@bolttech/frontend-foundations

Frontend-Foundations

Summary

On this documentation you will find the following topics:

• Description
• Requirements
• Installation
• Before you start
  • Screen breakpoints and Media Queries
  • Default Theme
• Components
  • BolttechThemeProvider
  • Row
  • Column
  • Center
  • Typography
• Helper classes
  • Colors
  • Margin
  • Padding
  • Positioning
• Generating your own theme

Description

The foundations are a set of components provided for developers to easily replicate the base used by the Designers to place, align, style and structure your pages.

It contains a strict series of components that should always be used in your development, as it follows the Bolttech Guidelines for designing pages.

Requirements

• Node.js 16.0 +
• React 18.2 +
• Styled-components 6.0 +

Installation

Install the frontend-foundations package on your project, with the following command:

npm i @bolttech/frontend-foundations

For development environments:

git clone [e-mail]:gofrank/frontend-foundations.git
cd frontend-foundations
npm install
npm run storybook

Before you start

Before you start, you should be aware of two points that are the base of this project. Those points were defined in conjunction with the Design Team to create a basic structure that should be followed everytime designing and developing new components and pages. Those points are:

Screen breakpoints and Media Queries

All of the components inside the foundations follow our breakpoint rules. Those rules are also used later for you to provide specific sizes for some components depending on which screen breakpoint the screen currently is. Those breakpoints are:

Breakpoint	Screen Size
XS	<= 413px
SM	414px - 767px
MD	768px - 1439px
LG	>= 1440px

With that said, you should import our media-queries based on those breakpoints when developing pages so you can better follow the grid guidelines.

Example:

import styled from 'styled-components';
import { MediaQueries } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

export const MyComponent = styled.div`
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  background-color: red;


  @media ${MediaQueries.LG} {
    background-color: green;
  }

  @media ${MediaQueries.SM} {
    flex-direction:column
  }
`

Default Theme

The foundations comes with a preset of colors, paddings, spacings, typography and tokens, these presets are the default theme or bolttech theme.

Here is the structure of theme:

type bolttechTheme = {
  colors: ColorsType;
  spacing: SpacingType;
  typography: TypographyType;
  effects: EffectType;
  components: Record<string, unknown>;
  tokens?: Record<string, unknown>;
};

Components

BolttechThemeProvider

The BolttechThemeProvider component is a extension of the ThemeProvider from styled-components. It allows you to inject a theme into all styled-components bellow it in the component tree.

Our ThemeProvider differs from the styled-components one because we expect a theme with a defined structure, and also, have a default theme with Bolttech styles.

If you want, you can import our default theme and the theme type and use it as you wish.

Example:

import { BolttechThemeProvider, bolttechTheme } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

const MyApp = () => (
  <BolttechThemeProvider theme={bolttechTheme}>
    <App />
  </BolttechThemeProvider>
);

export default MyApp;

Important: If you plan to use any of the components bellow, you need to wrap your application with the BolttechThemeProvider as our components use design tokens with a pre-defined structure, so you need to provide a theme with the type BolttechThemeType.

Box

The Box component is a versatile container component for React applications, designed to provide flexible styling and layout options. It accepts various props to customize its appearance and behavior.

React Box Component

Overview

The Box component is a versatile container component for React applications, designed to provide flexible styling and layout options. It accepts various props to customize its appearance and behavior.

Usage

import { Box } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

// ...

const MyComponent = () => {
  return (
    <Box
      sizes={{ xs: 100, sm: 100, md: 100, lg: 100 }} /* Optional */
      className="flex pt-l"
      removeGridPadding
      removeGridGap
    >
      {/* Your content goes here */}
    </Box>
  );
};

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
sizes(Optional)	{ xs?: number; sm?: number; md?: number; lg?: number }	undefined	Specifies the size of the component at different breakpoints.
className	`string	string[]`	undefined
removeGridPadding	boolean	false	If set to true, removes the default padding applied by grid class name.
removeGridGap	boolean	false	If set to true, removes the default gap applied by grid class name.

Ref forwarding

The Box component supports ref forwarding. You can use the ref prop to get a reference to the underlying div element.

const myRef = useRef();

<Box ref={myRef}>Content</Box>;

Row

The Row component is basicly a div that wraps the components as a flex container, applying the base styles of our Design Grid System.

