Mesh

A React + Livewire 4 islands bridge. Render interactive framework components inside Livewire, with props flowing across the boundary.

What it does

Mesh lets you drop a React (or Vue/Svelte) component into a Livewire view and treat it as an island. Livewire owns the server state; Mesh hands props across the bridge and mounts the component.

Install

composer require ethanbarlo/mesh

See INSTALL.md for the full host-app setup (Vite alias, app.ts, Livewire start).

Quick example

1. The PHP component

<?php

namespace App\Mesh;

use EthanBarlo\Mesh\Component;

class Counter extends Component
{
    public function props(): array
    {
        return [
            'start' => 0,
        ];
    }
}

2. The React component

A component is a folder whose index.{tsx,jsx} default-exports it.

// resources/js/mesh/Counter/index.tsx
import { useState } from 'react'

export default function Counter({ start }: { start: number }) {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(start)
  return <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>{count}</button>
}

3. Wire up `app.ts`

There is no per-component registration and nothing to declare for components. Mesh auto-discovers every component under resources/js/mesh and code-splits each into its own async chunk, loaded on first render. You only register your renderers:

// resources/js/app.ts
import { Livewire, Alpine } from '../../vendor/livewire/livewire/dist/livewire.esm'
import { initMesh } from '@mesh'
import reactRenderer from '@mesh/react'

initMesh(Livewire, {
  renderers: [reactRenderer],
  debug: true,
})

Livewire.start()

4. Render in Blade

<mesh:counter />

Documentation

Laravel Boost

Mesh ships AI guidelines and a mesh-development agent skill for Laravel Boost. If your app has Boost installed, php artisan boost:install (or boost:update --discover) picks them up automatically, teaching AI coding agents Mesh's conventions — component scaffolding, ID matching, entangle modes, and slots.

Requirements

PHP 8.2+, Laravel 11+
Livewire 4
Node with Vite (host app)

License

MIT

Why an alias instead of npm?

The frontend lives in the Composer package so the PHP and JS ship together and can never drift in version. The @mesh alias points Vite at vendor/ethanbarlo/mesh/resources/js. There is no separate npm install step for the runtime.

Component ids

A component's id is a simple string, derived identically on both sides. The PHP component() method derives it from the class name relative to App\Mesh (App\Mesh\Counter → Counter, App\Mesh\Forms\Input → Forms/Input), and the JS registry derives the same id from the folder path under the fixed resources/js/mesh directory. Because make:mesh StudlyCases both the class segments and the folder names, the two always agree. See building components for details.

Mesh Laravel Package