@hipo/react-ui-toolkit 🧩

Bakers' React based UI Toolkit

Getting started

First, install the package via npm:

npm install @hipo/react-ui-toolkit

After installing the package you should import the main CSS file to gather the initial styles of the components, and then import the components you want to use in your project.:

import {FormField, Input} from "@hipo/react-ui-toolkit/dist/Input";

// This import required to gather the initial styles of the components
// You can do it while bootstrapping your app
import "@hipo/react-ui-toolkit/dist/main.css";

function LoginForm() {
  return (
    <form>
      <FormField label="E-mail">
        <Input name="email" />
      </FormField>

      <FormField label="Password">
        <Input name="password" type="password" />
      </FormField>

      <Button type="submit">Login</Button>
    </form>
  );
}

How to style components?

Every component holds a minimum amount of CSS. You can modify them via the CSS variables. See _colors.scss and _measurement.scss

Here is a simple example that shows how to customize Button and Input styles by overriding the default CSS variables:

.button {
  // Override the default button styles using CSS variables

  --button-bg: #989898;
  --button-color: black;
}

.input {
  // Override the default input styles using CSS variables

  --default-border-color: black;
}

Development

Storybook is suggested for the development environment. It allows you to see the components in isolation and interact with them. It also supports hot-reloading, i.e. when you change the component, it automatically reloads the component in the browser.

First of all, you need to install the dependencies, in the project root folder, run:

npm install

⚠️ Make sure you are using the exact version of node and npm that are specified in the engines field of package.json file. Otherwise, you may face some unexpected issues.

Storybook

Storybook is a development environment for UI components. It allows you to browse a component library, view the different states of each component, and interactively develop and test components.

To run the Storybook development server on your local environment, you can use the following command:

npm run storybook

To generate a static build of the Storybook (usually, you don't need this. This is only necessary when you want to publish it to somewhere), you can use the following command:

npm run storybook:build

Production Build

The production deployment is automated by GitHub Actions. Check the .github/workflows/new-version.yml file for more information.

If you need to generate a production ready build for some reason, use:

npm run build

This will generate a dist folder that contains the compiled components.