It has a maximum width of 1440px, a gap between columns and paddings on both sides of the row. The value of the gap and paddings are based on the Breakpoints of our grid system.

Breakpoint	Gap	Padding
XS	flexbox.XS	flexbox.S
SM	flexbox.S	flexbox.L
MD	flexbox.M	flexbox['2XL']
LG	flexbox.M	flexbox['3XL']

Props

Prop	Description	Type	Required	Default
fullWidth	remove row paddings	boolean	false	false
fullHeight	add 100% height	boolean	false	false
center	add margin 0 auto	boolean	false	false
className	extra css classes	string	false	undefined
children	children component	ReactElement or ReactElement[]	false	undefined

Example:

import { Row } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

<Row fullWidth={true} fullHeight={true} center={false} className="mb-xs">
  <ChildComponent />
</Row>;

Column

The Column component is a component which uses percentage of width to define the size of the container. Designers and devs need to be aware that each screen breakpoint have a size to be filled. The possibilities of each breakpoint will be available below:

Breakpoint	Allowed Sizes
XS	100%, 75%, 66.666%, 50%, 33.333%, 25%, 0%
SM	100%, 75%, 66.666%, 50%, 33.333%, 25%, 20%, 16.666%, 0%
MD and LG	100%, 75%, 66.666%, 50%, 33.333%, 25%, 20%, 16.666%, 0%

Props

Prop	Description	Type	Required	Default
children	children component	ReactElement or ReactElement[]	false	undefined
className	string containing a list of classes that need to be applied into the Column	string	false	undefined
size	object containing the size of the column for each breakpoint	Object	true

Example:

import { Column, Row } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

const MyComponent = () => (
  <Row>
    <Column size={{ xs: '100%', sm: '33.333%', md: '50%', ld: '50%' }}>Hello</Column>
    <Column size={{ xs: '100%', sm: '66.666%', md: '50%', lg: '50%' }}>World</Column>
  </Row>
);

Center

The Center component is a basic component that wraps it's children component and centers it.

Example:

import { Center, Column, Row } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

const MyComponent = () => (
  <Row>
    <Center>
      <Column size={{ xs: '50%', sm: '50%', md: '50%', lg: '50%' }}>World</Column>
    </Center>
  </Row>
);

Typography

The Typography is a text component that can assume a lot of sizes determined by the design team based on the tokens inside the typography file under the theme folder. Please provide a valid combination of variant and type based on this file.

Props

Prop	Description	Type	Required	Default
type	type of the typography	string	true	body
variant	style variant	string	true	primary
text	if you need to provide your text as prop	boolean	false	undefined
className	extra css classes	string	false	undefined
children	children component	ReactElement or ReactElement[]	false	undefined

Note: Depending on what type and variant you provide, the Typography component will render a different HTML Element.

Type	Variant	Element
headings	h1, h1Light	h1
headings	h2	h2
headings	h3	h3
headings	h4	h4
body	primary, secondary, tertiary	p
label	primary, secondary, tertiary	label

Example:

import { Typography } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

const MyComponent = () => (
  <Typography variant="primary" type="body">
    Welcome to bolttech!
  </Typography>
);

Also, the Typography component can render links inside of its text. To render links, you should pass it as you would in a normal Markdown file, for example:

const MyComponent = () => (
  <Typography variant="primary" type="body">
    normal text [text to render as link](https://google.com)(blank|download)
  </Typography>
);

Note that the last parameter is optional. If you dont pass it, it will open the link on the same tab

Helper classes

To help the development and styling of your pages, we decided to add helper classes for colors, paddings and margins as we know that creating styled components just to add those properties is not a fun task.

All of those classes are created based on the colors, spacing and flexbox properties of the tokens provided by your theme configuration

With that said, we have a basic set of classes that we provide:

Colors

Based on the structure of the theme, we create classes with the prefixes of text-, bg- and fill- and append the colors provided by your theme. So for example, if you have a theme with the following colors:

colors: {
  content: {
    accent: tokens.cyan['700'],
    base: tokens.navy['700'],
    subtle: tokens.navy['500'],
    weak: tokens.navy['400'],
    // ...
  }
}

We will inject the following classes on your global styles:

.text-content-accent {
  color: #00bac7;
}
.bg-content-accent {
  background-color: #00bac7;
}
.fill-content-accent {
  fill: #00bac7;
}

