@bolttech/frontend-foundations v0.7.0

Frontend-Foundations

Summary

On this documentation you will find the following topics:

• Description
• Requirements
• Installation
• Before you start
  • Screen breakpoints and Media Queries
  • Default Theme
• Components
  • BolttechThemeProvider
  • Row
  • Column
  • Center
  • Typography
• Helper classes
  • Colors
  • Margin
  • Padding
  • Positioning
• Generating your own theme

Description

The foundations are a set of components provided for developers to easily replicate the base used by the Designers to place, align, style and structure your pages.

It contains a strict series of components that should always be used in your development, as it follows the Bolttech Guidelines for designing pages.

Requirements

• Node.js 16.0 +
• React 18.2 +
• Styled-components 6.0 +

Installation

Install the frontend-foundations package on your project, with the following command:

npm i @bolttech/frontend-foundations

For development environments:

git clone git@bitbucket.org:gofrank/frontend-foundations.git
cd frontend-foundations
npm install
npm run storybook

Before you start

Before you start, you should be aware of two points that are the base of this project. Those points were defined in conjunction with the Design Team to create a basic structure that should be followed everytime designing and developing new components and pages. Those points are:

Screen breakpoints and Media Queries

All of the components inside the foundations follow our breakpoint rules. Those rules are also used later for you to provide specific sizes for some components depending on which screen breakpoint the screen currently is. Those breakpoints are:

With that said, you should import our media-queries based on those breakpoints when developing pages so you can better follow the grid guidelines.

Example:

import styled from 'styled-components';
import { MediaQueries } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

export const MyComponent = styled.div`
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  background-color: red;


  @media ${MediaQueries.LG} {
    background-color: green;
  }

  @media ${MediaQueries.SM} {
    flex-direction:column
  }
`

Default Theme

The foundations comes with a preset of colors, paddings, spacings, typography and tokens, these presets are the default theme or bolttech theme.

Here is the structure of theme:

type bolttechTheme = {
  colors: ColorsType;
  spacing: SpacingType;
  typography: TypographyType;
  effects: EffectType;
  components: Record<string, unknown>;
  tokens?: Record<string, unknown>;
};

Components

BolttechThemeProvider

The BolttechThemeProvider component is a extension of the ThemeProvider from styled-components. It allows you to inject a theme into all styled-components bellow it in the component tree.

Our ThemeProvider differs from the styled-components one because we expect a theme with a defined structure, and also, have a default theme with Bolttech styles.

If you want, you can import our default theme and the theme type and use it as you wish.

Example:

import { BolttechThemeProvider, bolttechTheme } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

const MyApp = () => (
  <BolttechThemeProvider theme={bolttechTheme}>
    <App />
  </BolttechThemeProvider>
);

export default MyApp;

Important: If you plan to use any of the components bellow, you need to wrap your application with the BolttechThemeProvider as our components use design tokens with a pre-defined structure, so you need to provide a theme with the type BolttechThemeType.

Box

The Box component is a versatile container component for React applications, designed to provide flexible styling and layout options. It accepts various props to customize its appearance and behavior.

React Box Component

Overview

The Box component is a versatile container component for React applications, designed to provide flexible styling and layout options. It accepts various props to customize its appearance and behavior.

Usage

import { Box } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

// ...

const MyComponent = () => {
  return (
    <Box
      sizes={{ xs: 100, sm: 100, md: 100, lg: 100 }} /* Optional */
      className="flex pt-l"
      removeGridPadding
      removeGridGap
    >
      {/* Your content goes here */}
    </Box>
  );
};

Props

Ref forwarding

The Box component supports ref forwarding. You can use the ref prop to get a reference to the underlying div element.

const myRef = useRef();

<Box ref={myRef}>Content</Box>;

Row

The Row component is basicly a div that wraps the components as a flex container, applying the base styles of our Design Grid System.

It has a maximum width of 1440px, a gap between columns and paddings on both sides of the row. The value of the gap and paddings are based on the Breakpoints of our grid system.

Props

Example:

import { Row } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

<Row fullWidth={true} fullHeight={true} center={false} className="mb-xs">
  <ChildComponent />
</Row>;

Column

The Column component is a component which uses percentage of width to define the size of the container. Designers and devs need to be aware that each screen breakpoint have a size to be filled. The possibilities of each breakpoint will be available below:

Props

Example:

import { Column, Row } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

const MyComponent = () => (
  <Row>
    <Column size={{ xs: '100%', sm: '33.333%', md: '50%', ld: '50%' }}>Hello</Column>
    <Column size={{ xs: '100%', sm: '66.666%', md: '50%', lg: '50%' }}>World</Column>
  </Row>
);

Center

The Center component is a basic component that wraps it's children component and centers it.

