- 📝 Table of Contents
- 🧐 About
- ⛏️ Built Using
- 📅 Project's Calendar
- 👩🏻💼💡👨🏽💼 The Customer
- 📈 Process 📉📈
- 💻 Working with code
- 🧱 Guidelines for building components
- 🎨 Theming and global styling
- 🧱 Component styling
- 📤 📥 Inline CSS vs Stylesheets
- 👍🏽 Code best practices
Working with GIT
Working with Heroku and Deployment
Working with Knex and Migrations
Working with API Documentation - Swagger
Working with Storybook
Working with AWS - Amazon Services- Testing
- Making authenticated requests through firebase (useFetch hook)
- 🏁 Getting Started
- 📜 Getting the HackYourFuture certificate
- 👨🏾💻 Authors
- 📝 License
This repository is for Class16 Final Project - Guide IT
Production website: https://guide-it-production.herokuapp.com/
Staging website: https://guide-it-staging.herokuapp.com/
- React - Web Framework
- NodeJs - Server Environment
- MySQL - Database
- Express - Server Framework - Server and Client side structure
- Knex - Database management
- Swagger - API Documentation
- Storybook - Tool for developing UI components in isolation
- Prettier - Code formatter
The project will run between the 18/04 and the 01/06
Every Sunday and the setup will be roughly like this:
- 12:00 - 13:30 - Project or Technical Presentation from Mentors or Demo Presentations from Students
- 13:30 - 14:00 - Q&A on Breakout rooms
- 14:00 - 14:30 - Lunch
- 14:30 - 16:00 - Q&A on Breakout rooms
This project is a collaboration between ReDI School and HYF and it's goal is to create a tool to help newcomers decide their IT path
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Check the mockup here
https://dbdiagram.io/d/60769bb6b6aeb3052d90059f - Use https://dbdiagram.io/
- Take a story/task by assigning to you on the storyboard. Remember to update the status of your work when needed: in progress, blocked, waiting for review, etc.
- Always create your branches from the develop branch. Do not interact with the master branch.
- ALWAYS run code before a PR is made
- Remember to go through the checklist for the PRs, and to make it easier for others, try to be as pedagogical as possible in your PRs by fx. adding pictures of your changes.
- Test, test, test. Check the console before commiting, are there any errors/warnings?
- No committing
console.log - No committing merge conflicts!
- Work in separate files! When you make a new feature, the first thing you do is create a new file for that (of course if it makes sense). Especially for components.
- When working with components that are built using storybook, test them by adding them on a page. Do not commit those tests but there are errors that might not appear in storybook, but might show up outside of storybook.
- The mockup is very helpful to know the styles for the project, fonts, colors, typography, etc.
- Remember to use each other and take advantage of the studyrooms (Zendesk and Elastic).
Generally there are 2 types of components: presentational and container components. Please review the differences below:
| Presentational components | Container components | |
|---|---|---|
| Also known as | "dumb" components, functional stateless components | "smart" components, stateful components |
| Lives in this folder | /components |
/containers |
| Purpose | Determines what a component looks like | Determines how the applications works |
| Communication | Can only communicate by receiving and passing props | Can communicate via props, can call APIs, can manipulate the DOM with REFs, etc. |
| Markup | Contains most of the markup for the application | Should generally have as little markup as possible. A container <div> or an <ul> tag is ok, but if you need more, consider making a separate presentational component |
| Storybook | Can easily be mocked in Storybook | Cannot easily be mocked in Storybook, would require mocking API calls, etc. |
| Can have side effects | No | Yes |
These are general distinctions. In the past you could only make container components as class components as functions could not have state, but with React Hooks functional components can now have state. And with the addition of Context API components can easily communicate with their siblings and jump multiple steps in the hierarchy outside of how props are used to communicate between components. This is very powerful and can be convenient, but can easily make the application overly complex, so the advice is to stick to the separation between Presentational and Container components as closely as possible and only apply for example Context API where there is a justified need.
It is highly recommended, but not a requirement, to add proptypes to your components. Proptypes does two things:
- Give you an understandable error in the browser console when you try to use a component with wrong props specified.
- Provide a way for others to quickly reason about how to use your component when they read your code.
To add proptypes, simply import the proptypes package and specify exactly what data you expect your props to contain on the propTypes property of your component:
...
import PropTypes from 'prop-types;
...
[your component code]
....
YourComponent.propTypes = {
firstProp: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
secondProp: PropTypes.number.isRequired
}
Note the capitalization in the example above. It's easy to get wrong. Refer to the proptypes npm package for further documentation.
Checkout this great video from Zaki Wasik: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AZhtGTWN8k
Storybook provides a sandbox environment where it is easy to mock components in a visual way. When you create a presentational component you should always add a story so it shows up in storybook. Benefits of using Storybook is:
- Clear overview of which components are implemented and which are not.
- Ability to experiment with applying different props to components to learn whether a given component could be used in another use-case.
- Makes it easier to perform a visual review of components (does it look like the original design?), as the reviewee would not have to put the application in a certain state to view the component (might otherwise involve performing SQL queries to populate the database and cleanup would also be required after).
Storybook runs as a separate web application parallel to the main application. Run storybook with the following command
npm run storybook
The storybook application will become available on http://localhost:3007. From here you can browse and review the available components.
Some components may have "knobs" which are UI controls that allows you to interactively play with the props of a given component. It is up to the author of the component to set up knobs.
