Reactist

Open source React components made with ❤️ by Doist.

Check out our live demo. It includes all currently implemented components plus a live playground to interact with them in different states.

How to use reactist

You can add Reactist to your project by installing it from npm:

npm install @doist/reactist

If you prefer to include static files grab the minified build from the dist folder.

Changelog

You can find our changelog here.

Development

First clone the repository to your local machine by running:

git clone [email protected]:Doist/reactist.git

We identified two major modes of development for Reactist. First, running an interactive storybook and see the changes you make to a component in an isolated environment. This is especially helpful when developing new components. And second, improving existing components in real-life applications.

Storybook

For the first development mode run:

npm run storybook

This boots up a development server with hot reloading on http://localhost:6006. You can iterate on the components in the existing stories or add a completely new one.

Inside your application

For the second development mode you can leverage npm link. First run:

npm run build-watch

this will update the build artifacts whenever you change something.

In your real application you need to first delete the current @doist/reactist dependency and then link to your local one.

cd ~/your-app
# delete current reactist dependency
rm -rf ./node_modules/@doist/reactist

# link local reactist version
npm link ../reactist

The relative path to reactist may need to be changed to match your local environment.

To undo the changes and switch back to the reactist version from npm do the following:

cd ~/your-app
# first remove linked reactist dependency
rm -rf ./node_modules/@doist/reactist

# re-install reactist from npm (-E avoids updating the version / package-lock.json)
npm install -E @doist/reactist

Development tips and tricks

Independent of the development you operate in to produce a new build (e.g. before submitting a PR) run:

npm run build

Note: This will not update the docs. In case you want to update the docs you need to run:

npm run build-storybook

You can run our eslint checks with

npm run check

It is mandatory to fix all linting errors before you make a pull request.

Tip: You can fix most of the errors automatically by running:

npm run check -- --fix

Testing

Tests are executed with Jest or by running:

npm run test

During development you may find it beneficial to continuously execute the tests. This works by running:

npm run test-watch

This also prints the current test coverage.

MacOS users might need to upgrade watchman with brew install watchman when experiencing troubles with the watch mode. See this issue for details: jestjs/jest#1767