Example:

import { Center, Column, Row } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

const MyComponent = () => (
  <Row>
    <Center>
      <Column size={{ xs: '50%', sm: '50%', md: '50%', lg: '50%' }}>World</Column>
    </Center>
  </Row>
);

Typography

The Typography is a text component that can assume a lot of sizes determined by the design team based on the tokens inside the typography file under the theme folder. Please provide a valid combination of variant and type based on this file.

Props

Note: Depending on what type and variant you provide, the Typography component will render a different HTML Element.

Example:

import { Typography } from '@bolttech/frontend-foundations';

const MyComponent = () => (
  <Typography variant="primary" type="body">
    Welcome to bolttech!
  </Typography>
);

Also, the Typography component can render links inside of its text. To render links, you should pass it as you would in a normal Markdown file, for example:

const MyComponent = () => (
  <Typography variant="primary" type="body">
    normal text [text to render as link](https://google.com)(blank|download)
  </Typography>
);

Note that the last parameter is optional. If you dont pass it, it will open the link on the same tab

Helper classes

To help the development and styling of your pages, we decided to add helper classes for colors, paddings and margins as we know that creating styled components just to add those properties is not a fun task.

All of those classes are created based on the colors, spacing and flexbox properties of the tokens provided by your theme configuration

With that said, we have a basic set of classes that we provide:

Colors

Based on the structure of the theme, we create classes with the prefixes of text-, bg- and fill- and append the colors provided by your theme. So for example, if you have a theme with the following colors:

colors: {
  content: {
    accent: tokens.cyan['700'],
    base: tokens.navy['700'],
    subtle: tokens.navy['500'],
    weak: tokens.navy['400'],
    // ...
  }
}

We will inject the following classes on your global styles:

.text-content-accent {
  color: #00bac7;
}
.bg-content-accent {
  background-color: #00bac7;
}
.fill-content-accent {
  fill: #00bac7;
}

.text-content-base {
  color: #170f4f;
}
.bg-content-base {
  background-color: #170f4f;
}
.fill-content-base {
  fill: #170f4f;
}
/* ... */

Margin

Based on the structure of the theme, we create classes with the prefixes of mt-, mb-, ml-, mr-,mh-,mv-, and m-, and append the margins provided by your theme. So for example, if you have a theme with the following margins:

spacing: {
  flexbox: {
    XXS: '8px',
    XS: '16px',
    S: '24px',
    M: '32px',
    // ...
  },
}

We will inject the following classes on your global styles:

.mt-xxs: {
  margin-top: 8px;
}
.mb-xxs {
  margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.ml-xxs {
  margin-left: 8px;
}
.mr-xxs {
  margin-right: 8px;
}
.mh-xxs {
  margin-left: 8px;
  margin-right: 8px;
}
.mv-xxs {
  margin-top: 8px;
  margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.m-xxs {
  margin: 8px;
}

Padding

Based on the structure of the theme, we create classes with the prefixes of pt-, pb-, pl-, pr-,ph-,pv-, and p-, and append the paddings provided by your theme. So for example, if you have a theme with the following paddings:

spacing: {
  padding: {
    NONE: '0px',
    XXXS: '2px',
    XXS: '3px',
    XS: '4px',
    S: '8px',
    // ...
  },
}

We will inject the following classes on your global styles:

.pt-xxs: {
  padding-top: 8px;
}
.pb-xxs {
  padding-bottom: 8px;
}
.pl-xxs {
  padding-left: 8px;
}
.pr-xxs {
  padding-right: 8px;
}
.ph-xxs {
  padding-left: 8px;
  padding-right: 8px;
}
.pv-xxs {
  padding-top: 8px;
  padding-bottom: 8px;
}
.p-xxs {
  padding: 8px;
}

/* ... */

Positioning

We also wanted to provide an easy way for people to position elements on the page without having to create custom styled components just for positioning. So we also inject those classes on your global styles:

