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Olivier Guimbal
Olivier Guimbal

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Introducing ngx-react : 🅰️Angular + ⚛️React interoperability without pain.

Have you ever wanted to use React components in an Angular application ? Or to start migrating an Angular app to React component-by-component ? Or simply use both at the same time ?

I developped ngx-react which allows you to do just that with ease.

It enables you to use your Angular components in React, and vice versa, quite transparently, and without boilerplate.

📐 Setup

Just declare a bridge, somewhere in your application:

import { NgxReactBridge } from 'ngx-react';

export const bridge = new NgxReactBridge()
    // bridge options:
    .addProvider(/** Add a global react provider here */);
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Use 🅰️ in ⚛️

Then, to use an Angular component in React, just import it like that:

const AsReact = bridge.toReact(MyAngularCommonent);

// use it 👉  <AsReact prop={whatever} />
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The generated ⚛️ component will take as props all the @Input()s of your 🅰️ component, and all the @Output()s, mapped to functions. (i.e. @Output() onThing: EventEmitter<string> will be mapped to prop onThing: (event: string) => void.

Use ⚛️ in 🅰️

To use a React component in Angular, you'll have to do a tiny bit more work... for instance if you have a React component:

function MyReactComponent(props: {
  data: string;
  dataChange: (evt: string) => void;
}) {
    // [...]
}

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Then magically convert it to its Angular counterpart like that:

@Directive({ selector: "my-react-component" })
export class MyReactComponent_Angular extends reactBridge.toAngular(
  MyReactComponent
) {

  // a bit of extra work: You will have to map the properties yourself 
  @Input()
  data!: string;
  @Output()
  dataChange = new EventEmitter();
}
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(the Angular compiler doesnt allow to build dynamic components... so we have to declare them statically)

Services

Just inject Angular services in React like that:

const service = useService(MyAngularService);
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Wrapping up

I'll write more about this when I have more time 👉 But please share your thought if you have some :)

More details on the ngx-react repository

Top comments (2)

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Alain D'Ettorre

Some people just want to watch the world burn

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Pavel Shilov

Custom html components written in Stencil, I choose you !