Example React Component Library

Read more about why we are focusing on creating component libraries and our approach: https://forum.door43.org/t/component-libraries/396

The Stack

• Javascript + React (functional components & hooks).
• MaterialUI for UI/UX baseline design components.
• Styleguidist for Playground Documentation.
• Yarn for dependencies, publishing, and deploying.
• Github + NPM + Github Pages for Hosting.

There are many alternatives to each layer referenced here. However, many of the alternatives add a great deal of complexity to the initial setup and long term maintenance which prevents it from being practical.

How to deploy your own?

Once you have this codebase forked and cloned to your local machine, you can start modifying the codebase. You will need to ensure node.js and yarn are already installed.

Installation and Running the Styleguide Locally

1. Install the npm dependencies with yarn.
2. Run the Styleguide with yarn start.
3. Ensure that the Styleguide is running by visiting localhost:6060 on your web browser.
4. Modify the code and documentation in your code editor and check out the Styleguide.

Setting up NPM Publishing

1. Rename your library:
   • the folder
   • repo on Github
2. Update the package.json:
   • change the name and description of your app
   • change the URLs of your homepage and repository
3. Create an account on npmjs.org if you don't have one already.

Publishing to NPM

The scripts in the package.json file do all of the heavy lifting.

1. Commit and push all changes to your github repo.
2. Run yarn publish:
   • login to NPM using your credentials if asked.
   • enter the new version number using symver.
   • wait for the code to be transpiled and published to NPM.
   • wait for the styleguide to be built and deployed to GHPages.
3. Visit your published library on NPM.
4. Visit your deployed Styleguide on GHPages.

Other Resources

Here's a great writeup that walks you through a slightly different stack: https://itnext.io/how-to-write-your-own-reusable-react-component-library-a57dc7c9a210