The most basic way to create a story for your component is to put this code in your the stories file for your component (my-component.stories.js):
import React from 'react';
import MyComponent from './my-component.component';
export default { title: 'Some title' };
export const basicStory = () => <MyComponent firstProp={1} secondProp={2} />;
If you open Storybook, you should see your component under the headline "Some title".
You can have multiple Stories (i.e. multiple mutations of the same component) in your stories file. Just add another export. The story will take its name from the exported variable name:
...
export const basicStory = () => <MyComponent firstProp={1} secondProp={2} />;
export const advancedStory = () => <MyComponent firstProp={() => callMagicFunction()} secondProp={{ ...mysteriousObject }} />;
This will result in two stories under the headline "Some title".
You can also add folders to add hierarchical organization to your stories:
...
export default { title: 'Secret Folder/Some title' };
...
You can add "knobs", i.e. form elements that will allow you to interact with your component by manipulating props in real time, by importing withKnobs from the @storybook/addon-knobs package and using it as a decorator.
import React from 'react';
import MyComponent from './my-component.component';
import { withKnobs, boolean, number } from "@storybook/addon-knobs";
export default { title: 'CardLayouts/Status Card', decorators: [withKnobs] };
export const WithKnobs = () => <MyComponent isTrue={boolean('Toggle is true', true)} theNumber={number('Change the number', 42)} />;
Boolean and number which are also imported are widgets to manipulate the props. Boolean will provide a simple true/false checkbox and number will provide a number input. But you can add many different knobs, including dropdown selects and color pickers.
Always think about how you can break your UI into meaningful reuseable components. On one hand you want to be able to re-use your code as much as possible and on the other you want to avoid premature abstraction into components, meaning that you don't want to create a lot of components that are never actually re-used.
Please refer to this article for the basics about breaking UI elements into components.
- When relevant pre-fix your component with the domain it is addressing. For example if it is a list showing motorcycles, call it
MotorcycleList, notListMotorcycle. This way components will be grouped by domain when sorted alphabetically in a folder. If it is a generic list component that can contain many things, omit the domain and call itList. - Put Presentational components in a folder inside
/Componentsand postfix their name with.component. - Put container components in a folder inside
/Containersand postfix their name with.container. - All assets (styles, test, stories) associated with a component lives in the component folder.
- Postfix filenames with type of the file to make it easier to search for a given file in VSCode. Examples:
/MotorcycleList/MotorcycleList.container.js/MotorcycleCard/MotorcycleCard.component.js/MotorcycleCard/MotorcycleCard.styles.css/MotorcycleCard/MotorcycleCard.stories.js/MotorcycleCard/MotorcycleCard.test.js
- File names should be
PascalCased. - Component names (i.e. the name of the function in JS) should be
PascalCasedby general React conventions. Don't include.componentor.containerin the JS name.
For global styles (i.e. styles that shall affect all components) use src/client/index.css. Global styles should be very rare and should typically be reserved for things like CSS resets, importing fonts and utilities.
For theming, use the file src/client/theme.css. Theming covers everything related to the visual presentation of the site that needs to be re-used often. That means colors, borders, paddings, shadows, etc.
Remember to check the mockup to extract the styles for the project.
Components should always have a unique CSS class to make it easy to apply styles and styles. For example the "label" component should have a class "label". To easily concatenate different classes or apply classes conditionally, use the classnames npm package. Example of a label component that has a class "label" and will receive additional classes as props:
...
import classNames from 'classnames';
export default function Label({ title, className }) {
return <span className={classNames('label', className)}>{title}</span>;
}
...
Only put styling that is relevant to the individual component in the component CSS file. If it covers multiple components, put it in theme.css or index.css.
Remember to check the mockup to extract the styles for the project.
Generally components should be styled using a dedicated stylesheet per component (see naming conventions in the section above). Exceptions can be made for values that are dynamically updated - i.e. a width that can any arbitrary value. If you need to change between two colors, apply css classes to the element in question style those classes and use react to switch out the css classes. For example:
.label-primary {
background-color: var(--primary-color);
color: var(--white);
}
Follow these best practices for coding: HERE
This can be used as a checklist for every PR you make. Go through the list and see if you have used all the best practices
Working with Heroku and Deployment
When running the API, you will automatically be running the API Documentation which is based on Swagger. Just go to localhost:3000/api/documentation to read the specifications for the API.
You can use your api token to authorize in Swagger and you will be able to perform test calls against the API directly from Swagger.
Use this example for the modules endpoints Modules and add your endpoint documentation in the router file for your endpoint. And then add the route here under // Application routes
Tool for developing UI components in isolation
Check here https://storybook.js.org/
AWS is used for uploading files on a AWS S3 bucket. There is a user on the AWS that has AmazonS3FullAccess. There is not a AWS root key, but ONLY a key and a secret key for the AWS user.
If you need the key and secret to put into the .env file, write to the project manager of the project.
REMEMBER, this key should be kept super secret!!! NEVER add this to any PR!!
To make a new test, add a COMPONENT_NAME.test.js to a component. See fx the Home component to get an example of a simple test.
To run all test, write this command:
npm run test
To run the tests when you change a test file, run:
npm run test:watch
First clone the repo on your local machine using a terminal or a git client.
If you get this error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir
Then try and run this script: npm rebuild node-sass
To ensure we all code the same way, we are using linting in this project! We use prettier to do the linting for us. To Use the linting in this project, set your code editor up with the .prettierrc.js files.
In Visual Studio code, go to file -> Preferences -> settings -> Search for prettier: config path -> In the input write .prettierrc.js
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.