Hi, version 2.0.0 was published a few days ago, allowing to have multiple renderers. The number of renderers is configurable.

Take a look at the changelog for more details:
https://github.com/revelrylabs/elixir_react_render/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

I have been using a slight variant of this for full page rendering of react apps and its working great. Almost entirely replacing eex templates and relying solely on server side rendered + hydrated react on the client. This pattern is a bit against the grain, and rather than attempting to avoid javascript within Phoenix front-ends, it embraces it!

I have not really built much using eex templates, and generally find myself reaching for react when building decently complex UIs in Phoenix apps. I do have a javascript background, more specifically Meteor, so I suppose it is just what I am more familiar with.

I think for people coming from node, or react backgrounds, this pattern would help ease them into using phoenix on the back-end, and maybe help grow the community!

Wow this is very cool, thanks for open sourcing it. I’ve been experimenting with different frontend/backend architectures for a couple of months now leveraging React and lately have been using Next.js to do SSR talking to Phoenix backend using Apollo/Absinthe. It all works (generally) but adds a heavy fast-moving dependency and some degree of complexity.

It might be cleaner/simpler to use this library instead. Two questions:

• I realize it’s very new and I was only able to find one example app on GH using it (GitHub - Harleymckee/reactin · GitHub). Are you using it in dev/prod on some closed-source apps already or is it experimental?
• I think it uses a GenServer to control a single spawned long-running node instance that does all the rendering. Have you done load testing on it? I think (not sure) each render request blocks all other render requests and not sure what happens if node crashes for a given request. Maybe using poolboy (or something) could make it more performant/resilient… have you considered?

Thanks again!