ReX React UI Components Library

ReX React UI Component Starter Kit

This project is part of ReX Design Language and it can be used to create React UI Components.
For more information visit:

Github
https://github.com/rakuten-frontend

NPM
https://www.npmjs.com/org/rakuten-frontend

How it was built

1. Build tool: webpack 4
2. Codebase: Fork of Bootstrap project + ReX custom styles
3. Css engine: Sass
4. JavaScript component: React

What you can do

This project is a started kit, it contains the settings to start the creations of a React component and publish it to NPM.

Use it as a basement and reference for your own project and customize it as you will.

If you need a full environment to create a React Web App, try the react-create-app to get a full environment for your App or use any other started kit.

How to start to work

1. Create your new git repository.
2. Clone or download this project.
3. Import the code from rex-react-component-starter-kit to your new git repository.

Note: Don't forget to import the hidden dot config files such as .babelrc, .gitignore, .storybook, etc.

Initial setup

Run this command for first time only to initialize your project.

npm run init:component

How to start the project

The development environment is based on Storybook, for more info visit https://storybook.js.org/ .

npm start

How to build

The build task will generate a NPM package ready to be published and also a static version of Storybook, one folder for NPM ./build/node_modules/PACKAGE_NAME and other one for Github pages ./docs.

npm run build

How to check build version

By using Node http-server, you can check the static version of Storybook with production settings and builds.

npm run serve

How to publish to NPM

Build the project

npm run build

Login into NPM

Build the project first.
After that run the following commands:

cd build/node_modules/PACKAGE_NAME
npm login
npm publish

Once the process finish, take a look to the NPM site:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/PACKAGE_NAME

Javascript and React related documents

Take a look to this nice documentation pages to be more familiar with React and modern Javascript:

Official site

https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html

Google Web Fundamentals (the whole site is a must to read)

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/

Webpack as magic bundler

https://webpack.js.org/

Composing Software series (how to understand Funcional Programming)

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/composing-software-an-introduction-27b72500d6ea

Common React patterns

https://reactpatterns.com

Understanding Storybook with nice images

https://blog.hichroma.com/the-delightful-storybook-workflow-b322b76fd07

Some guidelines for clean code

https://americanexpress.io/clean-code-dirty-code/