Gentics UI Core

This is the common core framework for the Gentics CMS and Mesh UI, and other Angular applications.

Using ui-core in a project

1. Install via npm:

npm install gentics-ui-core --save

2. Import the module and add it to your app's root module:

// app.module.ts
import { FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { GenticsUICoreModule } from 'gentics-ui-core';

@NgModule({
    // ...
    imports: [
        FormsModule,
        GenticsUICoreModule.forRoot(),
        ReactiveFormsModule
    ]
}
export class AppModule { }

3. Add the <gtx-overlay-host> component to your AppComponent's template if you want to use components that have overlay parts:

<!-- app.component.html -->
<!-- ... -->
<gtx-overlay-host></gtx-overlay-host>

4. If you are using RxJS 6.x, install rxjs-compat:

npm install rxjs-compat --save

View Encapsulation

Do not use any ViewEncapsulation other than ViewEncapsulation.None (which is the default), because some UI Core components use the CSS /deep/ selector.

Lazy Loading of Routes

If you are using lazy loading of routes, the singleton services need to be provided again in the lazily loaded module, because otherwise they will not be found. For example:

// my-lazily-loaded.module.ts
// ...
@NgModule({
    // ...
    providers: [
        ModalService,
        OverlayHostService
        // ...
    ]
})
export class MyLazilyLoadedModule {
    // ...
}

Using ui-core in an angular-cli project

1. Create a new app using angular-cli (this guide assumes angular-cli version 6.x). The following command will create a new app with the name my-example in the folder ./my-example, use me as the prefix for components, set up a routing module, and use SCSS for defining styles. Please note that while a custom prefix and the routing module are optional, SCSS must be used for the styles in order to be compatible with Gentics UI Core.

ng new my-example --prefix me --routing --style scss

2. Uncomment (and if necessary, install) the polyfills required for your target browsers in polyfills.ts and add the following assignment in that file:

/***************************************************************************************************
 * APPLICATION IMPORTS
 */
// This is necessary, because GUIC uses the Intl library, which requires a global object (like in Node.js).
(window as any).global = window;

3. Follow the steps from Using ui-core in a project.

4. Add the following imports to your global styles SCSS:

// styles/main.scss
$icons-font-path: '~gentics-ui-core/dist/fonts/';
$roboto-font-path: '~gentics-ui-core/dist/fonts/';

@import "~gentics-ui-core/dist/styles/variables";
@import "~gentics-ui-core/dist/styles/mixins";
@import "~gentics-ui-core/dist/styles/core";

// ...

You can see the _variables.scss file for a list of variables, which you can override before importing the variables file.

Documentation

Full documentation and examples are available at https://gentics.github.io/gentics-ui-core/

Building the docs app

Although the UI Core is intended to be consumed in a raw (uncompiled) state, there is a demo app included under src/demo which will serve as a "living style guide" as well as a way to manually test each of the core components.

1. npm install
2. gulp docs:build
3. Serve the contents of the docs/ folder

Releasing

1. Bump the version in package.json to the desired value
2. git commit -am 'vX.Y.Z'
3. git tag vX.Y.Z
4. git reset --hard HEAD^
5. git push origin vX.Y.Z master

Publish to npm

1. gulp dist:build
2. npm publish

Maintaining documentation on GitHub pages

Documentation is built as a static Angular app into "docs" and maintained on the branch "gh-pages". The easiest way to manage the branch is to check it out in the "docs" subfolder:

# check out ui-core twice, master in ./ and gh-pages in ./docs
git clone -o github -b gh-pages [email protected]:gentics/gentics-ui-core ./docs
# build the docs
gulp docs:build
# commit and push gh-pages
cd docs
git add .
git commit -m "Update docs to vX.Y.Z"
git push github