Build element from existing gui object suggestion

[BlueMond]

I am new to Roact, so correct me if I have any misunderstandings of the library, but I noticed there doesn't seem to be a built in way to create an element from an existing roblox gui object, in the case where you would want to prebuild your GUIs in roblox studio and use them as a template for a Roact based gui library.

I suggest that the library is extended to include this functionality. I have not tested this code, but I am attempting to do it in my code, using a function like this:

local function createRoactElement(guiObject)
    local props = {}

    for k, v in pairs(guiObject) do
        if typeof(v) ~= "function" and k ~= "Parent" and k ~= "ClassName" then
            props[k] = v
        end
    end

    return Roact.createElement(guiObject.ClassName, props)
end

[BlueMond]

I'm now realizing that you cannot access the table of an instance directly like this. It would have to use a library such as this: https://github.com/astriaInight/GetProperties

This library uses the latest API dump from roblox to obtain the properties. It is also capable of filtering out properties set to their default, ignoring any assignment of those properties, as it would be redundant.