Supported API for making new event types (i.e., event plugin injection)

[tmcw]

I'm trying to implement a scrollable list of items that are tappable on mobile devices. It looks like there are two plugins that address the 'how to tap' problem - https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/src/browser/eventPlugins/MobileSafariClickEventPlugin.js & https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/src/browser/eventPlugins/TapEventPlugin.js .

I'm confused about Plugins: they aren't mentioned in the docs, and it's unclear if they're things that you can build in runtime, with require('react') or which require recompilation with Grunt. Is the plugin system itself in flux? I'd love to help out on getting these merged so that developing mobile apps is more straightforward.

[syranide]

http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/top-level-api.html#react.initializetouchevents and #436

For now you need to manually build a version of React with TapEventPlugin and also call initializeTouchEvents.

PS. EventPlugins are not really plugins in the general sense of them being externally pluggable, but rather that they're internally indepedent features.

[jareware]

Yes! This is exactly what I'd want. That is, being able to tell React to start managing new named DOM events, e.g.:

// NOTE: Fictive API:
React.registerDomEvent({
  eventName: 'foo-bar',
  eventProp: 'onFooBar'
});

Having an API like this would make it much, much simpler to hook in things like external gesture recognizers etc.