Patternfly Seed

Patternfly Seed is an open source build scaffolding utility for web apps. The primary purpose of this project is to give developers a jump start when creating new projects that will use patternfly. A secondary purpose of this project is to serve as a reference for how to configure various aspects of an application that uses patternfly, webpack, react, typescript, etc.

Out of the box you'll get an app layout with chrome (header/sidebar), routing, build pipeline, test suite, and some code quality tools. Basically, all the essentials.

Quick-start

npm install yarn -g # ensure you have yarn on your machine globally
git clone https://github.com/patternfly/patternfly-react-seed # clone the project
cd patternfly-react-seed # navigate into the project directory
yarn # install patternfly-react-seed dependencies
yarn build # build the project
yarn start # start the development server

Development Scripts

Install development/build dependencies yarn

Start the development server yarn start

Run a production build yarn build

Run the test suite yarn test

Run the linter yarn lint

Run the code formatter yarn format

Launch a tool to inspect the bundle size yarn bundle-profile:analyze

Configurations

Raster Image Support

To use an image asset that's shipped with patternfly core, you'll prefix the paths with "@assets". @assets is an alias for the patternfly assets directory in node_modules.

For example:

import imgSrc from '@assets/images/g_sizing.png';
<img src={imgSrc} alt="Some image" />

You can use a similar technique to import assets from your local app, just prefix the paths with "@app". @app is an alias for the main src/app directory.

import loader from '@app/assets/images/loader.gif';
<img src={loader} alt="Content loading />

Vector Image Support

Inlining SVG in the app's markup is also possible.

import logo from '@app/assets/images/logo.svg';
<span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: logo}} />

You can also use SVG when applying background images with CSS. To do this, your SVG's must live under a bgimages directory (this directory name is configurable in webpack.common.js). This is necessary because you may need to use SVG's in several other context (inline images, fonts, icons, etc.) and so we need to be able to differentiate between these usages so the appropriate loader is invoked.

body {
  background: url(./assets/bgimages/img_avatar.svg);
}

Code Quality Tools

For accessibility compliance, we use react-axe
To keep our bundle size in check, we use webpack-bundle-analyzer
To keep our code formatting in check, we use prettier
To keep our code logic and test coverage in check, we use jest