React Rollup Boilerplate
Boilerplate for creating React component libraries, bundled with Rollup.js to ESM and/or CJS Modules, Storybook, Typescript
Overview
This article provides instructions and guidance for getting started with a development repository, including installation, developing components, testing, linting, and publishing the library. It also provides information on additional resources such as bundler Rollup.js, code formatter Prettier, testing framework Jest, and linting tools ESLint and stylelint.
Features
- Developing: Build a version of the library, run the watcher, and open Storybook for manual testing.
- Proposals (Babel): Includes Babel plugins for smoother development.
- Styling your components: Supports SCSS and CSS out of the box, with the ability to import styles into components.
- Testing: Uses Jest and @testing-library/react for testing components.
- Linting: Set up with ESLint and configured with eslint-config-react-app and eslint-config-prettier for code quality.
- Publishing your library to NPM: Provides instructions for releasing the library to NPM or a private registry.
- Storybook: Allows for custom layouts, styling, and more information about Storybook.
- Deploy Storybook to GitHub Pages: Provides instructions for deploying the Storybook to GitHub Pages.
Summary
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Vite
Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Rollup
RollupJS is a popular and efficient JavaScript module bundler that takes the code from multiple modules and packages them into a single optimized file, minimizing the overall size of the application and improving its performance.
- Storybook
Storybook is a tool for developing and testing UI components in isolation. It provides a sandbox environment where you can experiment with different props and states to see how your component responds.
- Stylelint
Stylelint is a modern linter for CSS that helps you avoid errors and enforce consistent styling conventions. It provides rules for detecting errors and warnings, and can be configured to match your specific project's requirements.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
