Convert the sidebar to react.

Review Request #9557 — Created Jan. 31, 2018 and submitted

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This change converts the SidebarView to use react internally. This is
mostly a very straightforward change.

The only unusual part of this change is the shim between react-router
and Backbone.Router. For now, we're using react-router's <NavLink>
components, but intercepting click events and redirecting them back to
the old window.application.go() function. This triggers the existing
routes properly. We also have a handler for when the route changes in
Backbone to mirror that back into react-router's history object. Once
the other views have been converted (or at least wrapped), the
<Router> component can be moved into the application view, and we can
get rid of the special route handling and just rely on react for all of
that.

  • Verified that the sidebar items loaded correctly for a variety of
    scenarios.
  • Checked that the correct item was highlighted based on the route.
  • Checked that item highlighting updated correctly even when routes were
    triggered from elsewhere in the UI (such as the "All Users" list).
Description From Last Updated

Since we're on React 16.2, you can use a fragment: {loggedin && ( <> <SidebarItem to="/calendar" label="Calendar" /> <SidebarItem to="/status" …

brenniebrennie

Here, too.

brenniebrennie
brennie
  1. Tiny suggestions, but lgtm.

  2. lib/frontend/sidebar-view.js (Diff revision 1)
     
     
     
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    Since we're on React 16.2, you can use a fragment:

    {loggedin && (
      <>
        <SidebarItem to="/calendar" label="Calendar" />
        <SidebarItem to="/status" label="My Status Reports" />
      </>
    )}
    

    The fragment will render just the contents without any wrapping element.

    1. This is more or less how the original underscore template did it, but I decided that I actually preferred guarding each item individually. I feel like it makes it easier to read, compared to conditionals that might be grouped just depending on what order the items happen to be in.

  3. lib/frontend/sidebar-view.js (Diff revision 1)
     
     
     
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    Here, too.

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david
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Change Summary:
Pushed to master (b495f61)