README.md

PyJSX - Write JSX directly in Python

# coding: jsx
from pyjsx import jsx, JSX

def Header(children, style=None, **rest) -> JSX:
    return <h1 style={style}>{children}</h1>

def Main(children, **rest) -> JSX:
    return <main>{children}</main>

def App() -> JSX:
    return (
        <div>
            <Header style={{"color": "red"}}>Hello, world!</Header>
            <Main>
                <p>This was rendered with PyJSX!</p>
            </Main>
        </div>
    )

Installation

Get it via pip:

pip install python-jsx

Minimal example

# hello.py
# coding: jsx
from pyjsx import jsx

def hello():
    print(<h1>Hello, world!</h1>)

# main.py
from pyjsx import auto_setup

from hello import hello

hello()

$ python main.py
<h1>Hello, word!</h1>

Tip

There are more examples available in the examples folder.

Each file containing JSX must contain two things:

• # coding: jsx directive - This tells Python to let our library parse the file first.
• from pyjsx import jsx import. PyJSX transpiles JSX into jsx(...) calls so it must be in scope.

To run a file containing JSX, the jsx codec must be registered first which can be done with from pyjsx import auto_setup. This must occur before importing any other file containing JSX.

Supported grammar

The full JSX grammar is supported. Here are a few examples:

Normal and self-closing tags

x = <div></div>
y = <img />

Props

<a href="example.com">Click me!</a>
<div style={{"color": "red"}}>This is red</div>
<span {...props}>Spread operator</span>

Nested expressions

<div>
    {[<p>Row: {i}</p> for i in range(10)]}
</div>

Fragments

fragment = (
    <>
        <p>1st paragraph</p>
        <p>2nd paragraph</p>
    </>
)

Custom components

A custom component can be any function that takes **kwargs and returns JSX or a plain string. The special prop children is a list containing the element's children.

def Header(children, **rest):
    return <h1>{children}</h1>

header = <Header>Title</Header>
print(header)

Prior art

Inspired by packed and pyxl4.