🚀 Start UI [web] is an opinionated frontend starter repository created & maintained by the BearStudio Team and other contributors. It represents our team's up-to-date stack that we use when creating web apps for our clients.
npx create-start-ui --web myAppThat will scaffold a new folder with the latest version of 🚀 Start UI [web] 🎉
Then just go to the created folder and start the dev server.
cd myApp
yarn dev- 🟦 TypeScript
- ⚛️ React
- ▲ NextJS (with Static Export)
- 📕 Storybook
- ⚛️ React Router
- ⚡️ Chakra UI
- ⚛️ React Query
- 🐜 Formiz
- 💥 React Error Boundary
- ⭐️ React Icons
- 🌍 React i18next
- 🔽 React Select
- 🔢 React Currency Input Field
- ↔ Axios
- 📅 Day.js
ℹ️ API calls are mapped on a JHipster backend application.
- Reponsive layout / navigation.
- Sign / Sign Up / Password recovery screens.
- Account profile / Change Password screens.
- Users management admin screens (CRUD).
- Multi-languages (English & French built-in).
- Custom Chakra UI theme with preview of customized components in Storybook.
- Extra UI components with Storybook documentation.
- Fields components for Formiz.
- Dark mode support with Storybook toggle.
- App version & Environment name in the UI.
- API Schema documentation via Swagger UI React.
- API Mocking with persisting state via MirageJS.
yarn install
yarn buildyarn devyarn storybookDevelopment with MirageJS (mock)
This is the default behavior.
Do not set the NEXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL variable in the .env file at the root of the project.
Development with a JHipster backend
Create a .env file at the root of the project with the following content:
NEXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/api
Setup the NEXT_PUBLIC_DEV_ENV_NAME env variable with the name of the environment.
NEXT_PUBLIC_DEV_ENV_NAME=staging
NEXT_PUBLIC_DEV_ENV_COLOR_SCHEME=teal
API documentation is accessible by admins in the app with Swagger-UI.
yarn docs:build
This will build the json documentation from the main file /src/mocks/openapi/openapi.yaml.
We recommended using the i18n Ally plugin for VS Code for translations management.
Create or edit the .vscode/settings.json file with the following settings:
{
"i18n-ally.localesPaths": ["src/locales"],
"i18n-ally.keystyle": "nested",
"i18n-ally.enabledFrameworks": ["general", "react", "i18next"],
"i18n-ally.namespace": true,
"i18n-ally.defaultNamespace": "common",
"i18n-ally.extract.autoDetect": true,
"i18n-ally.keysInUse": ["common.languages.*"]
}- Use namespaces
t('namespace:translationKey')and nestingt('namespace:this.is.nested').
// Example for translations available in account.json
t('account:data.firstname.label')- For fields and data translations use a
dataobject.
// account.json
{
"data": {
"firstname": {
"label": "First Name",
"required": "First Name is required",
},
}
}// React
t('account:data.firstname.label')
t('account:data.firstname.required')- For user feedbacks, use a
feedbacksobject withactionSuccess&actionErrorkeys containing eachtitleanddescription(optional).
// account.json
{
"resetPassword": {
"feedbacks": {
"confirmSuccess": {
"title": "Your password has been reset",
"description": "You can now login"
},
"confirmError": {
"title": "Reset password failed"
}
}
}
}// React
t('account:resetPassword.feedbacks.updateSuccess.title')
t('account:resetPassword.feedbacks.updateSuccess.description')
t('account:resetPassword.feedbacks.updateError.title')- For user actions, use an
actionsobject.
// account.json
{
"resetPassword": {
"actions": {
"send": "Send Email",
"reset": "Reset Password"
}
}
}// React
t('account:resetPassword.actions.send')
t('account:resetPassword.actions.reset')- Use the common workspace only for VERY generic translations. By default, use specific namespaces to allow easy update on large code base without unwanted side-effects.
yarn storybook:build # Optional: Will expose the Storybook at `/storybook`
yarn build
yarn startyarn storybook:build # Optional: Will expose the Storybook at `/storybook/index.html`
yarn static:buildThen expose the /out folder.
💡 You will need to setup your server to rewrite all /app/* urls to serve the app.html file.
React is a JavaScript library created in 2013 to build reactive user interfaces. At the time of writing, React is probably the front end library the most used to create new projects and has a huge community which is beneficial for the maintainability of the project in terms of developers and online resources.
Next.js gives you the best developer experience with all the features you need for production: hybrid static & server rendering, TypeScript support, smart bundling, route pre-fetching, and more. No config needed.
Next.js is bundled with its own router, but at the time of writing those lines, it does not allow nested routes using a shared layout.
JavaScript is a not typed language. TypeScript is here to help add static type definition. TypeScript helps a lot when it comes to types, interfaces and define contract between functions which helps a lot for a reliable documentation. No worry, the TypeScript adoption is incremental and writing in TypeScript is not mandatory to use Start UI, but it is a good practice to do so to avoid bugs in the future.
React Query is a powerful tool
to do efficient data synchronization for React. No need of Redux
or another global state manager anymore. Usable with fetch,
axios, or graphql-request,
React Query will do the work and is agnostic of the method you will use.
Storybook is an Open Source tool to help you develop framework agnostic components in isolation and document them.
Chakra UI is a simple, modular, composable and accessible component library that is highly customizable.
To create React forms, there is a lot of libraries out there. Formiz will help you create React forms with ease! Composable, headless & with built-in multi steps.