Add simulate media queries #17946

jorgefilipecosta · 2019-10-15T09:01:45Z

Description

This PR adds an experimental block-editor component that allows one to simulate a width value in media queries part of a specific set.

This together with PR #17085 that adds the same simulation mechanism for withViewPortMatch will allow us to show a mobile UI in the block editor present in the customizer even though the window size may be big.

It will also allow us to provide components that allow one to switch between mobile desktop and target views.

To force media queries to react as if the width as different from the true window size we iterate on the stylesheets and each time if find a media query with a min or max-width rule evaluate that value against our simulated value if the rule matches we replace the media query with another media query that evaluates to true, if the rule does not match we replace the media-query with a rule that evaluates to false.

This PR is an alternative to #17057.
It fixes the biggest problems:

The low performance of the current element queries polyfills (the editor has lots of styles and each block can add more styles the current polyfills don't scale in this scenario).
The current polyfills rely on added wrapping class/attribute selectors which change the specificity and make the editor behaver differently.

In this case, the performance is very hight we just change the media queries when the simulated value change and then we totally rely on the browser and the specificity is not changed.

How has this been tested?

I added media & text block which has a stack on mobile option.
I used the test UI added on this PR (to be removed before the merge) that allows us to change the simulated value or to disable the simulation and I verified I was able to trigger to stack on mobile behavior even though the window was big.

aduth · 2019-11-07T15:27:23Z

Related: #13203

epiqueras · 2019-11-07T21:07:33Z

packages/edit-post/src/components/sidebar/settings-sidebar/index.js

+	//'block-editor/style.css',
+	'block-library/style.css',
+	'block-library/theme.css',
+	'block-library/editor.css',
+	//'format-library/style.css',


Why are 2 commented out? Should we just remove them?

packages/edit-post/src/components/sidebar/settings-sidebar/index.js

epiqueras · 2019-11-07T21:28:21Z

packages/block-editor/src/components/simulate-media-query/index.js

+				} );
+			};
+		},
+		[ partialPaths, value ]


As an optimization, we could pass in a set of values for which we can precompute class name rules for, for each media query. Like in this CodePen after these fixes.

Hi @epiqueras, yes we could do an optimization where we precompute the media query evaluation for a predefined set of values.
I think we can also have big performance wins by just parsing the media query rules one time at the start, and then when we change the simulated width we can just compare the new width with the media query value that were already parsed.

I did not invest much in performance yet as we did not decide yet if we want to follow this idea. But in my tests even without optimizations, I don't notice any delay with changing the simulated width.

jorgefilipecosta · 2019-11-12T20:57:41Z

Hi @epiqueras, your suggestions were applied 👍 Let me know what you think of this PR and if you think it is something we should follow.
If we decide to merge it, the file https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/7661f295c8fb69390837b06a39f5a1bf410668cd/packages/edit-post/src/components/sidebar/settings-sidebar/index.js will not be merged as it was just added to help test this PR.
The first use case of this functionality is going to be #17960 that uses this to provide a Mobile UI on the customizer blocks. We can also follow up with an experimental component that allows mobile previews ( the main use case).

epiqueras · 2019-11-12T21:10:07Z

I like the approach.

@aduth you've also been looking at this. What do you think?

aduth

This seems promising 👍 I think the challenge, depending how accurate we want the simulation to be, will be the actual evaluation of the media queries, and in accounting for all relevant stylesheets which might have an impact on the preview.

aduth · 2019-11-15T16:45:04Z

packages/edit-post/src/components/sidebar/settings-sidebar/index.js

@@ -22,6 +23,45 @@ import PageAttributes from '../page-attributes';
 import MetaBoxes from '../../meta-boxes';
 import PluginDocumentSettingPanel from '../plugin-document-setting-panel';

+const PARTIAL_PATHS = [


How do you imagine we account for styles associated to using editor_style or style in register_block_type ?

If we can have the absolute paths for those stylesheets, I assume it wouldn't be much more of a stretch to try to also have the full paths for the editor, block library, and theme styles. The idea of hard-coding a few partial paths doesn't seem like it would be a very effective solution.

That's one of the hardest challenges of this approach -- deciding what stylesheets should be converted.

The idea of hard-coding a few partial paths doesn't seem like it would be a very effective solution.

I agree. I used hard codding of these styles as a simpler way to test the approach. My idea is for the server to pass a setting named "media_query_rewrite_paths" containing the paths of style sheets that should be rewritten. I guess some of these styles will be common to the styles we use in for the editor styles wrapping rewrite.

