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noredink-ui
UI widgets we use.
Versioning policy
We try to avoid breaking changes and the associated major version bumps in this package. The reason for that is to avoid the following scenario:
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x 4.6.0: Adding RadioButton widget
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x 5.0.0: Breaking change in the TextArea widget
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x 5.0.1: Styling fix in the Checkbox widget
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Suppose you just released version 5.0.1
, a small styling fix in the checkbox widget, for a story you're working on. If the project you're working in currently pulls in noredink-ui
at version 4.x
, then getting to your styling fix means pulling in a new major version of noredink-ui
. This breaks all TextArea
widgets across the project, so those will need to be fixed before you can do anything else, potentially a big effort.
To prevent these big Yaks from suddenly showing up in seemingly trivial tasks we prefer to avoid breaking changes in the package. Instead when we need to make a breaking change in a widget, we create a new module for it Nri.Ui.MyWidget.VX
. Similarly, when we build custom elements in JavaScript we create a file lib/MyWidget/VX.js
and define a custom element nri-mywidget-vX
.
We should change this process if we feel it's not working for us!
Moving Widgets to noredink-ui
If you are moving in a widget from the monolith:
- Copy the contents of
Nri.SomeModule
and its tests toNri.Ui.SomeModule.V1
innoredink-ui
- Publish!
- If you feel confident upgrading pre-existing usages of the widget, switch over to it everywhere!
- If the new version introduces big changes and you'd rather keep the old one around for now, rename
Nri.SomeModule
toNri.DEPRECATEDSomeModule
in the monolith and start usingNri.Ui.SomeModule.V1
where you need it
Phasing out old versions
Our goal is to gradually move to the newest version of each widget, and remove the old versions when they are no longer used.
This means:
- We should avoid introducing new references to old versions of a widget
- When touching code that uses a widget, prefer upgrading to the latest version
- If you introduce a new version of a widget, please consider taking the time to upgrade all previous usages
- If for some reason this isn't feasible, create a story in your team's backlog so that you can prioritize it separately without disrupting your current work
- You can delete an old version of a widget when there are no usages left
- Currently,
noredink-ui
is used by the monolith, CCS and tutorials - Note: this will be a major version bump, so you may want to batch deletions together
- Currently,
Examples
This repo contains an app showcasing all of these UI widgets.
To see them locally:
script/develop.sh
If you'd like to test your widget in the monolith before publishing, run script/test-elm-package.py ../path_to_this_repo
from the monolith's directory.
Tests
Run tests with
make test
CI (Travis)
Travis will run make ci
to verify everything looks good.
You can run this locally to catch errors before you push!
Deploying
Once your PR is merged, you can publish master
as a new version:
Run the following to bump && publish the version in elm.json
:
elm bump
Commit and push your changes in a PR. Once it's approved and merged, then:
git tag -a 5.10.0 -m "release version 5.10.0"
git push origin 5.10.0
elm publish
You can also add a tag in https://github.com/NoRedInk/noredink-ui/releases/new if you want to add more detail.
Once you've published, you should see the latest version at https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/NoRedInk/noredink-ui/.
Developing with Nix
You can develop this package without installing anything globally by using Nix. To get started, install nix from nixos.org/nix.
After that's set up in your shell (just follow the instructions at the end of the installation script) you can run nix-shell
to get a development environment with everything you need.
If you find that inconvenient, try using direnv
.
Once that's set up, echo use nix > .envrc
and then direnv allow
.
Anytime you enter the project your shell will automatically pick up the right dependencies.
If you find that direnv
loads too slow, there are faster loading strategies than the default in their wiki.
Working with upstream dependencies
We use niv
to manage Nix dependencies.
It is automatically loaded in the Nix environment.
Here are some things you might need to do:
Task | Command |
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Add a non-npm, non-Elm dependency packaged with Nix | Look if it's in nixpkgs, or niv add github.com/user/repo |
Update Nixpkgs | niv update nixpkgs |
See all our dependencies | Look in shell.nix |
See all our sources | niv show |