Embeddable Signup Form

Embed a Ghost signup form on any site.

Development

Pre-requisites

• Run yarn in Ghost monorepo root
• Run yarn in this directory

Running via Ghost yarn dev in root folder

You can automatically start the signup-form dev server when developing Ghost by running Ghost (in root folder) via yarn dev --all. This will only build the production build, without the demo site.

Running via yarn dev --all --signup or yarn dev --signup will also serve the demo site on http://localhost:6173.

Running the development version only

Run yarn dev (in package folder) to start the development server to test/develop the form standalone.

• This will generate a demo site on http://localhost:6173
• This will build and watch the production build and host it on http://localhost:6174/signup-form.min.js (different port!)

Using the UMD build during development

Vite by default only supports HRM with an ESM output. But when loading a script on a site as a ESM module (<script type="module" src="...">), you don't have access to document.currentScript inside the script, which is required to determine the location to inject the iframe. In development mode we use a workaround for this to make the ESM HMR work. But this workaround is not suitable for production.

To test the real production behaviour without this hack, you can use http://localhost:6173/preview.html. This HTML page will use http://localhost:6174/signup-form.min.js directly.

Develop

This is a monorepo package.

Follow the instructions for the top-level repo.

1. git clone this repo & cd into it as usual
2. Run yarn to install top-level dependencies.

Test

• yarn lint run just eslint
• yarn test run lint and tests
• yarn test:e2e run e2e tests on Chromium
• yarn test:slowmo run e2e tests visually (headed) and slower on Chromium
• yarn test:e2e:full run e2e tests on all browsers

Release

A patch release can be rolled out instantly in production, whereas a minor/major release requires the Ghost monorepo to be updated and released. In either case, you need sufficient permissions to release @tryghost packages on NPM.

Patch release

1. Run yarn ship and select a patch version when prompted
2. Merge the release commit to main

Minor / major release

1. Run yarn ship and select a minor or major version when prompted
2. Merge the release commit to main
3. Wait until a new version of Ghost is released

To use the new version of signup form in Ghost, update the version in Ghost core's default configuration (currently at core/shared/config/default.json)