In a a previous post Stoyan Stefanov introduced a setup where you could render React templates on the server-side with the help of PHP and the v8 parsing. In this second part of the series, he extends that system and shows how to use it to update views based on new data.

Part 1 ended with todos. The first one was to couple the server-side generated code with the client-side React, so that any updates past the initial page load will be handled by React's client JS, which is where React shines. Let's see how you can do just that.

He gives an example similar to his previous one - displaying a table - but shows how to inject some values from PHP as a JSON string into the component. This time he saves the output of that rendering into a variable and reuses it as a part of a whole site render later.