This module is a friendly fork of the POC made by Yireo which is available here : https://github.com/yireo-training/Yireo_React

Many thanks to Yireo and Jessie Reitsma for setting the first steps of this implementation.

React for Magento 2 Knockout-based frontend

The current Magento 2 frontend is based on Knockout, RequireJS and ES5 code.

However, with an eye on the upcoming PWA moves, it is already possible to add React components to the Magento 2 frontend as it is.

This Magento module serves as a base module, to offer a generic Webpack configuration for modules like Yireo_ReactMinicart and Yireo_ReactMenu.

Pre-requisites

This module requires :

• yarn v1.19.1

What does it contains

• A basic integration of React into Magento, allowing to build React components
• This also integrates all Peregrine components shipped by Magento PWA Studio for better reusability.
• A webpack configuration allowing to build the components.

Installation

Use the following commands to install this module into Magento 2:

composer require smile/magento2-react
bin/magento module:enable Smile_React
bin/magento setup:upgrade

The composer install should have copied the files package.json and webpack.config.js to your Magento root. If that's not the case, you can copy them manually.

Next, install all of the packages:

yarn install

Next, you can build React sources in various modules via Webpack:

yarn dev

Alternatively, you can also copy the 2 files to another folder and use the MAGENTO_ROOT variable:

MAGENTO_ROOT=/var/www/html yarn dev

Usage

This module has no real functionality. It is only offering configuration files for other React modules.

See the Yireo_ReactMenu module for a dummy component.

The goal is to either create a module with a view/frontend/react_source folder or a theme with a react_source folder and
have this Webpack configuration pick up on those files to create a single bundle. Dynamic bundles (with an import() function
call) are also supported.

The theme is identified with a global variable:

MAGENTO_THEME=Magento/luma yarn dev

Experimental

This module is experimental and only meant for developers that are happy to invest time into it. It doesn't mean that it is
costing a lot of effort, it simply means that the project requires knowledge on React essentials.