@rbxts/react-ts

To allow React in Roblox-TS, this package combines jsdotlua/react and jsdotlua/roact-compat and re-exports them with typings from @rbxts/roact some types from the DefinitelyTyped package.

The package also needs to be installed with an alias to trick the compiler into using this package instead of the actual Roact package.

📦 Installation

⚛️ React for Roblox-TS

For this package to work, it needs the @rbxts/roact alias so that Roblox-TS can use this package for your TSX files.

You can install with an alias like so:

npm install @rbxts/roact@npm:@rbxts/react-ts@latest
yarn add @rbxts/roact@npm:@rbxts/react-ts@latest
pnpm add @rbxts/roact@npm:@rbxts/react-ts@latest # SEE NOTE BELOW

Make sure the following alias or something similar is in your package.json:

"dependencies": {
    "@rbxts/roact": "npm:@rbxts/react-ts",
}

⚠️ Note for pnpm users

PNPM symlinks packages by default, which doesn't work well with Rojo. You can disable this behavior by adding the following to your .npmrc:

node-linker=hoisted

📎 ReactRoblox

You can install @rbxts/react-roblox to render React components with createRoot instead of Roact.mount.

npm install @rbxts/react-roblox
yarn add @rbxts/react-roblox
pnpm add @rbxts/react-roblox

✅ Compatibility

Installing this package will install React, ReactRoblox, etc. directly under the @rbxts folder in located ReplicatedStorage.

If your package depends on React packages, they may be imported in Luau via require(script.Parent...Parent.MODULE) or require(...node_modules["@rbxts"].MODULE) depending on your project structure.

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📋 Sources

Types are derived from DefinitelyTyped.

Dependencies of this package were published from littensy/react-lua, which is a fork of jsdotlua/react-lua.