intrnl / jsx-to-string

Babel plugin for transforming JSX to HTML string equivalent. Mirror.

jsx-to-string

This is a VDOM-less variant of jsx-to-html, using a Babel transform to directly transform JSX into a string.

It means that this following code:

const Card = ({ title, children }) => {
	return (
		<div class="card">
			<div class="card__title">{title}</div>
			<div class="card__body">{children}</div>
		</div>
	);
};

const App = () => {
	return (
		<>
			<h1>Hello!</h1>
			<Card title="Card title">
				<p>We're inside a card!</p>
			</Card>
		</>
	);
};

const result = <App />;

result.value;

Will be transformed into something like this:

import * as _ from '@intrnl/jsx-to-string/runtime';

const Card = ({ title, children }) => {
	return _.html(
		'<div class=card><div class=card__title>' +
			_.render(title) +
			'</div><div class=card__body>' +
			_.render(children) +
			'</div></div>',
	);
};

const App = () => {
	return _.html(
		'<h1>Hello!</h1>' +
			_.render(
				Card({
					title: 'Card title',
					children: _.html("<p>We're inside a card!</p>"),
				}),
			),
	);
};
const result = _.html(_.render(App({})));

result.value;
// '<h1>Hello!</h1><div class=card><div class=card__title>Card title</div> ...'

With most of the JSX being turned into string concatenations, it's super fast. Components are turned into eager function calls, and the returned JSX values can be used as is without having to call render or renderToString on it.

Inserting raw HTML

Raw HTML insertion can be done by using the html function, this returns a TrustedHTML instance which prevents the string from being sanitized.

import { html } from '@intrnl/jsx-to-string';

const raw = html('<span>world</span>');
const result = <div>Hello {raw}</div>;

result.value;
// '<div>Hello <span>world</span></div>'