to pass the current instance of the component: dotnetify.react.connect(vmName, component)

Is it possible to use dotnetify outside of a react component, so that it may be used with any client-side framework or inside an external service for example? Can we get an instance of a vm and dispatch changes and subscribe to server changes outside of react? Or would it just make sense to use signalR directly in that case?

[dsuryd]

Yes, it's possible. The API is customized for React, but you can hack it a bit to this:

var myState = {};
dotnetify.react.connect("MyVM", { props: {}}, () => myState, newState => Object.assign(myState, newState) );

[dannief]

OK. Thanks.

[dsuryd]

Since v2.0.6-beta, there's a new wrapper API:

let myState = {};
this.vm = dotnetify.connect("MyVM", { 
      getState: () => myState,
      setState: newState => Object.assign(myState, newState)
});

...
this.vm.dispatch({someProp: someValue});