Forma 36 - The Contentful Design System
Forma 36 is an open-source design system by Contentful created with the intent to reduce the overhead of creating UI by providing tools and guidance for digital teams building and extending Contentful products
Table of contents
- Table of contents
- Packages
- Development
- Commits & releases
- Testing with your own project locally
- Get involved
- Reach out to us
- License
- Code of Conduct
- Contributors ✨
Packages
Forma 36 is a monorepo structured into different packages and maintained using Lerna. The packages available are:
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forma-36-websiteThis package includes the design system documentation which offers guidelines, best practices and examples. -
forma-36-react-componentsA React component library built with Storybook. -
forma-36-fcssCSS utility classes for spacing, typography, colors and transitions. -
forma-36-tokensThis package includes all the visual tokens (e.g. colors, margins, font sizes, etc) that used in the react library
Creating new packages
We use use Plop to create scripts that help you to scaffold new packages. In the root of the repo, you can run yarn generate. Then follow the steps in the CLI. Plop will generate the relevant files and add the relevant imports and exports to the main src/index.ts file required to make the component available when publishing the library.
Development
For local development, in the root of the repo run yarn to install all dependencies and then yarn build to build all packages. Now follow the instructions of the specific package you’re working on.
You will find each package’s instructions in their README files, check the Packages section for a list of all packages.
In case you are having problems to install the dependencies, try using NVM to get the same node version we use by running
nvm usein the root of the repo
Storybook for forma-36-react-components
We use storybook with our react component library to develop components. You can start it from the root of the repo, just run yarn storybook
Commits & releases
Use yarn commit. This uses the Commitzen CLI to create a conventional commit message based on your changes. CI is setup to release all new commits on the master branch.
Testing with your own project locally
You can test changes to a package of this monorepo in your own project locally by taking the following steps:
- Run
yarn buildin the desired package's directory to ensure your latest changes have been built - Run
yarn linkin the desired package's directory - Change to your local project's directory and run
yarn link NAME_OF_PACKAGEto link to the local version of the package (e.g.yarn link @contentful/forma-36-react-components)
Get involved
We appreciate any help on our repositories. For more details about how to contribute to a package, see the README of the corresponding package.
Reach out to us
You can reach out to us using the Contentful community Slack. We've setup a channel #forma36 in which we announce latest changes and updates.
You found a bug or want to propose a feature?
Create an issue using one of the templates 
License
This repository is published under the MIT license.
Code of Conduct
We want to provide a safe, inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free space and experience for all participants, regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, socioeconomic status, body size, ethnicity, nationality, level of experience, age, religion (or lack thereof), or other identity markers.
Read our full Code of Conduct.
Contributors ✨
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!