babel-plugin-react-binding

Two way binding sugar for React.

Usage

install

npm i babel-plugin-react-binding --save-dev

add react-binding to .babelrc

{
  "plugins": [
    ["react-binding", {
      // options
    }]
  ]
}

use binding in React JSX!

<div>
  <input binding={this.state.inputValue}>
  <Dialog binding={this.state.dialogOpen}>
</div>

binding to redux example

class App extends React.Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <input id='input' binding={this.props.input} />
    )
  }
}
 
export default connect(
  state => state.form,
  dispatch => ({
    onChange (value, key) {
      dispatch({
        type: 'UPDATE_FORM',
        key,
        value,
      })
    },
  })
)(App)

Principle

react-binding will automatically add value and onChange props to React Element. After the event triggered, react-binding will receive the new value, and execute setState() to update the value.

You can think of it as (if you write by hand):

<input
  value={this.state.inputValue}
  onChange={e => this.setState({ inputValue: e.target.value })}
>

Options

Use babel option to custom the prop name (default binding)

{
  "plugins": [
    ["react-binding", {
      "attrName": "bindModel"
    }]
  ]
}

Then the jsx code may be like:

<input bindModel={this.state.inputValue}>

Custom Component

By default, react-binding use value and onChange as default prop names for two-way binding (except radio and checkbox, they use checked). But some custom component may use another prop name, for example onInput.

Use static property bindingDescriptor for adaptation.

CustomComponent.bindingDescriptor = {
  prop: 'number',
  event: 'onInput',
}