whoisryosuke / solid-universal-renderer-template

Template for creating and testing SolidJS universal renderers

Solid Universal Renderer Template

Custom renderer for SolidJS using [your API here!]. Write JSX, render directly to [whatever you want!], no DOM required (unless you want!).

This is setup with a Semantic Release workflow based off Conventional Commits. And it's automatically released to Github and NPM using Github Actions.

How to use

1. Follow the instructions below to get the dev server up.
2. Check out the renderer inside packages/solid-canvaskit-renderer. This where the action happens like creating new elements, setting props, etc. I setup console.log in a few places to give you an idea of what you get to work with.
3. Your goal should be to take "elements" (usually strings from element tags e.g. <yourElement>) and render those somehow (ThreeJS, CanvasKit, or even custom DOM).

Tips

• You don't need to implement all the renderer methods! Most are kinda optional, especially if you don't have things like parent/child relationships between components.
• Similarly, you don't necessarily need a (virtual or not) DOM/node tree. If your graphics API is a flat scene graph, you don't need to worry about all the "parent"/"child" methods. If you do need a virtual DOM, I have a VNode class that has most methods you'll need.
• SolidJS goes through the component tree as a giant call stack of functions, first starting with createElement, then insertBefore, etc.

Development

There's a Vite website under packages/demo to be a playground to develop and test the library.

1. Fork/clone this repo: https://github.com/whoisryosuke/solid-canvaskit-renderer.git
2. Install dependencies: yarn
3. Start the Vite playground: yarn dev

Building package

1. yarn build

This runs the tsup process for one package/module. Check the package.json and packages/input-manager/package.json for more info.

Release to Github/NPM

This repo should automatically release to Github and tag the release when you commit to main, alpha, or beta branches (change these in package.json).

You can learn more about the CI/CD workflow in the Github Actions folder.

Setting up NPM

To setup NPM releases, you need to add your token to Github as an ENV var.

1. Make sure you've created a new repo for your package (not a fork).
2. Go to your repo settings.
3. Go to Environments
4. Create a new one called production
5. Add a NPM_TOKEN ENV with your token from NPM.

Lint and Code Formatting

If you use VSCode, Prettier should run each time you save a compatible file.

If you don't like this, go to .vscode\settings.json and disable there (or you can do it via your own VSCode settings).

yarn lint runs ESLint and Prettier, automatically formats files and rewrites them. Make sure to stage your code before running just in case.

References

• solid-three
• solid-canvaskit-renderer