The following documentation is only for the maintainers of this repository.
- Monorepo setup
- Project overview
- Installation
- Develop the shell packages
- Release the packages
- Deploy the sample applications
- Available commands
- CI
- Add a new package to the monorepo
This repository is managed as a monorepo with PNPM workspace to handle the installation of the npm dependencies and manage the packages interdependencies.
It's important to note that PNPM workspace doesn't hoist the npm dependencies at the root of the workspace as most package manager does. Instead, it uses an advanced symlinked node_modules structure. This means that you'll find a node_modules
directory inside the packages folders as well as at the root of the repository.
The main difference to account for is that the devDependencies
must now be installed locally in every package package.json
file rather than in the root package.json
file.
This project is split into two major sections, packages/ and samples/.
Under packages/ are the actual packages composing the federated application shell.
Under samples/ are applications to test the Squide functionalities while developing.
You'll find two samples:
basic
: A sample application showcasing the basic features or Squide.endpoints
: A more complexe sample application showcasing the different usecases related to data fetching and localization.
This project uses PNPM, therefore, you must install PNPM v9+ first:
npm install -g pnpm
To install the Squide project, open a terminal at the root of the workspace and execute the following command:
pnpm install
Retype is the documentation platform that Squide is using for its documentation. As this project is leveraging a few Pro features of Retype.
Everything should work fine as-is but there are a few limitations to use Retype Pro features without a wallet with a licence. If you want to circumvent these limitations, you can optionally, setup your Retype wallet.
To do so, first make sure that you retrieve the Retype license from your Vault (or ask IT).
Then, open a terminal at the root of the workspace and execute the following command:
npx retype wallet --add <your-license-key-here>
We recommend opening two VSCode terminals to develop the packages.
With the first terminal, execute the following script:
pnpm dev
With the second terminal, start one of the sample application with either the following script:
pnpm dev-basic
or
pnpm dev-endpoints
You can then open your favorite browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/
to get a live preview of your code.
To test that a remote module is working correctly, navigate to the remote module entry file. For a remote module hosted on the port
8081
, the URL should behttp://localhost:8081/remoteEntry.js
.
When you are ready to release the packages, you must follow the following steps:
- Run
pnpm changeset
and follow the prompt. For versioning, always follow the SemVer standard. - Commit the newly generated file in your branch and submit a new Pull Request (PR). Changesets will automatically detect the changes and post a message in your pull request telling you that once the PR closes, the versions will be released.
- Find someone to review your PR.
- Merge the Pull request into
main
. A GitHub action will automatically trigger and update the version of the packages and publish them to npm. A tag will also be created on GitHub tagging your PR merge commit.
Make sure you're Git is clean (No pending changes).
Make sure GitHub Action has write access to the selected npm packages.
If the packages failed to compile, it's easier to debug without executing the full release flow every time. To do so, instead, execute the following command:
pnpm build
By default, packages compilation output will be in their respective dist directory.
If you got linting error, most of the time, they can be fixed automatically using eslint . --fix
, if not, follow the report provided by pnpm lint
.
The sites for this sample application are hosted on Netlify:
To deploy the sample application, open a terminal at the root of the repository and execute the following script:
deploy-basic
A prompt with a few questions will appear and then the site will automatically be deployed to production.
The sites for this sample application are hosted on Netlify:
To deploy the sample application, open a terminal at the root of the repository and execute the following script:
deploy-endpoints
A prompt with a few questions will appear and then the sites will automatically be deployed to production.
Then, execute the following script:
deploy-endpoints-isolated
Another prompt with a few questions will appear and then the sites will automatically be deployed to production.
From the project root, you have access to many commands. The most important ones are:
Build the shell packages for development and start the watch processes.
pnpm dev
Build the sample "basic" application for development and start the dev servers.
pnpm dev-basic
Build the sample "application with "endpoints" for development and start the dev servers.
pnpm dev-endpoints
Build the Retype documentation for development and start the Retype dev server. If you are experiencing issue with the license, refer to the setup Retype section.
pnpm dev-docs
Build the packages for release.
pnpm build
Build the sample "basic" application for release.
pnpm build-basic
Build the sample application with "endpoints" for release.
pnpm build-endpoints
Build for an isolated setup the sample application with "endpoints" for release.
pnpm build-endpoints
Build the sample "basic" application for deployment and start a local web server to serve the application.
pnpm serve-basic
Build the sample application with "endpoints" for deployment and start a local web server to serve the application.
pnpm serve-endpoints
Run the shell packages unit tests.
pnpm test
Lint the shell packages files.
pnpm lint
To use when you want to publish a new package version. Will display a prompt to fill in the information about your new release.
pnpm changeset
Clean the shell packages and the sample application (delete dist
folder, clear caches, etc..)
pnpm clean
Reset the monorepo installation (delete dist
folders, clear caches, delete node_modules
folders, etc..)
pnpm reset
Checks for outdated dependencies. For more information, view PNPM documentation.
pnpm list-outdated-deps
Update outdated dependencies to their latest version. For more information, view PNPM documentation.
pnpm update-outdated-deps
We use GitHub Actions for this repository.
You can find the configuration in the .github/workflows folder and the build results are available here.
We currently have 3 builds configured:
This action runs on a push on the main
branch. If there is a file present in the .changeset
folder, it will publish the new package version on npm.
This action will trigger when a commit is done in a PR to main
or after a push to main
and will run build
, lint-ci
and test
commands on the source code.
This action will trigger when a commit is done in a PR to main
or after a push to main
. The action will generate the documentation website into the retype
branch. This repository Github Pages is configured to automatically deploy the website from the retype
branch.
If you are having issue with the Retype license, make sure the RETYPE_API_KEY
Github secret contains a valid Retype license.
There are a few steps to add new packages to the monorepo.
Before you add a new package, please read the Workleap GitHub guidelines.
First, create a new folder matching the package name in the packages folder.
Open a terminal, navigate to the newly created folder, and execute the following command:
pnpm init
Answer the CLI questions.
Once the package.json
file is generated, please read again the Workleap GitHub guidelines and make sure the package name, author and license are valid.
Don't forget to add the npm scope "@squide"
before the package name. For example, if the project name is "foo", your package name should be @squide/foo
.
Make sure the package publish access is public by adding the following to the package.json
file:
{
"publishConfig": {
"access": "public"
}
}
Make sure to add a sideEffect
field to the package.json
file:
{
"sideEffects": false
}
Most of the time, the value will be false
but if your package contains CSS or any other side effect, make sure to set the value accordingly.
npm dependencies and peerDependencies must be added to the package own package.json file.