sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/react-htm-templating

React HTM (Hyperscript Tagged Markup) Templating

Summary

This Web Part provides an example of how to create a dynamic template system (configurable via Web Part properties) that can not only render HTML but also React controls, such as Fluent UI, without the need to use Handlebars.js + Web Components.

Compatibility

Applies to

• SharePoint Framework
• Microsoft 365 tenant

Solution

Solution	Author(s)
react-htm-templating	Fabio Franzini (@franzinifabio), fabiofranzini.com

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0	August 4, 2021	Initial release

Minimal Path to Awesome

• Clone this repository
• in the command line run:
  • npm install
  • gulp serve

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Features

This example born from the need to have a template system that can directly use the "Fluent UI" components (or other components) written in React, without the need to use any wrapper such as, for example, encapsulating the rendering of components via Web Components.

The web part uses a template system called HTM (Hyperscript Tagged Markup), whose meaning is: "htm is JSX-like syntax in plain JavaScript - no transpiler necessary".

Basically, the template is nothing more than the JS code, which is evaluated through the Function constructor.

...
const evalFunction = new Function(this.properties.template);
...
const executeEvalFunction = () => {
    return evalFunction.call(evalFunctionContext);
};
...
let renderComponent = html`<${executeEvalFunction} />`;
ReactDom.render(renderComponent, this.domElement);

The template must return the object generated by htm which is the component instance that you will have to render.

For HTM syntax please refer to the official GitHub repo).

The Web Part is configured to pass a context object to the template, with the following objects:

• this.html: Reference to the HTM engine.
• this.react: Reference to React.
• this.theme: Reference to the 'Theme' object of SharePoint Page.
• this.themeVariant: Reference to the Theme Variant object.
• this.fui: Reference to the 'Fluent UI' namespace.
• this.fuiHooks: Reference to the 'Fluent UI Hooks' namespace.
• this.fuiSampleData: Reference to the 'Fluent UI Sample Data' namespace.

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Disclaimer

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