React-Luma Module is a Faster and Free Open-Source Hyva Alternative. Actually, you don’t even need to change the Theme. It works as a composer module to improve your existing theme without re-platforming to Hyva, or it can be used to improve Hyva.
React-Luma is 20% faster than any M2 front-end, including Hyva, today!
100% Vanilla.JS(no framework was used to improve performance) and default magento CSS without LESS compilation. However, it can be easily extended by any JS (ReactJS, VueJS) or CSS(Tilewind) library of your choice.
Do you have questions about integrating ReactJS or VueJS with Magento 2 frontend? This Magento module will help you
React Magento 2 implementation. This module explains how to add and use ReactJS or any other framework micro-frontend UI Components with Magento 2 and forget about Knockout/JQuery Magento 2 UI without migration to a new theme(Works with existing theme and designs). Checkout, admin, customer account, and any other part of your store can work using legacy Magento 2 JS implementation
- VueJS implementation
- Magento Configuration enable React, VueJS
- Remove Magento's default JS Junk (Require, Knockout, jQuery) configuration. You will need to implement the required functionality or use Magento Open Source ReactJS Luma Theme
- CSS optimizer feature added. Add optimized CSS files to pub/static/styles-(l|m).css and replace the default Magento one
- Magento ReactJS Luma theme released
- React-Luma module. Just install the module and optimize the theme
Repo is here: https://github.com/Genaker/Luma-React-PWA-Magento-Theme
You can add any modern library to extend magento fetire. React-Luma has basic magento fetures implemented using natibe JS without dependencies It is not PWA or headless implementation which is impossible to use with an existing website. Also, Single Page Application (SPA) PWA Magento 2 implementations have issues with Magento 2 API performance - too slow. This implementation is High-Performance integration with magento2 (with Magento 1 also easy to use) it uses inline JSON directly from the page. The same approach is used in Magento 2 backend and frontend checkout, color swatches by default. Also can use Ajax HTTP call to fetch data (not the best solution Magento API is slow and will increase the load on your backend server). Or you can use my future project "Microservices Magento" to fetch data.
You can also replace Magento CSS with your custom CSS files if you put them compiled into pub/static
$optimisedCSSFilePath = BP . '/pub/static/styles-m.css';
VueJS is a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Unlike Magento 2 UI monolithic component, Vue is designed from the ground up to be incrementally adoptable. The core library is focused on the view layer only, and is easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects.
- ReactJS 17 - 11KB
- ReactDOM - 120KB
- Preact - 12KB
- HTML for Preact - 1KB
- RequireJS - 17KB
- VueJS - 94KB
- KnockoutJS - 67KB
- jQuery - 89Kb
- AlpineJS - 34KB
Read this article: https://blog.vuestorefront.io/yehor-shytikov-pwa-is-a-real-revolution-not-only-in-ecommerce/
Magento 2 has a better framework optimization from a development perspective. It allows developers to use the dependency injection, plugin system (which is considered harmful AOP software development principle read: https://yegorshytikov.medium.com/magento-2-plug-ins-aod-architecture-are-harmful-dc23c4edb534), and XML notations for layout. I personally like the folder structure in which one directory is one module. Magento 1 was messy since one module contains several folders.
Magento 2 uses a modern Symphony approach but it still has a lot of legacy code. Even though it introduces a new way of embracing front-end development, however from a nowadays perspective it is not enough(legacy). No wonder as Magento 2 was released before Vue.js and React took the world popularity. These JS frameworks add more features for developers and - in general - provide more possibilities.
composer require genaker/react-luma
(https://github.com/Genaker/Magento2OPcacheGUI)
Install Node.JS (https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md) From the extension root (React/React) folder run:
npm install
npm start
Web Puck compiles everything automatically into React/React/view/base/web/js/index_bundle.js and deploys to pub/static without running static:deploy ssh command. LiveReload Plugin will reload Magento 2 pages automatically (not recommended solution by React Community. F5 more reliable solution). What you need just disable the Cache of your browser during development. Also, You can disable caching for single react bundle files via Nginx config.
Usage of the web-pack sometimes is too difficult for Magento developers. I have created another way to use React with Magento without any compilation/complication. Simply add these files to the Magento installation:
// React JS itself
<script src='https://npmcdn.com/[email protected]/dist/react-dom.min.js'></script>
// Babel to avoid compilation
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js"></script>
//Add to the page to render React component
<div id = "magentoReactApp"> </div>
//Write you scripts using babel
<script type="text/babel">
var App = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return(
<div className="App">
{/*Your APP code there */}
</div>
);
}
});
ReactDOM.render(
<App />,
document.getElementById('magentoReactApp')
);
</script>
This project aims to solve the case where you want assets served by your Magento app server, but still want reloads triggered from web packs build pipeline.
Add a script tag to your page pointed at the livereload server
<script src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js"></script>
For development purpose better disable browser caching (https://www.technipages.com/google-chrome-how-to-completely-disable-cache)
Disable react bundle caching for development purpose using Nginx (not tested yet):
location ~ index_bundle\.js {
add_header Cache-Control no-cache;
expires 0;
}