@microsoft/fast-components
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@microsoft/fast-components is a library of Web Components that composes the exports of @microsoft/fast-foundation with stylesheets aligning to the FAST design language. This composition step registers a custom element. See the quick start to get started using the components.
To install the @microsoft/fast-components library, use either npm or yarn as follows:
npm install --save @microsoft/fast-components @microsoft/fast-foundation
yarn add @microsoft/fast-components @microsoft/fast-foundation
Within your JavaScript or TypeScript code, import and register desired components with the DesignSystem:
import { DesignSystem } from "@microsoft/fast-foundation"
import { fastAnchor } from '@microsoft/fast-components';
DesignSystem.getOrCreate().register(
fastAnchor()
);
Alternatively you can easily register all components:
import { DesignSystem } from "@microsoft/fast-foundation"
import { allComponents } from '@microsoft/fast-components';
DesignSystem.getOrCreate().register(
Object.values(allComponents).map(definition => definition())
);
Looking for a setup that integrates with a particular front-end framework or bundler? Check out our integration docs.
A pre-bundled script that contains all APIs needed to use FAST Foundation is available on CDN. You can use this script by adding type="module" to the script element and then importing from the CDN.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@microsoft/fast-components/dist/fast-components.min.js"></script>
</head>
<!-- ... -->
</html>
The markup above always references the latest release. When deploying to production, you will want to ship with a specific version. Here's an example of the markup for that:
<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@microsoft/fast-components@2.16.0/dist/fast-components.min.js"></script>
:::note For simplicity, examples throughout the documentation will assume the library has been installed from NPM, but you can always replace the import location with the CDN URL. :::
To start the component development environment, run yarn start.
Storybook will watch modules for changes and hot-reload the module when necessary. This is usually great but poses a problem when the module being hot-reloaded defines a custom element. A custom element name can only be defined by the CustomElementsRegistry once, so reloading a module that defines a custom element will attempt to re-register the custom element name, throwing an error because the name has already been defined. This error will manifest with the following message:
Failed to execute 'define' on 'CustomElementRegistry': the name "my-custom-element-name" has already been used with this registry
This is a known issue and will indicate that you need to refresh the page. We're working on surfacing a more instructive error message for this case.
FAQs
A library of Web Components
We found that @microsoft/fast-components demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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