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LPM

LPM stands for Layout Package Manager (it is indeed an acronym). The Core of the project is the Layout-JSON format, a markup format to describe cross-language layouts:

See the Layout-JSON specification

This repository contains:

Information: format specifications, links to the project's repositories
Element component for ReactJS - renders the Layout-JSON markup

Incentive

To improve the process of developing new layouts by borrowing successful code practices:

Package management: install layout packages, publish new layouts
Transpilers: transform Layout-JSON to other popular formats
Tools: online editors, gists , import/export plugins (for Sketch, Webstorm, etc.)

Specifications

Packages: support unique identifiers, simple versioning, description package specification
Markup: support responsive layouts, variables, placeholders Layout-JSON specification
Transpilers: to HTML / SASS, ReactJS and React Native

Repositories

Current projects:

Core

lpm Layout-JSON specification, Element component, transpilers
lpm-transpilers transform Layout-JSON to HTML/SASS, ReactJS, React Native

Components

style-panel easy CSS editing for developers (keyboard based)
flex-editor layout WYSIWYG editor in ReactJS
infinite-surface a ReactJS container with pan and zoom

Services

currently empty

Future projects:

lpmjs: Package Manager Server lpmjs.com
lpm-cli: install packages from terminal
rnbin: collaborative gists for React Native rnbin.com
htmlbin: collaborative gists for HTML/SASS htmlbin.com
jupiter: visual artboards for large projects
sketch-lpm: Sketch plugin to export layouts from sketch

Element Component

npm install lpm-core

Example

https://dht.github.io/lpm

Usage

Here is a quick example to get you started:

Import

 import Element from 'lpm-core/Element';

Simple

<div style={{width: '400px',position: 'fixed',top: 0,left: 0,marginLeft: '60px',zIndex: 999,backgroundColor: 'white',boxShadow: '0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.1)',borderRadius: '1px'}}>
    <Element id={ 1 }
        statePath={ 'elements/elements' }
        onElementClick={(element_id, parent_id, element_type, ev)=>{}}
        onElementDblClick={(element_id, parent_id, element_type, ev)=>{}}
    />
</div>

Note: statePath is the path to the elements in the redux store.

Contribution

To run locally install all the dependencies:

dev:

npm install

peer:

npm install react@^15.4.1 react-dom@^15.4.1

run with npm:

npm start

and open:http://localhost:3000

Furthor development

Firbase integration ideas

With Firebase's socket-based service, LPM project may explore the following ideas:

Live collaboration: see others as they build layouts, build layouts in teams
Real-time UI: layouts loaded in real time by the user's client. A modal component for instance which takes a modal-identifier and loads a modal from Firebase.
Tutorials (with redux): replay a process of layout building, learn how it was done

We will soon try to build a dashboard with Real-time UI and composite layouts.