/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars */ import React from 'react'; import Page from '../Page'; import RefHtmlparser2 from '../components/RefHtmlparser2'; import useToolkit from '../toolkit/useToolkit'; const minimalHtmlRenderer = `import {Text, View} from 'react-native'; import {parseDocument, ElementType} from 'htmlparser2'; import React, {PureComponent} from 'react'; export default class RenderHtml extends PureComponent { ignoredTags = ['head']; textTags = ['span', 'strong', 'em']; renderTextNode(textNode, index) { return {textNode.data}; } renderElement(element, index) { if (this.ignoredTags.indexOf(element.name) > -1) { return null; } const Wrapper = this.textTags.indexOf(element.name) > -1 ? Text : View; return ( {element.children.map((c, i) => this.renderNode(c, i))} ); } renderNode(node, index) { switch (node.type) { case ElementType.Text: return this.renderTextNode(node, index); case ElementType.Tag: return this.renderElement(node, index); } return null; } render() { const document = parseDocument(this.props.html); return document.children.map((c, i) => this.renderNode(c, i)); } }`; export default function PageReinventTheWheel() { const { Acronym, Admonition, Bold, Header, Paragraph, Chapter, Section, SourceDisplay, RefLibrary, RefRNSymbol, RefHtmlElement, RefCssProperty, RefDoc, RefRenderHtmlProp, RenderHtmlCard, InlineCode, Hyperlink, List, ListItem, SvgFigure } = useToolkit(); return (
To understand how this library works, we propose a teeny, tiny implementation of an HTML renderer in just about{' '} 40 lines of code. Of course, it has many limitations that are overcomed by react-native-render-html, but it will give you a good glimpse at how things work internally.
To do so, we will need an HTML parsing library which will give us some sort of proxy DOM representation of the HTML source. In this very example, we will use library: Below is an overview of the component's{' '} render method invocation: Line 36 invokes parseDocument{' '} from which returns the root DOM node of the document. Line 37 returns the mapping of the root's children with the result of renderNode method. Line 25, the renderNode method returns: the result of renderTextNode when provided with a DOM Text node, the result of renderElement when the provided node is an Element, and{' '} null otherwise, such as when the provided node is a comment, script, or stylesheet. Although the renderTextNode implementation is pretty straightforward,{' '} renderElement has some conditional logic to render the element either in a React Native{' '} or . This is to bypass rendering glitches when embedding {' '} inside , such as discussed in more details in the below section (hoisting). We allude to the DOM an DOM nodes while only provides a subset of the DOM API for lightweightness! Perhaps your requirements are so simple that this might actually be sufficient for your use-case. You could try to extend this naive implementation with the below, easy to implement features: Add custom renderers for specific tags such as{' '} , ... Add styles for specific tags and classes. However, you will get involved in a much substantial and complex task if you have requirements such as:{' '} Support{' '} inline styles . You would need to transform those styles into React Native compatible styles. Beware that unsupported styles on the native side could easily crash your app. Support{' '} whitespace collapsing {' '} such as in CSS property. Support{' '} URL resolutions , such as relative URLs, elements... etc. Support{' '} hoisting . Because React Native elements are not well handled inside elements, these should be hoisted up in the tree to be rendered inside{' '} Views. Support complete{' '} CSS inheritance . For example, a element could have a style with text properties such as , but a React Native element which is the default mapping for will not support such style property. See page. react-native-render-html overcomes all of those caveats and more out of the box!
); }