gl-react/docs/api/Component.md
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# Component
**`GL.Component` is the class to extend to implement a GL Component.**
```js
class MyEffect extends GL.Component {
render () {
return <GL.View ...>...</GL.View>;
}
}
```
`GL.Component` allows to **compose** effects:
it tells the `gl-react-core` algorithm to "unfold" the `render()` looking for a `GL.View` to merge with.
> Although it is technically not required to extend `GL.Component` (you can still use `React.Component`),
this is generally a good idea because you always want to make a component "composable".
## Composing effects
Effects component can be implemented as follow:
```js
// Assuming we have defined a shaders.myEffect, where the frag have:
// a `tex` sampler2D uniform
// a `someParam` uniform
class MyEffect extends GL.Component {
render () {
const { width, height, children, someParam } = this.props;
return <GL.View shader={shaders.myEffect} width={width} height={height} uniforms={{ someParam }}>
<GL.Target uniform="tex">{children}</GL.Target>
</GL.View>;
}
}
```
Once you have defined effect components that inject `children` (let's say `Blur` and `Negative`), you can compose them together.
**Example:**
```html
<Blur factor={1.2} width={200} height={150}>
<Negative width={200} height={150}>
http://i.imgur.com/qM9BHCy.jpg
</Negative>
</Blur>
```
and define another generic component out of it:
```js
class BlurNegative extends GL.Component {
render () {
const { width, height, blur, children } = this.props;
return <Blur factor={blur} width={width} height={height}>
<Negative width={width} height={height}>
{children}
</Negative>
</Blur>;
}
}
```
and use it:
```html
<BlurNegative factor={1.2} width={200} height={150}>
http://i.imgur.com/qM9BHCy.jpg
</BlurNegative>
```
## Implementation notes
Effects composition are made efficient using OpenGL Framebuffers:
the rendering is made in the same pipeline.
[`gl-react-core`](https://github.com/ProjectSeptemberInc/gl-react-core)
contains the core logic (shared across both `gl-react` and `gl-react-native`)
that convert the Virtual DOM Tree into `data`, an object tree that represent the rendering pipeline.
Respective implementation will then uses that `data` tree and
render it in OpenGL (for gl-react-native) or in WebGL (for gl-react, using [stack.gl](http://stack.gl) libs).