Discovery Components

Table of contents

• About
• Quick Links
• Using Discovery Components
• Prerequisites
• Development
  • Project structure
  • Install
  • Commonly-used commands
  • Root directory
  • Example app (examples/discovery-search-app)
  • React components (packages/discovery-react-components)
  • Styles (packages/discovery-styles)
  • Running the project
  • Running Storybook
  • Testing
  • Unit/Integration testing
  • Feature tests
  • Continuous integration
  • Branching and Releasing

About

This is a repository created and maintained by the IBM Watson Discovery UI team. It contains a collection of components, to be used by internal and external applications to query Watson Discovery projects. For a quick look at the available components, take a look at them in Storybook

Quick Links

• Example App
• React Components Library
• Hosted Storybook

Using Discovery Components

First, you will need to customize and improve your document retrieval project on the Improve and Customize page in IBM Watson Discovery. For example, you can configure facets, as well as the search bar and search results for your project. Then, you can build your application using Discovery Components, and it will pull in your specified project's configuration.

Prerequisites

• git
• nvm
  • Set Node version nvm use (uses value defined in .nvmrc file)
• yarn or npm
• On MacOS, install any waiting OS Software Updates and install Xcode Command Line Tools by running xcode-select --install in terminal.

Development

Project structure

Discovery Components is set up as a monorepo. At the top level, the packages directory contains all of the modules that are offered as part of this repository.

Lerna and Yarn are used to manage shared dependencies across the packages. Create React Library was used to generate the library of React components, discovery-react-components.

Install

1. Install Yarn, as it is required build the components locally.

2. Download the git repository

git clone git@github.com:watson-developer-cloud/discovery-components.git

or

git clone https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/discovery-components.git

3. Install OS dependencies for building NPM packages (required for building cairo, which is used by pdfjs):

   Follow the installation instructions for your OS from https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas#compiling.

4. To generate the dependencies for all of the packages, run the following at the root directory:

yarn

This will install and bundle all of the shared dependencies for packages and for examples, and will also create a single yarn.lock file at the root directory. Dependency hoisting is taken care of with Yarn Workspaces, setup inside package.json.

Commonly-used commands

Root directory

Example app (examples/discovery-search-app)

See here for a full list

React components (packages/discovery-react-components)

See here for a full list

Styles (packages/discovery-styles)

Running the project

Developing discovery-react-components with real data and multiple components can be done using the example app. To test the components in isolation with mock data, try running Storybook.

Running Storybook

Component documentation is done through Storybook.

To run Storybook, run the following command, then open your browser to http://localhost:9002/:

yarn workspace @ibm-watson/discovery-react-components run storybook

Testing

Unit/Integration testing

This repo uses Jest for unit and integration testing the React components. Tests are rendered through react-testing-library, which also provides some additional functionality.

Feature tests

Cypress is used for feature and e2e testing. All feature testing will be done in the examples directories (end-user application examples) to test a full client-server relationship. For CI, Cypress server is used to mock out API requests and allow component expectations to be tested from the user's perspective.

The directory structure for adding feature tests in cypress looks like:

examples/discovery-search-app/cypress
├── fixtures         // mock data or other static assets
│   └── example.json
├── integration      // top-level directory for feature tests
│   └── spec.ts
├── plugins          // any plugins from https://docs.cypress.io/plugins/index.html#content
│   └── index.js
├── screenshots      // screenshots are stored on test failures
├── support          // other helper methods like custom commands https://docs.cypress.io/api/cypress-api/custom-commands.html#Syntax
│   ├── commands.ts
│   └── index.ts
└── videos           // recorded videos of test failures for review after a test run

The basic process is to add a new file/directory under examples/discovery-search-app/cypress/integration then run yarn workspace discovery-search-app cypress to open up the interactive debugger.

To start the example app server and run all Cypress tests, use yarn workspace discovery-search-app test:e2e, which does the following steps:

1. Starts up a server to host the example application
2. Once the server responds, perform the next command cypress run (headless version of cypress open)
3. After tests are complete, results are printed in the console, and both the cypress server and the application server are shut down

Continuous integration

GitHub Actions is used to continuously run integration tests against this repository, and any PRs that are made against it.

When triggered, GitHub Actions will build the project, then run the test scripts, and output the pass/fail to whichever branch/PR triggered the build.

Steps in the automation can be set in .github/workflows/ci.yml, located in the root directory.

Branching and Releasing

• master is an eternal branch with latest stable code that will have automated releases on using the continuous integration described above
• for hotfix/patch-style releases, perform the following steps:
  1. git checkout -b hotfix/1.4.0-patch-1 v1.4.0-beta.2 (checks out a new branch from the tag needing the hotfix)
  2. Make changes and push changes to hotfix/1.4.0-patch-1 as usual
  3. Ensure you have access to publish the package npm login && npm whoami && npm access ls-collaborators (must have read-write, contact someone from https://www.npmjs.com/settings/ibm-watson/members to gain access)
  4. lerna publish 1.4.0-patch-1.0 --dist-tag patch-1 --allow-branch hotfix/1.4.0 (see lerna publish)
  5. git checkout master && git merge hotfix/1.4.0 || git mergetool && git push origin master (merge changes/tags back to master, resolving merge conflicts by taking lerna.json version from master branch)

The only branch permitted for automatic releasing on CI is master

More information about the lerna publish command can be found in the README for lerna publish

To test publishing to the npm registry locally, you can use Verdaccio