Design System for React

Accessible, localization-friendly, presentational React components

Install

$ npm install @salesforce-ux/design-system @salesforce/design-system-react

Getting Started

Welcome to the project! 👋 This library is the React implementation of the Salesforce Lightning Design System. This library has a peer dependency on @salesforce-ux/design-system, react, and react-dom. It has been tested with React >=15.4.1 <16 and is stable despite its version number. Please polyfill this library in order to meet your target environment needs. A 1.0 will be released soon.

• Usage
• Getting Started
• Documentation and interactive examples
• Contributing
• Codebase Overview
• Usage with Webpack

Usage

Quick Setup (CommonJS)

A CommonJS-compatible version has been included within the NPM package to allows usage without transpiling. Use the following named import syntax to access CommonJS components from /lib/index.js:

import { Button } from '@salesforce/design-system-react';

<Button label="Hello Button" />

Recommended Usage (ES6 modules)

Recommended usage requires that your babel presets are set up correctly. create-react-app and environments that do not transpile code within node_modules are not compatible with the component import below. All the examples on the documentation site use this syntax. You can use the Babel preset, @salesforce/babel-preset-design-system-react, to get started. This preset will keep Babel compatible with Design System React and allow ES6 module benefits such as tree-shaking. This library is not browser-ready and should be polyfilled to your target environment.

import Button from '@salesforce/design-system-react/components/button';

<Button label="Hello Button" />

Transpile with .babelrc settings

{
  "presets": ["@salesforce/babel-preset-design-system-react"]
}

Icon Usage

Prior to v0.7.0, SLDS icons were bundled with the JavaScript. The 400KB+ icons bundle from SLDS is no longer included. You will need to download the SLDS CSS and icons separately.

Serve icons publicly

Typically, scripts should be downloaded in the background without blocking the DOM. With React, this works best with server side rendering. SLDS recommends placeholder stencils while scripts are initializing if the HTML cannot be served immediately. If you can serve the HTML, then icon SVGs should not be bundled and served like any other file. Set a path context for all child components with <IconSettings> at the top of your render tree:

import IconSettings from '@salesforce/design-system-react/components/icon-settings';

ReactDOM.render(
  <IconSettings iconPath="/assets/icons">
    <MyApp />
  </IconSettings>,
  document.getElementById('app')
)

// `/assets/icons` will be prepended to `/standard-sprite/svg/symbols.svg#account` within the SVG path
<svg aria-hidden="true" class="slds-icon">
  <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="/assets/icons/standard-sprite/svg/symbols.svg#account"></use>
</svg>

// ExpressJS example
app.use('/assets/icons', express.static('node_modules/@salesforce-ux/icons/dist/salesforce-lightning-design-system-icons/'));

Bundle icons

If you use a module bundler, like Webpack, you can import the individual sprite files and assign them to the <IconSettings> sprite properties. Your SVG images will be bundled with your scripts and block the DOM from rendering until the script file is loaded.

import IconSettings from '@salesforce/design-system-react/components/icon-settings';

import standardSprite from '@salesforce-ux/design-system/assets/icons/standard-sprite/svg/symbols.svg';
...
...

ReactDOM.render(
  <IconSettings standardSprite={standardSprite}>
    <MyApp />
  </IconSettings>,
  document.getElementById('app')
)

Bundled script files are provided only for convenience.

• design-system-react.min.js (700KB+) - includes icons in the JavaScript
• design-system-react-components.min.js (~400KB) - no icons.

Contributing to the code base

Clone and develop locally with in-browser test server

git clone git@github.com:salesforce/design-system-react.git
npm install
npm start
open http://localhost:9001 http://localhost:8001

Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md and Test README first. Then, create an issue to tell others you are working on a bug. If you would like to contribute a new component, create an issue with a list of proposed props to discuss with maintainers. Issues not addressed with pull requests may be closed eventually. Check out who's contributing to the project.

Licenses

• Source code is licensed under BSD 3-Clause
• All icons and images are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0
• The Salesforce Sans font is licensed under our font license

Got feedback?

If you have support questions, please post a question to StackOverflow and tag with design-system-react. If you find any bugs, create a GitHub Issue.