insights-frontend-starter-app

React.js starter app for Red Hat Insights products that includes Patternfly 3 and Patternfly Next.

Getting Started

There is a comprehensive quick start guide in the Storybook Documentation to setting up an Insights environment complete with:

• Insights Frontend Starter App

• Insights Chroming

• Insights Proxy

Note: You will need to set up the Insights environment if you want to develop with the starter app due to the consumption of the chroming service as well as setting up your global/app navigation through the API.

Build app

1. npm install

2. npm run start

   • starts webpack bundler and serves the files with webpack dev server

Testing

• npm run verify will run linters and tests
• Travis is used to test the build for this code.
  • You are always notified on failed builds
  • You are only notified on successful builds if the build before it failed
  • By default, both push events as well as pull_request events send notifications
  • Travis is defaulted to notify #insights-bots

Deploying

• The Platform team is using Travis to deploy the application
  • The Platform team will help you set up the Travis instance if this is the route you are wanting to take

How it works

• any push to the {REPO} master branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build ci-beta branch
• any push to the {REPO} ci-stable branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build ci-stable branch
• any push to the {REPO} qa-beta branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build qa-beta branch
• any push to the {REPO} qa-stable branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build qa-stable branch
• any push to the {REPO} prod-beta branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build prod-beta branch
• any push to the {REPO} prod-stable branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build prod-stable branch
• Pull requests (based on master) will not be pushed to {REPO}-build master branch
  • If the PR is accepted and merged, master will be rebuilt and will deploy to {REPO}-build ci-beta branch

Patternfly

• This project imports Patternfly components:
  • Patternfly React

Insights Components

Insights Platform will deliver components and static assets through npm. ESI tags are used to import the chroming which takes care of the header, sidebar, and footer.

Technologies

Webpack

Webpack.config.js

This file exports an object with the configuration for webpack and webpack dev server.

{
    mode: https://webpack.js.org/concepts/mode/,
    devtool: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/devtool/,

    // different bundle options.
    // allows you to completely separate vendor code from app code and much more.
    // https://webpack.js.org/plugins/split-chunks-plugin/
    optimization: {
        chunks: https://webpack.js.org/plugins/split-chunks-plugin/#optimization-splitchunks-chunks-all,
        runtimeChunk: https://webpack.js.org/plugins/split-chunks-plugin/#optimization-runtimechunk,

        // https://webpack.js.org/plugins/split-chunks-plugin/#configuring-cache-groups
        cacheGroups: {

            // bundles all vendor code needed to run the entry file
            common_initial: {
                test: // file regex: /[\\/]node_modules[\\/]/,
                name: // filename: 'common.initial',
                chunks: // chunk type initial, async, all
            }
        }
    },

    // each property of entry maps to the name of an entry file
    // https://webpack.js.org/concepts/entry-points/
    entry: {

        // example bunde names
        bundle1: 'src/entry1.js',
        bundle2: 'src/entry2.js'
    },

    // bundle output options.
    output: {
            filename: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/#output-filename,
            path: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/#output-path,
            publicPath: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/#output-publicpath,
            chunkFilename: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/#output-chunkfilename
    },
     module: {
         rules: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/module/#module-rules
     },

     // An array of webpack plugins look at webpack.plugins.js
     // https://webpack.js.org/plugins/
     plugins: [],

     // webpack dev serve options
     // https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server
     devServer: {}
}

React

• High-Order Component

  • a higher-order component is a function that takes a component and returns a new component
    • Ex) asyncComponent.js

• Smart/Presentational Components

  • Smart components have access to the redux state
  • Presentational components do not have access to the redux state
  • Smart Components === insights-frontend/app/js/states
  • Presentational Components === insights-frontend/app/js/components

• State and lifecycle within class components

  • article contains:
    • Adding Lifecycle Methods to a Class
    • Adding Local State to a Class
    • State Updates May Be Asynchronous
    • State Updates are Merged

Redux

Store

A store holds the whole state tree of your application. Redux doesn't have a Dispatcher or support many stores. Instead, there is just a single store with a single root reducing function.

Create Store: createStore(reducer, preloadedState, enhancer)

• methods
  • getState()
  • dispatch(action)
  • subscribe(listener)
  • replaceReducer(nextReducer)

Actions

Actions are payloads of information that send data from your application to your store. They are the only source of information for the store. You send them to the store using store.dispatch(). Redux actions should only have two properties, type and payload, as a best practice.

• Async Actions frameworks

  • redux-promise-middleware
    • Currently using this
      • look at /src/api/System/getSystems.js
  • redux-thunk
    • A function that wraps an expression to delay its evaluation

    // gotSystems(Error) are action creators
    function getSystems() {
          return function (dispatch) {
            return fetchSystems().then(
              systems => dispatch(gotSystems(systems)),
              error => dispatch(gotSystemsError(error))
            );
          };
        }

  • redux-saga
    • Uses generator functions
    • Could be a lot to learn initially.
  • redux-pack

Reducers

Reducers specify how the application's state changes in response to actions sent to the store.

Ex) /src/api/System/getSystems.js

React-redux

• Provider
  • Makes the Redux store available to the connect()
• connect([mapStateToProps], [mapDispatchToProps], [mergeProps], [options])
  • Connects a React component to a Redux store

React-router-dom

When setting up the routes, the page content is wrapped with a .page__{pageName} class, applied to the #root ID that is determined by the rootClass in the Routes.js which lets you easily reference the page in the styling.

• BrowserRouter
  • A <Router> that uses the HTML5 history API (pushState, replaceState and the popstate event) to keep your UI in sync with the URL
• Route
• Switch
  • Renders the first child <Route> or <Redirect> that matches the location.
• Redirect
  • navigate to a new location
• withRouter
  • passes updated match, location, and history props to the wrapped component whenever it renders

Running locally

Have insights-proxy installed under PROXY_PATH

SPANDX_CONFIG="./profiles/local-frontend.js" bash $PROXY_PATH/scripts/run.sh

Testing - jest

When you want to test your code with unit tests please use jest which is preconfigured in a way to colect codecoverage as well. If you want to see your coverage on server the travis config has been set in a way that it will send data to codecov.io the only thing you have to do is visit their website (register), enable your repository and add CODECOV_TOKEN to your travis web config (do not add it to .travis file, but trough travis-ci.org)