On phpied.com Stoyan Stefanov has a new post showing how to do server-side React in PHP. React is a user interface library developed by Facebook and Instagram to make building UIs simpler.

So you know about React and how to build your own components. And you know you can run JavaScript inside PHP scripts, thanks to v8js. So nothing can stop you from rendering React components on the server side in PHP. Which means you send the first view from the server and then continue from there.

He walks you through the process step-by-step, showing how to set up the environment for the components and make a test file you'll use to build the components. He includes the Javascript code to make a simple table based on given data. Using the V8J libraries, he makes an object, pushes the Javascript string into it and render it to a string by executing the code. A screenshot is included showing what the output should look like.