@volvo-cars/ced-os-react-components

Support Web Components

This a component library created to standardize the creation and articulation of support article data provided via an API in JSON. Meaning when the new API provides content in JSON, it will have a structure that maps to these components. That way the data from the backend will dictate the structure and not the actual components.

The components can be viewed in this Storybook

Development

Getting Started

• npm install
• npm run dev to run storybook
• npm test to run tests

Publish

The library is automatically published to Github packages and NPM when a new tag in the format v.X.X.X is pushed to Github.

The steps to publish are:

1. build: npm run build
2. bump version. Use npm version <major>.<minor>.<patch> to bump version

Pre-releases

Sometimes it may be useful to create a pre-release version for testing, these are the steps needed (replace "major" in the commands with patch|minor|major ad needed)

1. Running npm version premajor --preid=rc will add a prefix to a new major, eg. 2.0.0-rc.0
2. For each iteration use npm version prerelease to create new pre-release version with bumped prefix, eg 2.0.0-rc.0
3. To promote the pre-release to a release run npm version major

Usage

The library is published as an NPM package and also a Github package.

Install from NPM package registry

Run npm install @volvo-cars/ced-os-react-components.

Install from Github package registry

To be able to install the package from the Github registry some configuration and Github authentication is needed.

Add a file called .npmrc to your project and paste the lines below into it to configure NPM to load @volvo-cars packages from the Github registry. The second line references an environment variable on your machine: VCC_GITHUB_PACKAGES_TOKEN.

@volvo-cars:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com/
//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${VCC_GITHUB_PACKAGES_TOKEN}

The value of VCC_GITHUB_PACKAGES_TOKEN should be a Github Personal Access token with at least "read:packages" permissions.

If you use the dotenv package in your project it's also possible to define the variable in the .env file. In which case you need to do dotenv npm install

Example usage

Themes and styles

• Make sure the fonts needed are loaded for the respective theme, e. "Polestar Unica" for "polestar" and "Volvo Novum" for "volvo" (font is loading not handled by this library)
• Load the styles of the components and base theme @volvo-cars/ced-os-react-components/lib/index.css
• Load the styles of the theme(s) to be used.
  • @volvo-cars/ced-os-react-components/lib/theme-polestar.css
  • @volvo-cars/ced-os-react-components/lib/theme-volvo.css, and add the class
  • Alternatively override custom properties (variables) on .dcs-base-theme in your own styles to create a custom theme (See all variables in lib/theme-base.css).
• The theme classNames are applied automatically - .dcs-base-theme for base styles and if either "volvo" or "polestar" is passed to the theme prop the respective theme className of dcs-volvo-theme or dcs-polestar-theme is set.

JSONArticle

The main entrypoint

Pass JSON article content to the data prop. Set a theme name, and pass an optional config

// ...
import { JSONArticle } from '@volvo-cars/ced-os-react-components';

const Article = ({ articleId, content }) => {
    return (
        
            <JSONArticle data-article-id={articleId} data={content} theme="volvo" config={{ 
              locale: 'en-GB', // optional - will set correct direction based on locale
              linkComponent: (props)=> {/* optional custom link component eg. next/link */}
              icons: {
              // Supply URL:s to icons here if needed
                note: 'some/path/note.svg';
                warning: 'some/path/warning.svg';
                important: 'some/path/important.svg';
              }
            }} />        
    );
};

Standalone

If you want to use the renderer without creating a full JS project, with NPM etc, you can use the standalone solution.

Example here.

Include the standalone-example.iife.js and standalone-example.css files found in the npm package under @volvo-cars/ced-onboarding-support-components/lib, in the HTML template file, make sure to make the following replacements:

• article: null must be replaced with article: '<article>', where article is the (JSON representation) of an article. It must contain an externalId. It must also contain the content of the document, i.e. a title and optionally also a description and body. These fields may be directly on the article object itself, or nested inside of article.content or article.jsonContent.
• articleLinkClicked: null may be replaced with articleLinkClicked: function(articleId, targetId) { ... }, where the function will be called whenever the user clicks a link to another article. The function takes two arguments: the ID of the article being linked to, as well as (optionally) the ID of the target element (will typically just be null). If articleLinkClicked is left as null, it will default to working as a normal link, such that if the current URL is foo/bar/articleId1, and the user clicks a link to an article with ID articleId2, it will navigate to foo/bar/articleId2 (or foo/bar/articleId2#targetId, if targetId is not null).
• linkClicked: null may be replaced with linkClicked: function(href) { ... }, where the function will be called whenever the user clicks on an external link. The function takes one argument: the URL of the link target. If linkClicked is left as null, it will default to simply navigating to the link.