@qaware-oss/scale-react-neutral v0.2.0

@qaware-oss/scale-react-neutral

This project aims to reimplement the web components of Telekom Scale as dedicated react components using the original css. This library replaces @telekom/scale-components-react-neutral.

Usage

The project is available in the central npm repository. Just add the following snippet to your package.json:

"dependencies": {
    "@qaware-oss/scale-react-neutral": "^0.2.0",
}

CSS

In your index.tsx or App.tsx, import the base css:

import '@qaware-oss/scale-react-neutral/dist/qaware-scale-react.css';
import '@telekom/scale-components-neutral/dist/scale-components/scale-components.css';

Components

In your code import and use the components like this:

import {ScaleTextarea} from '@qaware-oss/scale-react-neutral';

The source contains Storybook examples for every component, showing its usage. In general, the components attempt to match the original Scale API as closely as possible.

Build

If you want to build the project yourself, just run npm install && npm run build

Motivation

The Scale components are implemented as native web components. For using the components with react, auto generated wrapper components are provided. These wrapper components unfortunately suffer from some major drawbacks.

Missing reactivity

React components are expected to always react to the values provided by their parent component. An <input value="Foo" /> must always display the value "Foo" regardless of user interaction.

The Scale react components do not behave this way. A Scale input <ScaleTextField value="Foo" > is still editable by the user, i.e. its intrinsic state is not properly driven by the attributes given to it from the outside.

No integration into React event system

The Scale react components run on their own event system. Types used for event parameters are different from the default React event types. Event bubbling does not work correctly, since the two event systems do not know of each other.

No support for react-router-dom

Internal links in a typical React application are handled by react-router-dom, using <Link to="/" /> elements. The scale react components only allow <a href="/" /> elements. This forces the developer to convert react-router-dom links to regular hrefs, loosing some benefits of react-router-dom.

Components not managed by React

With the original Scale react-components, React only renders the web-component tag which is then hydrated by custom Scale Javascript. React does not know about the externally rendered html code inside the web components in wipes the code when the component is re-rendered by react. This can lead to serious performance issues where Scale web components are continuously re-rendered by React and then rehydrated by Scale.

Available components

In addition, all icons from the neutral theme are available as react components.