@ebay/ebayui-core

eBayUI Core

Collection of Marko widgets; considered to be the core building blocks for all eBay components, pages & apps.

Requirements

• Node.js
• Marko (v3+)
• eBay Skin (v6+)

Note:
Marko v3 requires Marko Widgets v6
Marko v4 requires Marko Widgets v7

Principles

The eBayUI components are Marko custom tags that follow the core principles of HTML. For example:

• Input attributes can only be of type String or Boolean
• State can be manipulated directly from the DOM node
• Events are fired through both Marko and the DOM

For more information, please read Building a UI Component in 2017 and Beyond.

Browser Policy

All components are developed and tested cross-browser using BrowserStack, in accordance with our official eBay Browser Policy.

Accessibility (A11Y)

We take accessibility very seriously. Very seriously indeed. Therefore all components are built in accordance to the eBay MIND Patterns. These patterns, in turn, build on from the specifications provided by the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices.

Components are built in a layered, progressively enhanced fashion, utilizing the following resources:

• Bones (HTML)
• eBay Skin (CSS)
• MakeupJS (JavaScript)

Each layer does its bit to enforce and enhance accessibility. We consider this level of support to be one of our chief selling points, and we hope you do too!

Components

• ebay-breadcrumb
• ebay-button
• ebay-carousel
• ebay-checkbox

• ebay-dialog
• ebay-icon
• ebay-infotip
• ebay-menu
• ebay-notice
• ebay-pagination
• ebay-radio
• ebay-select
• ebay-switch
• ebay-tab
• ebay-textbox
• ebay-tooltip
• ebay-tourtip

Getting Started

The eBayUI core components are available as the @ebay/ebayui-core package on NPM.

Use npm or yarn to add the package dependency to your project:

yarn add @ebay/ebayui-core

Custom Tags

Once the package dependency is added, the eBay customs tags are now available for use in your Marko templates. For example, to use an ebay-menu component:

template.marko

<ebay-menu text="Sort" type="radio">
    <ebay-menu-item>Price</ebay-menu-item>
    <ebay-menu-item>Time</ebay-menu-item>
    <ebay-menu-item>Distance</ebay-menu-item>
</ebay-menu>

On Marko v3, remember to include the component's resources in your browser.json file.

browser.json

{
    "dependencies": [
        "@ebay/ebayui-core/ebay-menu"
    ]
}

Attributes

Attributes provide initial state for a component. We can see that the menu has text and type attributes:

template.marko

<ebay-menu text="Sort" type="radio">
    <ebay-menu-item>Price</ebay-menu-item>
    <ebay-menu-item>Time</ebay-menu-item>
    <ebay-menu-item>Distance</ebay-menu-item>
</ebay-menu>

Some attributes are stateful and can be updated via the DOM. The text attribute, for example:

var menu = document.querySelector('.menu');
menu.text = 'Sortieren';

Pass-Through Attributes

HTML attributes can be used on any component, and they will be passed through to the most prominent tag of the component. The most prominent tag is usually the root, but individual components will note if it varies for specific cases.

Example of static usage:

<ebay-button id="my-button"/>

For using pass-through attributes dynamically, they should be sent through the html-attributes attribute:

<!-- data.htmlAttributes = { id: 'my-button' } -->
<ebay-button html-attributes=data.htmlAttributes/>

Static and dynamic pass-through attributes can be used simulatenously (html-attributes takes precedence in conflicts):

<!-- data.htmlAttributes = { id: 'my-button' } -->
<ebay-button html-attributes=data.htmlAttributes type="submit"/>

Events

Events can be handled via the DOM. For example, the menu emits a menu-change event:

menu.addEventListener('menu-change', onMenuChange);

Events can also be handled using Marko syntax:

template.marko

<ebay-menu text="Sort" type="radio" on-change("onMenuChange")>
    <ebay-menu-item>Price</ebay-menu-item>
    <ebay-menu-item>Time</ebay-menu-item>
    <ebay-menu-item>Distance</ebay-menu-item>
</ebay-menu>

Note: when using DOM events, you should also handle event destruction and delegation as needed.

Releases & Milestones

For upcoming roadmap and release history, please refer to our releases and milestones pages.

Versioning

The ebayui-core package follows strict Semantic Versioning.

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH:

• MAJOR version is incremented when we make incompatible API changes
• MINOR version is incremented when we add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner
• PATCH version is incremented when we make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Issues

Please use our issues page to ask questions, report issues or submit feature requests.

To help track your issue, our admins will assign it with one or more coloured labels:

• Black: Issue Type (e.g. bug, question, test case)
• White: Resolution (e.g. wont fix, invalid, duplicate)
• Gray: Status (e.g. backlog, in progress, help wanted)
• Red: Blocker (e.g. dependency, discussion, design)
• Green: Module (e.g. button, radio, dialog)
• Blue: Aspect (e.g. build, documentation, website)
• Yellow: Semver Guidance (e.g. breaking change, backwards compatible)
• Purple: Sprint (e.g. sprint 1, sprint 2, etc)

Contributing

Looking to contribute to eBay UI? Please visit our contributing page for more information.

License

Copyright (c) 2018 eBay Inc.

Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.