# @stencil/react-output-target

Stencil can generate React class component wrappers for your web components. This allows your Stencil components to be used within a React application. The benefits of using Stencil's component wrappers over the standard web components include:

- Typings for your components
- JSX bindings for custom events (event names are renamed to match React's convention of `onEventName`)
- Tag names are renamed to match PascalCase convention.
- Adds support for property types outside of string and number (supports: functions, objects and arrays).

For a detailed guide on how to add the react output target to a project, visit: https://stenciljs.com/docs/react.

## Installation

```bash
npm install @stencil/react-output-target
```

## Usage

In your `stencil.config.ts` add the following configuration to the `outputTargets` section:

```ts
import { Config } from '@stencil/core';
import { reactOutputTarget } from '@stencil/react-output-target';

export const config: Config = {
  namespace: 'demo',
  outputTargets: [
    reactOutputTarget({
      componentCorePackage: 'component-library',
      proxiesFile: '../component-library-react/src/components.ts',
    }),
    {
      type: 'dist',
      esmLoaderPath: '../loader',
    },
  ],
};
```

## Config Options

| Property                      | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `componentCorePackage`        | The NPM package name of your Stencil component library. This package is used as a dependency for your React wrappers.                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| `proxiesFile`                 | The output file of all the component wrappers generated by the output target. This file path should point to a location within your React library/project.                                                                                                                                                                       |
| `excludeComponents`           | An array of tag names to exclude from generating component wrappers for. This is helpful when have a custom framework implementation of a specific component or need to extend the base component wrapper behavior.                                                                                                              |
| `loaderDir`                   | This is the path to where the `defineCustomElements` function exists in your built project. If `loaderDir` is not provided, the `/dist/loader` directory will be used.                                                                                                                                                           |
| `includePolyfills`            | If `true`, polyfills will automatically be imported and the `applyPolyfills` function will be called in your proxies file. This can only be used when lazy loading Web Components and will not work when `includeImportCustomElements` is `true`.                                                                                |
| `includeDefineCustomElements` | If `true`, all Web Components will automatically be registered with the Custom Elements Registry. This can only be used when lazy loading Web Components and will not work when `includeImportCustomElements` is `true`.                                                                                                         |
| `includeImportCustomElements` | If `true`, the output target will import the custom element instance and register it with the Custom Elements Registry when the component is imported inside of a user's app. This can only be used with the [Custom Elements Bundle](https://stenciljs.com/docs/custom-elements) and will not work with lazy loaded components. |
| `customElementsDir`           | This is the directory where the custom elements are imported from when using the [Custom Elements Bundle](https://stenciljs.com/docs/custom-elements). Defaults to the `components` directory. Only applies when `includeImportCustomElements` is `true`.                                                                        |