.text-content-base {
  color: #170f4f;
}
.bg-content-base {
  background-color: #170f4f;
}
.fill-content-base {
  fill: #170f4f;
}
/* ... */

Margin

Based on the structure of the theme, we create classes with the prefixes of mt-, mb-, ml-, mr-,mh-,mv-, and m-, and append the margins provided by your theme. So for example, if you have a theme with the following margins:

spacing: {
  flexbox: {
    XXS: '8px',
    XS: '16px',
    S: '24px',
    M: '32px',
    // ...
  },
}

We will inject the following classes on your global styles:

.mt-xxs: {
  margin-top: 8px;
}
.mb-xxs {
  margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.ml-xxs {
  margin-left: 8px;
}
.mr-xxs {
  margin-right: 8px;
}
.mh-xxs {
  margin-left: 8px;
  margin-right: 8px;
}
.mv-xxs {
  margin-top: 8px;
  margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.m-xxs {
  margin: 8px;
}

Padding

Based on the structure of the theme, we create classes with the prefixes of pt-, pb-, pl-, pr-,ph-,pv-, and p-, and append the paddings provided by your theme. So for example, if you have a theme with the following paddings:

spacing: {
  padding: {
    NONE: '0px',
    XXXS: '2px',
    XXS: '3px',
    XS: '4px',
    S: '8px',
    // ...
  },
}

We will inject the following classes on your global styles:

.pt-xxs: {
  padding-top: 8px;
}
.pb-xxs {
  padding-bottom: 8px;
}
.pl-xxs {
  padding-left: 8px;
}
.pr-xxs {
  padding-right: 8px;
}
.ph-xxs {
  padding-left: 8px;
  padding-right: 8px;
}
.pv-xxs {
  padding-top: 8px;
  padding-bottom: 8px;
}
.p-xxs {
  padding: 8px;
}

/* ... */

Positioning

We also wanted to provide an easy way for people to position elements on the page without having to create custom styled components just for positioning. So we also inject those classes on your global styles:

.flex {
  display: flex;
}
.flex-row {
  flex-direction: row;
}
.flex-row-reverse {
  flex-direction: row-reverse;
}
.flex-column {
  flex-direction: column;
}
.flex-column-reverse {
  flex-direction: column-reverse;
}
.flex-shrink-1 {
  flex-shrink: 1;
}
.flex-shrink-0 {
  flex-shrink: 0;
}
.flex-grow {
  flex: 1;
}
.flex-grow-1 {
  flex-grow: 1;
}
.flex-grow-0 {
  flex-grow: 0;
}
.flex-basis-0 {
  flex-basis: 0;
}
.flex-basis-1 {
  flex-basis: auto;
}
.align-start {
  align-items: flex-start;
}
.align-center {
  align-items: center;
}
.align-right {
  align-items: flex-end;
}
.align-self-stretch {
  align-self: stretch;
}
.align-self-center {
  align-self: center;
}
.align-self-start {
  align-self: start;
}
.align-self-end {
  align-self: end;
}
.justify-left {
  justify-content: flex-start;
}
.justify-center {
  justify-content: center;
}
.justify-right {
  justify-content: flex-end;
}
.justify-between {
  justify-content: space-between;
}
.justify-evenly {
  justify-content: space-evenly;
}
.justify-arround {
  justify-content: space-arround;
}
.min-content {
  width: min-content:
}
.max-content {
  width: max-content:
}

/* ... */

Responsive

On the foundations, we also provide you a way to style your components based on screen sizes, to deal with responsiveness. For every class that you use to style your components, you can also target a specific screen size, simply adding the prefix of the screen size you want to target on the class.

Our approach is mobile first so be aware that if you provide a class without any prefix, it will apply to all the screen size, but, for example, if you provide a class called md:pt-xs it will apply the class pt-xs to screen sizes md and larger!. If you want to add only to a specific screen size, you would need to add another class targeting screen sizes bigger than the one you are targeting.

<Row className="pb-m sm:pb-s md:pb-xs lg:pb-xxs md:flex-grow-0 md:justify-between">
  <Column size={{ xs: '100%', sm: '33.333%', md: '50%', ld: '50%' }}>Hello</Column>
  <Column size={{ xs: '100%', sm: '66.666%', md: '50%', lg: '50%' }}>World</Column>
</Row>

Generating/updating your own theme

If you need to update your theme or create a new one, please take a look at our theme generator cli tool.