@cmsgov/design-system v12.3.0

This package contains the following design system assets:

• Base styles
• Utility classes
• Sass/CSS and React components
• Responsive flexbox grid framework
• Fonts and images
• Sass mixins and variables

Installation

npm install --save @cmsgov/design-system

Usage

The source files included are written in Sass (.scss). You can add your node_modules directory to your Sass includePaths and import the file like this:

@import '@cmsgov/design-system/dist/scss/index';

or import the transpiled CSS:

@import '@cmsgov/design-system/dist/css/index';

Please view the documentation site for additional information.

Examples

Examples of the design system in use can be found in the examples directory on GitHub.

Bugs and contributions

Please submit an issue on GitHub for any bugs or feature requests.

You can also read our CONTRIBUTING.md document to learn about setting up a local development environment, contributing to the design system, and our coding guidelines.

File Structure

The design system follows a variation of ITCSS (Inverted Triangle architecture for CSS). The goal is to write CSS in specificity order.

└── @cmsgov/design-system/dist
    ├── components/
    │   └── index.js        Compiled JS entry point (CommmonJS)
    ├── css/
    │   ├── index.css       Compiled CSS rules
    │   └── core-theme.css  Core-theme tokens as CSS variables
    ├── scss/
    │   ├── core-theme.scss Sass version of core-theme tokens
    │   ├── *-tokens.scss   Copy of core-theme.scss for backwards compatability
    ├── fonts/
    │   └── *               Fonts referenced by the design system CSS
    ├── images/
    │   └── *               Images referenced by the design system CSS
    ├── {preact,react}-components/
    │   ├── bundle/         Bundled version of JavaScript components
    │   ├── cjs/            CommonJS compiled version of JavaScript components
    │   ├── esm/            ES Modules compiled version of JavaScript components
    │   └── types/          TypeScript definition files for JavaScript components
    └── web-components
        └── bundle/
            ├── all.js      All web components bundled together (standalone file)
            ├── base.js     Base code necessary for loading individual web component bundles
            └── ds-*.js     Individual web component bundles