make the render root configurable

[samsel]

right now, react-engine assumes document as the root element.
Need to make this configurable.

react-engine/lib/client.js

Line 69 in ecd27b3

React.render(viewFactory(props), _document);

[dglozic]

+1 I just realized that it would help issue #73. We can render the envelope of the page on the server, and then mount the react component on a DIV inside the body element. We can render the edge elements of the page on the server only, while the parts of the page that are dynamic can be happening inside that root DIV where we mounted the component.

[samsel]

@slkuo230 has already completed this. @slkuo230 can you please rebase #69 so that we can merge it?

[slkuo230]

@samsel done!

[dglozic]

I was hoping v2.5.0 had this one but no luck. When do you plan to merge it into master?

[dglozic]

Bump - what does 'done' in the comment above refer to?

[slkuo230]

@dglozic it was referred to this PR #69. :)

[dglozic]

Damn :-). Any love for this issue? It would help us immensely. I can see @samsel opened this issue, so he must have had a use for it too.

It could be either an id for the mount node in 'options', or you can leave the DOM lookup part to the consumer and accept the DOM node in options to mount to. Either way, it should not be hard to add.

[samsel]

@slkuo230 @dglozic published this as v2.6.0. let me know :)

[dglozic]

Hmmm.... I don't see v2.6.0- I only see tags up to v2.5.0.

[samsel]

its published to the repository already. You can just do npm install to get 2.6

[dglozic]

It was just a split second - I can now see v2.6 - thanks! We jump on it right away.