Runs only before first render, i.e before the component instance is mounted.
It is ignored on subsequent rerenders.
PS: You can conditionally update state from here, but with certain caveats. See the React docs for more details.
Runs only after first render, i.e after the component instance is mounted. It is ignored on subsequent rerenders.
Should usually only be used for logic that does not directly take part in determining what to render, like synchronize your component with some external system.
Runs before every render cycle, including the first. Useful for logic that is involved in determining what to render.
This is the ideal place to transform data for display.
Return the transformed data in an object, and the object will
availble as [self.templateContext
](templateContext)
for use in your JSX template.
PS: You can conditionally update state from here, but with certain caveats. See the React docs for more details.
Runs after every render cycle, including the first.
Should usually only be used for logic that does not directly take part in determining what to render, like synchronize your component with some external system.
Uses useEffect()
under the hood.
Returns a cleanup function.
Runs when the component is unmounted. It is called after the cleanup function returned by onMount.
Readonly
stateA CleanState
object.
Holds all of your component's state,
and methods for conveniently manipulating those values.
Initialiazed with the object returned from your getInitialState
method.
Readonly
propsThe props passed into your component at the time of rendering.
Readonly
hooksValues received from the hooks your component consumes. This holds the latest copy of the object returned by useHooks.
Specify custom class members to be copied over whenever the class is reinstantiated during hot module replacement.
Oore handles HMR by recreating the class instance with the updated code whenever there is a file change. Your component is then rerendered so that event handlers now point to the new functions.
For this to work well, your component's state needs to be preserved,
so it is copied over from the old instance, to the newly created one.
This includes state
, props
by default, but you can
extend it to include more properties if there are values your component expects
to be persistent.
In most case, any values you wish to preserve should be created React.useRef
.
// In useHooks method:
this.inputId = useRef(inputId);
// And access anywhere with:
this.inputId.current;
If you use a ref in this way, React will preserve it for you, and there will be no need
to use _hmrPreserveKeys
.
_hmrPreserveKeys
is only relevant in development and has not effect in production environment.
Accordingly, you should only update this array when environment is development, so
that it can be tree-shaken during production builds.
in addition to state
, props
, and hooks
.
MyComponentMethods extends ComponentMethods {
// Some class member definitions...
constructor() {
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
this._hmrPreserveKeys.push('inputId', 'unsubscribeCallback');
}
}
// Method definitions...
}
With the above example, whenever HMR occurs, `this.inputId` and `this.unsubscribeCallback`
will maintain there existing values, while everything else will be recreated. Meanwhile,
because the code is written in an environment condition, it should be easy to strip it from the
production build to avoid shipping dead code
Optional
_onHandle complex update logic whenever your component instance is updated through HMR. The function is called on the new instance, and it receives the old instance as the only argument. So you can access data from the old instance, and reinitialize any processes on the new instance as needed.
_onHmrUpdate
is only relevant in development and has not effect in production environment.
Accordingly, you should only assign this function when environment is development, so
that it can be tree-shaken during production builds.
Holds the object returned by beforeRender.
This is useful when you need to render some state or props in a transformed format. Put the transformation logic in beforeRender to the keep the function component template clean.
class MyComponentLogic extends ComponentInstance {
beforeRender = () => {
const title = `My Site | ${this.props.title}`;
return { title };
}
}
const MyComponent = (props) => {
const self = useInstance(MyComponentLogic, props);
const { template: ctx, state } = self;
return (
<h1>
{ctx.title}
</h1>
<p>{props.description}</p>
);
}
Call React hooks from here. If your component needs access to values return from the hooks you call, expose those values by returning an object with said values.
The returned object will be accessible as this.hooks
within
your component class.
A superset of ComponentLogic that adds support for lifecycle methods. This provides a declarative API for working with your React function component's lifecycle, a simpler alternative to the imperative approach with
useEffect
and/oruseMemo
.See
https://github.com/cleanjsweb/neat-react#lifecycle-useinstance