Design In The Browser Bootstrap, Patternlab edition!

This project provides a starting point for prototypes, with tooling and an opinion on CSS and JS structure to allow for rapid development utilising Patternlab ensuring all work is as transferable and as maintainable as possible.

What's required

It is assumed the developers computer is running OSX or Linux. Depending on your setup you may already have the below installed;

• Node.js (version 4.x.x)
• PHP (version 5.5+)
• Optional: Yarn

What's included

• Patternlab-PHP: Currently the most complete and stable version of patternlab, and supports twig.
• SASS CSS with auto-prefixing.
• Browsersync for autoreloading.
• Rollup and Babel for ES2015 support with module loading.
• Consideration for images, currently copying the directory only. We encourage using SVG for icons and pre-optimised photograph assets.
• An automated way to upload your site to a staging server using dploy.
• Build commands for generating testable or deployable assets only

Installation

To start a prototype using this bootstrap;

• Get the files: Clone this repository to a new directory, for example; git clone https://github.com/torchbox/design-in-browser-bootstrap.git new-project.
• Name the project: Open package.json and replace the name with your project name following npm guidelines.
• Setup git: Run npm run git:init in the root of your new project to remove existing git links with this repository and create a fresh project with the directory as is committed.
• Install dependencies Run yarn install to run the install process. npm install will work too, see section about yarn below.

Developing with it

• To start the development environment npm run lab - to stop this process press ctrl + c.
• This will start Browsersync and open your default browser after the startup process is complete. You can change this configuation by modifying the browsersync.config.js file, documented here https://www.browsersync.io/docs/options.
• Source files for developing your project are in site and the distribution folder for the compiled assets is dist. Any changes made to files in the dist directory will be overwritten.

Using yarn

• Yarn is the recommended way to install and upgrade node modules. It's like npm but handles dependencies better.
• Install yarn itself: https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install
• Install all packages from package.json: yarn install
• Add new packages with yarn: yarn add --dev package_name (this will add it to package.json and yarn.lock too)
• Upgrade packages: yarn upgrade-interactive
• You can use yarn instead of npm run to run tooling scripts, for example yarn lab instead of npm run lab.

Deploying it

Deploy script

You can take advantage of the nodejs package dploy to upload the /dist directory. To do so you will need to;

• Make a copy of example.dploy.yaml and name it dploy.yaml.
• Modify the host user and path.remote variables.
• Run npm run deploy to start the deployment process.

Build scripts

To only build assets for either development or production you can use

• npm run build To build development assets
• npm run build:prod To build assets with minification and vendor prefixes

Debug script

To test production, minified and vendor prefixed assets you can use

• npm run debug To develop with a simple http server, no browsersync and production assets

Troubleshooting

Installation

If you see the following error you can resolve node permissions using these steps: https://github.com/npm/npm/wiki/Troubleshooting#permission-error

npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/Users/Dave/.npm/depd/1.0.0'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/Users/Dave/.npm/depd/1.0.0']
npm ERR!   errno: 3,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   path: '/Users/Dave/.npm/depd/1.0.0',
npm ERR!   parent: 'connect' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

Technical Debt

• 30 minute timeout from patternlab is hardcoded and within the vendor directory, a value has been modified in /patternlab/vendor/pattern-lab/core/src/PatternLab/Console/Commands/WatchCommand.php
• Missing classes have been added to improve the rendering of titles on the file /patternlab/vendor/pattern-lab/styleguidekit-twig-default/views/partials/patternSectionSubtype.twig

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Torchbox Ltd

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.