@corva/ui

@corva/ui

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This repo contains components/utils which are shared for Corva UI apps.

When you need some library changes

Currently, @corva/ui library is owned by the Dev Center team, but is developed by every Corva FE developer. So, if you need to make some update in it - you can do it by yourself. For small updates - just make a PR - and someone from the Dev Center team will review it.

If it's something pretty big - it's better to reach out someone from the Dev Center team first, to tell what you need and get feedback how to better do it. Otherwise - you risk that your huge PR on which you worked a week can be rejected because it can be not consistent with the rest of the lib

Release & deploy of the library

How to bump the version? What should be the branch name? And other more advanced cases, like release/hotfixes. The guideline for all of these cases can be found here (Corva access required)

Stories for every public component

Every public @corva/ui component has a corresponding .stories.js file that describes the component. When you work with public @corva/ui components - please also update it's stories.js file when it's necessary

AI-Assisted Development (MCP Server)

@corva/ui ships an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes the component library to AI coding agents. Setup supports Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex CLI. The server provides tools for searching components and viewing component, hook, theme, constants, and API client documentation.

If you just generated a fresh project with the latest create-corva-app, MCP is already configured for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex CLI — you can skip this section. (Older projects scaffolded before MCP was added to the template still need the setup below.)

Quick setup (run from your project root):

npx -p @corva/ui corva-ui-mcp-setup

If .mcp.json, .cursor/mcp.json, or .codex/config.toml already exists, the command extends it — existing MCP server entries are preserved, and only the corva-ui entry is added or updated.

See MCP Docs for the full list of tools, per-IDE setup (local / monorepo / global), and troubleshooting.

Figma Code Connect

Code Connect links corva-ui components to their Figma design nodes so that Dev Mode in Figma shows real, production-ready code snippets instead of auto-generated stubs.

Commands

Command	What it does
yarn figma:publish	Publish all Code Connect mappings to Figma. Safe to run multiple times — upserts per node, does not touch other nodes' mappings.
yarn figma:publish-file <path>	Publish a single Code Connect file via the native CLI --file flag. In this repo, each file maps one node.
yarn figma:dry-run	Validate all .figma.tsx files locally without publishing — use before merging
yarn figma:dry-run-file <path>	Validate a single Code Connect file locally via the native CLI --file flag.
yarn figma:unpublish	Remove Code Connect mappings from Figma. Safe to run multiple times — second run is a no-op (logs a warning if nothing was found to delete).
yarn figma:unpublish-file <path>	Unpublish a single Code Connect file via the native CLI --file flag.
yarn figma:unpublish-node-force '<URL>'	Force-remove a mapping via the REST API. Use when the Figma component has been deleted and unpublish fails.

Creating a new mapping

Each component that has a Figma counterpart gets a .figma.tsx file next to its source:

src/componentsV2/Button/Button.figma.tsx
src/components/StatusBadge/StatusBadge.figma.tsx
src/icons/customIcons/icons/Pin.figma.tsx

Minimal template:

import figma from '@figma/code-connect';
import { MyComponent } from './MyComponent';

figma.connect(
  MyComponent,
  'https://www.figma.com/design/FILEKEY/FILE-NAME?node-id=NODE_ID',
  {
    props: {
      // map Figma properties → component props
    },
    example: ({ ...props }) => <MyComponent {...props} />,
  }
);

Use yarn figma:dry-run to verify the file is valid before publishing.

Publishing / unpublishing a single component

To publish or validate a single mapping, use the CLI --file flag:

yarn figma:publish-file src/componentsV2/Button/Button.figma.tsx
yarn figma:dry-run-file src/componentsV2/Button/Button.figma.tsx
yarn figma:unpublish-file src/componentsV2/Button/Button.figma.tsx

In this repo, .figma.tsx / .figma.ts files usually contain a single figma.connect(...), but some files may include multiple mappings, so --file operations can affect more than one Figma node.

If the local Code Connect file no longer exists or the Figma component was deleted, use yarn figma:unpublish-node-force '<URL>' to remove the stale mapping directly via the API.

Interactive setup

To scaffold .figma.tsx files for unmapped components:

npx figma connect

This runs a local-only wizard — it creates or modifies .figma.tsx files in the repo but does not publish or delete any existing Figma mappings. Run yarn figma:publish afterwards to push the new files.

Build-time variables

Name	Default Value	Required
REACT_APP_API_URL	https://api.qa.corva.ai	No
REACT_APP_DATA_API_URL	https://data.qa.corva.ai	No

Local development

• yarn storybook will launch local storybook server which is convenient to use for components testing when you work on public components. That's a playground for building public components.
• yarn start will open ExampleApp.js in your browser. That's a playground for building non-public components (such components will be moved from @corva/ui soon)

Link local @corva/ui to your app

Pre-requisite

• Make sure you are using @corva/ui with latest updates from development branch

• If your app is using getWebpackConfig from @corva/ui instead of @corva/dc-platform-shared, migrate it according to this guide

Steps to link your local DC app**

• Run yarn build-dev or yarn build-watch in @corva/ui repo
  *Note: yarn build will not work for linking*

• cd ./dist and run yarn link in @corva/ui dist folder (only first time)

• Run yarn link @corva/ui in your local DC app root folder

• Add following parameters to the config-overrides.js.
  It should avoid the issue of multiple React instances and the MUI styling issue

{
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      react: resolve('./node_modules/react'),
      '@material-ui': resolve('./node_modules/@material-ui'),
    }
  }
}

• Run yarn start in your local DC app root folder

*Note: npm link will not install @corva/ui dependencies in your node modules folder.* If you want to debug a change in @corva/ui dependencies, you should use yarn add file:../corva-ui/dist, this will install new dependencies.

Troubleshooting

Failed to compile.
Module not found: Can't resolve '@corva/ui' in ...

Most likely you need to migrate to @corva/dc-platform-shared for cjs webpack config usage

Error.
Invalid hook call. Hooks can only be called inside of the body of a function component...

In that case, your bundler might “see” two Reacts — one in application folder and one in your library folder. Assuming myapp and mylib are sibling folders, one possible fix is to run npm link ../myapp/node_modules/react from mylib. This should make the library use the application’s React copy.

Or change the webpack configuration in config-overrides.js file in your app. (Don't commit the changes of this file)

{
    resolve: {
        alias: {
            react: path.resolve('./node_modules/react')
        }
    }
}

Material UI styles are corrupted

Add the following parameter to the config-overrides.js file in your app

{
    resolve: {
        alias: {
            '@material-ui': resolve('./node_modules/@material-ui')
        }
    }
}

CI/CD

Stale workflow

To prevent pull request from piling up and save on resources, there is a stale workflow running in this repository. It will automatically run on schedule to mark PR's that have not received any updates in 14 days as stale, marking them with label and leaving a comment. More importantly, preview environment for stale PRs are removed. To "unstale" the PR, you either need to make any change to it, push new commit or just remove the stale label. If for some reason your PR does need to stay not stale for a long time, you can add never-stale label to it.

[!IMPORTANT]
Stale pull requests will be deleted after 180 days!