Currently these only exist as individual stylesheets in the plugin though. In core they're all bundled together with styles that we don't want to change at all such as wp-admin, editor and component ones. So the solution will need to include making sure all our post-content-relevant styles (or all our full-site-editing-relevant styles?) are bundled as a separate stylesheet in core, and then we'll probably also want to include the theme stylesheet.

aduth · 2019-11-15T16:49:39Z

packages/block-editor/src/components/simulate-media-query/index.js

+				}
+			} );
+			return () => {
+				originalStyles.forEach( ( rulesCollection, styleSheetIndex ) => {


I had trouble thinking in my experiment how to reliably restore styles after the simulation is complete. I think this combination of useEffect plus a consistent reference to both the original styleSheets and originalStyles should work pretty well.

I suppose there might be the off chance that if a specific rule in a stylesheet were dynamically modified elsewhere, the ruleIndex might become inaccurate at the time we restore styles. That seems like an edge case though.

packages/block-editor/src/components/simulate-media-query/index.js

aduth · 2019-11-15T17:01:56Z

packages/block-editor/src/components/simulate-media-query/index.js

+}
+
+function replaceMediaQueryWithWidthEvaluation( ruleText, widthValue ) {
+	return ruleText.replace( VALID_MEDIA_QUERY_REGEX, ( match, minOrMax, value ) => {


It would be nice if we could actually evaluate the media query, rather than trying to extract a pixel value. The currnet implementation would miss a bunch of alternate units or complex queries.

I explored this a bit at #13203 (comment), with some approaches using iframe or an npm package.

The current implementation is very naive. But we can easily expand the replace mechanism to support complex queries e.g: screen and (min-width: 40em) is replaced with screen and (min-width: 999999px), we would need some logic to convert units which is not hard.
Evaluating or using a package is interesting if we want to support more complex scenarios like (hover: none) to simulate touch. The npm package would be very interesting if it relied on browser evaluation for properties not explicitly passed.
e.g:

cssMediaquery.match('screen and (min-width: 40px)', { width: '1024px' });

Returns false because we did not pass "type : 'screen'", while in a replace approach it may be true because the current device is a screen. I guess given that defaults are not assumed it will not be easy to provide a complete set of default values.

The npm package would be very interesting if it relied on browser evaluation for properties not explicitly passed.

Are we interested in any type other than 'screen'?. If we pass the match function type: 'screen' it'll match all media queries that don't explicitly have a different type set, so

cssMediaquery.match('(min-width: 40px)', { width: '1024px', type: 'screen' });

will return true.
Not quite sure how it handles things like prefers-reduced-motion though.

packages/block-editor/src/components/simulate-media-query/index.js

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tellthemachines

This is working better than my experiment in #19082 so I'm going to merge this branch with mine and have a play with it 😄

tellthemachines · 2019-12-17T23:43:31Z

packages/block-editor/src/components/simulate-media-query/index.js

+}
+
+function replaceMediaQueryWithWidthEvaluation( ruleText, widthValue ) {
+	return ruleText.replace( VALID_MEDIA_QUERY_REGEX, ( match, minOrMax, value ) => {


The npm package would be very interesting if it relied on browser evaluation for properties not explicitly passed.

Are we interested in any type other than 'screen'?. If we pass the match function type: 'screen' it'll match all media queries that don't explicitly have a different type set, so

cssMediaquery.match('(min-width: 40px)', { width: '1024px', type: 'screen' });

will return true.
Not quite sure how it handles things like prefers-reduced-motion though.

tellthemachines · 2019-12-18T01:00:48Z

packages/edit-post/src/components/sidebar/settings-sidebar/index.js

@@ -22,6 +23,45 @@ import PageAttributes from '../page-attributes';
 import MetaBoxes from '../../meta-boxes';
 import PluginDocumentSettingPanel from '../plugin-document-setting-panel';

+const PARTIAL_PATHS = [


Currently these only exist as individual stylesheets in the plugin though. In core they're all bundled together with styles that we don't want to change at all such as wp-admin, editor and component ones. So the solution will need to include making sure all our post-content-relevant styles (or all our full-site-editing-relevant styles?) are bundled as a separate stylesheet in core, and then we'll probably also want to include the theme stylesheet.

jorgefilipecosta · 2019-12-18T21:38:33Z

Closing this PR as @tellthemachines already mixed the concept being proposed here with the work in PR #19082 that also includes a UI. Thank you for joining this effort @tellthemachines 👍

jorgefilipecosta added Mobile Web Viewport sizes for mobile and tablet devices [Feature] Widgets Screen The block-based screen that replaced widgets.php. labels Oct 15, 2019

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Add mechanism to convert media queries into "element" queries #17057

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