@apollo/chakra-helpers

Apollo Chakra UI helpers

This package contains Chakra UI theme options that are shared between DX properties. This makes it easy to set up a theme with consistent color palettes, fonts, and component styles.

• Installation
• Usage
  • Color palettes
  • Footer configuration
  • EmbeddableExplorer

Installation

This package has peer dependencies on @apollo/space-kit and @chakra-ui/react. Make sure those packages are already installed in your project, and then install this package.

npm i @apollo/chakra-helpers

Usage

The easiest way to set up Chakra UI in a Gatsby website is by using the @chakra-ui/gatsby-plugin package.

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: ["@chakra-ui/gatsby-plugin"],
};

Next, use Gatsby component shadowing to shadow the default theme.js file in the plugin. Use the extendTheme function to override default Chakra theme values and export your new theme.

// src/@chakra-ui/gatsby-plugin/theme.js
import { fonts, components } from "@apollo/chakra-helpers";
import { extendTheme } from "@chakra-ui/react";

const theme = extendTheme({
  fonts,
  components,
});

export default theme;

Color palettes

This package also provides two functions for creating Chakra UI color palettes from Space Kit ones.

Space Kit's color palettes use names ranging from lightest to darkest and contain five colors for monochrome palettes and seven colors for all other colors. Chakra UI, on the other hand, features palettes with 10 numerical variants ranging from 50 to 900.

To account for these differences, we need to mix Space Kit colors to fill in the gaps between different numerical keys in their corresponding Chakra palettes.

import { colors } from "@apollo/space-kit/colors";
import { createGrayPalette, createColorPalette } from "@apollo/chakra-helpers";

const { silver, grey, midnight, indigo } = colors;

const theme = extendTheme({
  colors: {
    gray: createGrayPalette(silver, grey, midnight),
    indigo: createColorPalette(indigo),
  },
});

Footer configuration

This package exports an object that helps configure footers on all Apollo properties. Each category contains a title field and an array of link objects with their own titles and URLs.

// Footer.js
import {footerConfig} from '@apollo/chakra-helpers';

export default function Footer() {
  return (
    <nav>
      {footerConfig.map(({links, title}, index) => (
        <ul key={index}>
          {links.map((link, index) => (
            <li key={index}>
              <a href={link.href}>{link.text}</a>
            </li>
          )}
        </ul>
      )}
    </nav>
  )
}

This package also exports the individual parts that make up the default footerConfig. These can be composed together to create your own custom footers.

import {
  communityCategory,
  companyCategory,
  helpCategory,
  productCategory,
  whyApolloCategory
} from '@apollo/chakra-helpers/lib/footer';

const customFooterConfig = [
  communityCategory,
  helpCategory,
  whyApolloCategory
];

For your convenince, there are also exported Category and Link interfaces for type safety and intellisense in TypeScript projects.

import {Category, Link} from '@apollo/chakra-helpers/lib/footer';

const customLink: Link = {
  title: "A Custom Link",
  href: "https://www.acustomlink.com"
};

const customCategory: Category = {
  title: "My Custom Category",
  links: [customLink]
}

EmbeddableExplorer

You can embed Apollo Studio Explorer in your Chakra sites using this component. It respects the selected color mode in your app.

import {EmbeddableExplorer} from '@apollo/chakra-helpers';

<EmbeddableExplorer />

The component can be configured using the following props. No props are required to use this component, and it default to serving up the Apollo fullstack demo API with an example query.

Name	Type	Description	Default value
graphRef	string	The graph ref for the public variant you want to use the embedded Explorer with	Apollo-Fullstack-Demo-o3tsz8@current
endpointUrl	string	The endpoint URL of the public variant you want to use the embedded Explorer with	https://apollo-fullstack-tutorial.herokuapp.com/
document	string	A URI-encoded operation to populate in the Explorer's editor on load.	See the source code

Publishing changes

We use Changesets to automate the publishing of new versions of this package to the NPM registry.

To publish a new version, first add a changeset to your PR using npx changeset add. Follow the prompts in your terminal to select the version bump for this release, and add a message describing what is being changed.

After this PR gets merged to main, a new PR will be opened automatically that increments the package version. When this PR is merged, a GitHub action will be run that publishes the package to NPM.

Working on Chakra Helpers & the Docs at the same time

1. Run npm workspace @apollo/chakra-helpers start
2. Run npm run start:local in another terminal

Now your local docs will use your local chakra changes