Pounce

🐯A Set of Composable React Primitives for Building UI Dashboards

Description

This project contains common UI components for building dashboards written in TypeScript. It's currently used by Panther

Docs

Documentation is available on http://pouncejs.surge.sh/.

Installation

Pounce heavily depends on Typescript and thus has a limitation of Typescript 3.8.x. Please make sure that your project does't use an older version of Typescript.

$ npm install pouncejs

Usage

Quick Start

1. To start, wrap your app with the ThemeProvider components:

import { ThemeProvider } from 'pouncejs';

const App = () => (
    <ThemeProvider>
       <Router>
         ...
       </Router
    </ThemeProvider>
)

2. Install DM Sans:

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=DM+Sans:400,500,700&display=swap"
/>

3. Then you are ready to go!

import { Box, Button } from 'pouncejs';

Advanced

To use the library you'll need to wrap your app with the <ThemeProvider> so that your components can have access to the theme. By default <ThemeProvider> utilises the default Theme that Pounce exposes, but you can easily override that by passing a theme prop to it.

This can be done like so:

import { ThemeProvider } from 'pouncejs';
import theme from '../my/theme.js';

const App = () => (
    <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
       <Router>
         ...
       </Router
    </ThemeProvider>
)

Make sure to wrap your entire app with a <ThemeProvider> to avoid un-necessary reconsiliations and to gain in performance.

The next step would be to make sure you have your selected font-family installed. By default, Pounce uses DM Sans as it fits the default theme the best. If you are using the default theme, make sure you install DM Sans in your prefered way. The easiest of them all is by adding a link tag in your html:

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=DM+Sans:400,500,700&display=swap"
/>

If you want to use another font-family, simply install it and make sure to mimic this change in the theme that you will provide to <ThemeProvider />. The change that you need to make is in the fonts.primary key of the theme. For example:

import { defaultTheme } from 'pouncejs';

export const myTheme = {
  ...defaultTheme,
  fonts: {
    ...defaultTheme.fonts,
    primary: 'Lato, sans-serif',
  },
};

This way you can keep all the defaults and only change the font-family exposed. You can also add keys to the theme if you want to have a centralised theme configuration that can also be used outside the context of pounce:

import { defaultTheme } from 'pouncejs';

export const myTheme = {
  ...defaultTheme,
  fonts: {
    ...defaultTheme.fonts,
    secondary: 'Inconsolata, monospace',
  },
};

Performance

Pounce is on its testing phase right now, which means that the performance is not optimized and the bundle size is not a core pillar of the development since it relies on 3rd-party packages for some of its modules. There is a plan to gradually migrate those away and to focus on the performance of the actual lib.

If bundle size is something super crucial, you can safely import each module individually by doing import Box from 'pouncejs/dist/esm/components/Box' instead of the typical import { Box } from 'pouncejs' which will make sure to only pull what's needed for this particular component.

As it stands, it utilizes the latest @emotion/xxx @ 11.x.x internally, so if you are using a CSS-in-JS library in your project, it would be recommended to utilize the same library at a similar major version in order to not have two separate versions of a CSS-in-JS library in your project

License

Apache