API Platform CRUD Generator

A generator to scaffold a React/Redux app with Create-Retrieve-Update-Delete features for any API exposing a Hydra documentation. Works especially well with APIs built with the API Platform framework.

Features

• Generate high-quality ES6 components and files built with React, Redux, React Router and Redux Form including:
  • A list view
  • A creation form
  • An edition form
  • A deletion button
• Use the Hydra API documentation to generate the code
• Generate the appropriate HTML5 input type (number, date...) according to the type of the API property
• Display server-side validation errors under the related input (if using API Platform Core)
• Client-side validation (required attributes)
• The generated HTML is compatible with Bootstrap and include mandatory classes
• The generated HTML code is accessible to people with disabilities (ARIA support)
• The Redux and the React Router configuration is also generated

Installation and Usage

Create a React application using Facebook's Create React App:

$ create-react-app my-app
$ cd my-app

Install React Router, Redux, React Redux, React Router Redux, Redux Form and Redux Thunk (to handle AJAX requests):

$ yarn add redux react-redux redux-thunk redux-form react-router-dom react-router-redux prop-types

Install the generator globally:

$ yarn global add api-platform-generate-crud

Reference the Bootstrap CSS stylesheet in public/index.html (optional):

  <!-- ... -->
    <title>React App</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-BVYiiSIFeK1dGmJRAkycuHAHRg32OmUcww7on3RYdg4Va+PmSTsz/K68vbdEjh4u" crossorigin="anonymous">
  </head>
  <!-- ... -->

In the app directory, generate the files for the resource you want:

$ api-platform-generate-crud http://localhost src/ --resource foo
# Replace the URL by the entrypoint of your Hydra-enabled API
# Omit the resource flag to generate files for all resource types exposed by the API

The code is ready to be executed! Register the generated reducers and components in the index.js file, here is an example:

import React from 'react';
import ReactDom from 'react-dom';
import { createStore, combineReducers, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
import { reducer as form } from 'redux-form';
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Switch } from 'react-router-dom';
import createBrowserHistory from 'history/createBrowserHistory';
import { syncHistoryWithStore, routerReducer as routing } from 'react-router-redux'

// Replace "foo" by the name of the resource type
import foo from './reducers/foo/';
import fooRoutes from './routes/foo';

const store = createStore(
  combineReducers({routing, form, foo}), // Don't forget to register the reducers here
  applyMiddleware(thunk),
);

const history = syncHistoryWithStore(createBrowserHistory(), store);

ReactDom.render(
  <Provider store={store}>
    <Router history={history}>
      <Switch>
        {fooRoutes}
        <Route render={() => <h1>Not Found</h1>}/>
      </Switch>
    </Router>
  </Provider>,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

TODO

• Add support for pagination
• Automatically normalize numbers
• Generate E2E tests
• Add a React Native generator

Run tests

$ yarn test
$ yarn lint

Credits

Created by Kévin Dunglas. Sponsored by Les-Tilleuls.coop.