[React] React Fundamentals: with-addons - ReactLink

It can be tedious to type out all the boilerplate needed to get the DOM and states in React to synchronize. Luckily, React provides a version of the toolkit with a selection of available addons. This lesson is going to dig into ReactLink, and how this addon can give you two-way binding.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>React Lesson 15: dynamically create componenets</title>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.12.2/react.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.12.2/JSXTransformer.js"></script>
    <style>
        body {
            margin: 25px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="panel"></div>
<script type="text/jsx">
    /** @jsx React.DOM */

    var App = React.createClass({
        getInitialState:function(){
            return {
                name: '',
                email: ''
            }
        },
        update: function () {
           this.setState({
               name: this.refs.name.getDOMNode().value,
               email: this.refs.email.getDOMNode().value
           })
        },
        render:function(){
            return (
                <form>
                    <div>
                        <input type="text" ref="name" onChange={this.update} placeholder="Name"/>
                        <label>*{this.state.name}*</label>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                        <input type="text" ref="email" onChange={this.update} placeholder="Email"/>
                        <label>*{this.state.email}*</label>
                    </div>
                </form>
            );
        }

    });

    React.render(<App />, document.getElementById('panel'));
</script>
</body>
</html>

Use addon: ReactLink

1. include the script:

script src="https://fb.me/react-with-addons-0.13.3.js"></script>

2. Add mixin:

mixins: [React.addons.LinkedStateMixin],

3. Use valueLink={this.linkState('name')} instead of 'ref' and 'onChange':

<input valueLink={this.linkState('name')} type="text" placeholder="Name" />

Code:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>React Lesson 15: dynamically create componenets</title>
    <script src="https://fb.me/react-with-addons-0.13.3.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.13.3/JSXTransformer.js"></script>
    <style>
        body {
            margin: 25px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="panel"></div>
<script type="text/jsx">
    /** @jsx React.DOM */

    var App = React.createClass({
        mixins: [React.addons.LinkedStateMixin],
        getInitialState:function(){
            return {
                name: '',
                email: ''
            }
        },
        render:function(){
            return (
                <form>
                    <div>
                        <input valueLink={this.linkState('name')} type="text" placeholder="Name" />
                        <label>*{this.state.name}*</label>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                        <input valueLink={this.linkState('email')} type="text" placeholder="Email" />
                        <label>*{this.state.email}*</label>
                    </div>
                </form>
            );
        }

    });

    React.render(<App />, document.getElementById('panel'));
</script>
</body>
</html>