.flex {
  display: flex;
}
.flex-row {
  flex-direction: row;
}
.flex-row-reverse {
  flex-direction: row-reverse;
}
.flex-column {
  flex-direction: column;
}
.flex-column-reverse {
  flex-direction: column-reverse;
}
.flex-shrink-1 {
  flex-shrink: 1;
}
.flex-shrink-0 {
  flex-shrink: 0;
}
.flex-grow {
  flex: 1;
}
.flex-grow-1 {
  flex-grow: 1;
}
.flex-grow-0 {
  flex-grow: 0;
}
.flex-basis-0 {
  flex-basis: 0;
}
.flex-basis-1 {
  flex-basis: auto;
}
.align-start {
  align-items: flex-start;
}
.align-center {
  align-items: center;
}
.align-right {
  align-items: flex-end;
}
.align-self-stretch {
  align-self: stretch;
}
.align-self-center {
  align-self: center;
}
.align-self-start {
  align-self: start;
}
.align-self-end {
  align-self: end;
}
.justify-left {
  justify-content: flex-start;
}
.justify-center {
  justify-content: center;
}
.justify-right {
  justify-content: flex-end;
}
.justify-between {
  justify-content: space-between;
}
.justify-evenly {
  justify-content: space-evenly;
}
.justify-arround {
  justify-content: space-arround;
}
.min-content {
  width: min-content:
}
.max-content {
  width: max-content:
}

/* ... */

Typography

Generates CSS classes for typography that can be applied across your application, ensuring consistency in typography styling according to the theme specified. It caters to different text elements like headings, body text, and labels for both mobile and desktop breakpoints.

Parameters

• theme: ThemeType: An object that contains typography settings under typography property for both mobile and desktop, each including headings, body, and label.

Returns

A string containing CSS class definitions for the typography variants specified in the theme object.

Usage

Ensure your theme object is structured to include typography settings for both mobile and desktop, with detailed styles for headings, body, and label.

const theme = {
  typography: {
    mobile: {
      headings: { /* styles */ },
      body: { /* styles */ },
      label: { /* styles */ },
    },
    desktop: {
      headings: { /* styles */ },
      body: { /* styles */ },
      label: { /* styles */ },
    },
  }
};

Invoke createTypographyClasses with the theme object:

const typographyClasses = createTypographyClasses(theme);

Example CSS Output

.ty-headings-h1 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.2;
  font-size: 2rem;
  letter-spacing: 0.5px;
}
/* Additional classes for body, label, and other headings */

Flexbox Gap

Generates CSS classes for controlling gaps in flexbox layouts, utilizing the flexbox token values defined in the theme object. It supports custom prefixes for different gap sizes, allowing for a more flexible design system.

Parameters

• theme: ThemeType: An object that contains flexbox token values under the tokens.flexbox property.

• prefix = '': An optional string parameter to prefix the generated class names, allowing for customization and avoiding naming conflicts. Example prefixes: "sm:", "md:", "lg:".

Returns

An array of strings, each representing CSS class definitions for gap, row-gap, and column-gap based on the theme's flexbox token values.

Usage

Ensure your theme object includes flexbox token values under tokens.flexbox.

const theme = {
  tokens: {
    flexbox: {
      xss: '4px',
      xs: '6px',
      s: '8px',
    }
  }
};

Invoke createGapClasses with the theme object, and an optional prefix if needed. Here's how to use it with "sm:", "md:", and "lg:" prefixes for different gap sizes:

const smallGapClasses = createGapClasses(theme, 'sm:');
const mediumGapClasses = createGapClasses(theme, 'md:');
const largeGapClasses = createGapClasses(theme, 'lg:');

Example CSS Output

.sm:gap-s {
  gap: 8px;
}
.sm:rg-s {
  row-gap: 8px;
}
.sm:cg-s {
  column-gap: 8px;
}
/* Additional classes for medium "md:" and large "lg:" gaps */

Responsive

On the foundations, we also provide you a way to style your components based on screen sizes, to deal with responsiveness. For every class that you use to style your components, you can also target a specific screen size, simply adding the prefix of the screen size you want to target on the class.

Our approach is mobile first so be aware that if you provide a class without any prefix, it will apply to all the screen size, but, for example, if you provide a class called md:pt-xs it will apply the class pt-xs to screen sizes md and larger!. If you want to add only to a specific screen size, you would need to add another class targeting screen sizes bigger than the one you are targeting.

<Row className="pb-m sm:pb-s md:pb-xs lg:pb-xxs md:flex-grow-0 md:justify-between">
  <Column size={{ xs: '100%', sm: '33.333%', md: '50%', ld: '50%' }}>Hello</Column>
  <Column size={{ xs: '100%', sm: '66.666%', md: '50%', lg: '50%' }}>World</Column>
</Row>

Generating/updating your own theme

If you need to update your theme or create a new one, please take a look at our theme generator cli tool.