Tech stack

• ⚛️ Create React App (🛃 TypeScript version)
• 📚 Storybook JS
• 🎨 Tailwind CSS (UI components are exported with Tailwind Classes)

Quick start

1. Add package to your project

   Install the dependency.

   # Install
   yarn add @addo-network/design-system

2. Import

   Start using the Design System UI components

   // LinkButton.stories.tsx
   import { LinkButton, LinkButtonProps } from '@addo-network/design-system/'

3. import Design System global style colors to tailwind.config.js

   const designSystem = require('@addo-network/design-system')
   
   module.exports = {
   theme: {
     colors: {
       'neutral-dark': designSystem.styles.colors['neutral-dark'],
       'neutral-gray': designSystem.styles.colors['neutral-gray'],
       'neutral-white': designSystem.styles.colors['neutral-white'],
       success: designSystem.styles.colors.success,
       danger: designSystem.styles.colors.danger,
       warning: designSystem.styles.colors.warning,
       info: designSystem.styles.colors.info,
       muted: designSystem.styles.colors.muted
     }
   }

   typography and icons are also available.

Storybook

Add the Design System components to your project's Storybook. We can do that by updating .storybook/main.js to the following:

// .storybook/main.js
const designSystem = require('@addo-network/design-system')

module.exports = {
  stories: ['../src/**/*.stories.@(js|jsx|ts|tsx)'],
  refs: {
   'design-system': {
     title: 'My design system',
     //👇 The url provided by Chromatic when the Design System was deployed
     url: designSystem.design_system_url,
   },
 },
  addons: [
    '@storybook/addon-links',
    '@storybook/addon-essentials',
    '@storybook/preset-create-react-app',
  ],
};

Philosophy

Design systems should only contain pure and presentational components. These components deal with how UI appears. They respond exclusively to props, do not contain app-specific business logic, and are agnostic to how data loads. These properties are essential in allowing the component to be reusable.

App-specific components that contain business logic should not be included because that hamstrings reuse by requiring consumer projects to have identical business constraints.

Storybook Doc

1. Storybook tutorials.
2. Design Systems for Developers tutorial.
3. Official documentation: Storybook.

TODO:

• Only have one file of truth, right now we have tailwind.config.js and ./src/components/styleguide/styles.ts
• Documentation to update the package in your project.
• Documentation for typography and icons import into your project.
• Use TailwindCSS Presets https://tailwindcss.com/docs/presets
• CI/CD with Github actions, NPM auto publish, and Chromatic to host Storybook.

Documentation used to build this Design System

• https://medium.com/@jchiam/publishing-a-typescript-react-component-to-npm-d3cc15b8d0a2
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Jr6w0W1xw
• https://storybook.js.org/tutorials/design-systems-for-developers
• https://rfitz.io/blog/tailwind-with-react/