Catalyst: Tokens

This project contains all design tokens for the Catalyst design system.

Tokens are being transformed using Amazon Style Dictionary.

Style Dictionary is a build system that allows you to define styles once, in a way for any platform or language to consume. A single place to create and edit your styles, and a single command exports these rules to all the places you need them - iOS, Android, CSS, JS, HTML, sketch files, style documentation, or anything you can think of. It is available as a CLI through npm, but can also be used like any normal node module if you want to extend its functionality.

Getting started

Install @haiilo/catalyst-tokens in your Node.js powered apps with the npm package:

npm install @haiilo/catalyst-tokens

Contributing

If you want to add or update tokens in this repository, please make sure to adhere to the design token structure outlined at Design token structure.

Package management

This project is using npm as a package manager. This is especially important if you want to add new dependencies to a project and fail to provide an updated package-lock.json. This will cause the CI build to fail. If dependencies in the package lock do not match those in package.json, npm will exit with an error in the CI build, instead of updating the package lock.

Build

Run npm run build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist directory. Artifacts will automatically be generated on the basis of the output configuration defined in config.js.

Publishing

The library can be published by running npm publish. However, the preferred way to publish a new version of the library is via the CI setup. A new version of the library will automatically be published to npm when pushing a new tag on the main branch. To simplyfy this process, you can use the following npm commands:

• npm run release:major releases a new major version
• npm run release:minor releases a new minor version
• npm run release:patch releases a new patch version

These commands will automatically increase the version number in the package.json and package-lock.json, commit the changed files, create a corresponding git tag and push everything to the remote branch. This will then automatically publish a new library version.

License

The license is available within the main repository in the LICENSE file.