Merge pull request markfinger#8 from jimrrchen/nocache

Added options to disable cache so we don't need to restart server.js whenever there are JS changes

README.md

@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ reactRender({
   // markup. Defaults to false.
   toStaticMarkup: true
 
+  // A flag indicating if you wish to disable caching for components. This is
+  // especially useful in development. Defaults to false.
+  noCache: false
+
 }, function(err, markup) {
   if (err) throw err;
 

lib/Component.js

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 var React = require('react');
 var ReactDOMServer = require('react-dom/server');
+var decache = require('decache');
 
 var Component = function Component(opts) {
   this.opts = opts;
@@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ Component.prototype.getComponent = function getComponent(cb) {
     }
 
     try {
+      if (this.opts.noCache) {
+        decache(this.path);
+      }
+
       this.component = require(this.path);
       if (this.component && typeof this.component === 'object' && this.component.default) {
         this.component = this.component.default

lib/index.js

@@ -17,13 +17,18 @@ var components = {
 };
 
 var reactRender = function reactRender(opts, cb) {
-  var _opts = _.pick(opts, 'component', 'path');
+  var _opts = _.pick(opts, 'component', 'path', 'noCache');
 
-  var component = components.find(_opts);
-
-  if (!component) {
+  var component;
+  if (_opts.noCache) {
     component = new Component(_opts);
-    components.add(component);
+  } else {
+    component = components.find(_opts);
+
+    if (!component) {
+      component = new Component(_opts);
+      components.add(component);
+    }
   }
 
   var props = opts.props;

package.json

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
     "chai": "^3.0.0",
     "mocha": "^2.2.5",
     "react": "^0.14.2",
-    "react-dom": "^0.14.2"
+    "react-dom": "^0.14.2",
+    "decache": "^4.1.0"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test": "mocha"