GOV.UK Shareable Styles

This repository provides a framework agnostic theme for intended use alongside any object or tagged template literal framework.

It contains properties and helpers, extracted directly from the SASS-authored govuk-frontend library. If you're looking for the components, click here.

The styles and variables included inside the govuk-frontend are automatically extracted at build time and not hardcoded into this library.

Getting Started

Add the library to your project as a dependency using:

npm i TODO --save

If you need access to the GDS font and crown images, ensure that the contents of the assets/ folder (packaged inside the library) are copied over to your build destination. This can be achieved by adding a postbuild or postinstall script hook to your package.json.

{
  "scripts": {
    "postbuild": "@dwp/components-theme copy --destination ./build/static/"
  }
}

Afterwards, be sure to add the asset paths for the library to your .gitignore file, for example:

/path/to/assets/fonts
/path/to/assets/images

The library is implemented to ensure that it is easy to take advantage of tagged template literals, including numerous helpers designed at producing strings of CSS compatible with various pre-processing frameworks.

Usage

const { typography } = require('@dwp/components-theme');
// OR: import { typography } from '@dwp/components-theme';

console.log(typography.headings.xl());

Using the XL typography heading helper as the example above demonstrates, produces the following valid css string:

Note how the helper makes zero assumptions about the class name or identifier. This responsibility is left to the implementing framework or library.

font-weight: 700;
font-family: 'nta', 'Arial', sans-serif;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;

@media print {
  font-family: sans-serif;
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 320px) {
  font-size: 32px;
  line-height: 35px;
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 641px) {
  font-size: 48px;
  line-height: 50px;
}

Afterwards, we can begin to introduce ES6 tagged template literals to compile more complex components from these base style helpers.

const theme = require('TODO');

const str = tagged`
  ${theme.typography.headings.m()}
  ${theme.spacing.property('padding', { top: 8, right: 7, bottom: 6, left: 5 })}
  margin: ${() => theme.spacing.unit(4)};
`;

The above example produces the following str value:

font-weight: 700;
font-family: 'nta', 'Arial', sans-serif;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;

@media print {
  font-family: sans-serif
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 320px) {
  font-size: 18px;
  line-height: 20px;
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 641px) {
  font-size: 24px;
  line-height: 30px;
}

padding-top: 30px;
padding-right: 25px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 15px;

@media only screen and (min-width: 641px) {
  padding-top: 50px;
  padding-right: 40px;
  padding-bottom: 30px;
  padding-left: 25px;
}

margin: 15px