PatternFly Virtual Assistant

This repo contains React Virtual assistant implementation.

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Contribution guide

To add a new assistant sub-component:

1. create a folder in src/ matching its name (for example src/MyComponent)
2. to the new folder add a new .tsx file named after the component (for example src/MyComponent/MyComponent.tsx)
3. to the same folder include an index.ts which will export the component as a default and then all necessary interfaces
4. if this file structure is not met, your component won't be exposed correctly

Example component:

import * as React from 'react';
import { Text } from '@patternfly/react-core';
import { createUseStyles } from 'react-jss';

// do not forget to export your component's interface
// always place the component's interface above the component itself in the code
export interface MyComponentProps {
  text: String;
}

const useStyles = createUseStyles({
  myText: {
    fontFamily: 'monospace',
    fontSize: 'var(--pf-v5-global--icon--FontSize--md)',
  },
})

// do not use the named export of your component, just a default one
const MyComponent: React.FunctionComponent<MyComponentProps> = () => {
  const classes = useStyles();

  return (
    <Text className={classes.myText}>
      This is my new component
    </Text>
  );
};

export default MyComponent;

Index file example:

export { default } from './MyComponent';
export * from './MyComponent';

Component directory structure example:

src
|- MyComponent
   |- index.ts
   |- MyComponent.tsx

Component's API rules:

• prop names comply with PatternFly components naming standards (variant, onClick, position, etc.)
• the API is maximally simplified and all props are provided with a description
• it is built on top of existing PatternFly types without prop omitting
• it is well documented using the PatternFly documentation (/packages/module/patternfly-docs/content/extensions/virtual-assistant/examples/MyComponent/MyComponent.md) with examples of all possible use cases (packages/module/patternfly-docs/content/extensions/virtual-assistant/examples/MyComponent/MyComponent[...]Example.tsx)

Component API definition example:

// when possible, extend available PatternFly types
export interface MyComponentProps extends ButtonProps {
    customLabel: Boolean
};

export const MyComponent: React.FunctionComponent<MyComponentProps> = ({ customLabel, ...props }) => ( ... );

Markdown file example:

---
section: extensions
subsection: Virtual assistant
id: MyComponent
propComponents: ['MyComponent']
---

import MyComponent from "@patternfly/virtual-assistant/dist/dynamic/MyComponent";

## Component usage

MyComponent has been created to demo contributing to this repository.

### MyComponent component example label

```js file="./MyComponentExample.tsx"```

Component usage file example: (MyComponentExample.tsx)

import React from 'react';

const MyComponentExample: React.FunctionComponent = () => (
  <MyComponent customLabel="My label">
);

export default BatteryLowExample;

Sub-components:

When adding a component for which it is advantageous to divide it into several sub-components make sure:

• component and all its sub-components are located in separate files and directories straight under the src/ folder
• sub-components are exported and documented separately from their parent
• parent component should provide a way to pass props to all its sub-components

The aim is to enable the user of our "complex" component to use either complete or take advantage of its sub-components and manage their composition independently.

Testing:

When adding/making changes to a component, always make sure your code is tested:

• use React Testing Library for unit testing
• add unit tests to a [ComponentName].test.tsx file to your component's directory
• make sure all the core functionality is covered using Cypress component or E2E tests
• add component tests to cypress/component/[ComponentName].cy.tsx file and E2E tests to cypress/e2e/[ComponentName].spec.cy.ts
• add ouiaId to component props definition with a default value of the component name (for subcomponents, let's use ComponentName-element-specification naming convention e.g. ouiaId="VirtualAssistant-send-button")

Styling:

• for styling always use JSS
• new classNames should be named in camelCase starting with the name of a given component and following with more details clarifying its purpose/component's subsection to which the class is applied (actionMenu, actionMenuDropdown, actionMenuDropdownToggle, etc.)
• do not use pf-v5-u-XXX classes, use CSS variables in a custom class instead (styles for the utility classes are not bundled with the standard patternfly.css - it would require the consumer to import also addons.css)

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Building for production

• run npm install
• run npm run build

Development

• run npm install
• run npm run start to build and start the development server

Testing and Linting

• run npm run test to run the tests
• run npm run lint to run the linter

A11y testing

• run npm run build:docs followed by npm run serve:docs, then run npm run test:a11y in a new terminal window to run our accessibility tests. Once the accessibility tests have finished running you can run
• npm run serve:a11y to locally view the generated report