Getting Started

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App but the app has been ejected so build scripts etc. are all in the repo now.

Environment variables

The app uses the dotenv package to provide access to environment variables. Copy the example files into the correct place:

cp .env.example .env

cp .env.webcomponent.example .env.webcomponent

Variables for the web application need to go into the .env file. Variables for the web component can be placed in .env.webcomponent.

Private repo setup (.npmrc)

The app requires a Git token for access to private repos (currently limited to design-system-react).

• Generated a token here, it'll be prefixed with ghp_: https://github.com/settings/tokens
• Add a line to the bottom of ~/.npmrc (this is in addition to the one in the repo): //npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=<github_token>

This will then be mounted as a secret in docker, and used to authenticate against the package repo.

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

yarn start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3010 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

yarn test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

yarn build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

Testing

Automated unit tests can be run via the yarn test command. These unit tests are written using the JavaScript testing framework Jest and make use of the tools provided by the React Testing Library. Automated accessibility testing for components is available via the jest-axe library. This can be achieved using the haveNoViolations matcher provided by jest-axe, although this does not guarantee that the tested components have no accessibility issues.

Integration testing is carried out via cypress and can be run using the yarn exec cypress run commmand. Currently, there are basic cypress tests for the standalone editor site, the web component and Mission Zero-related functionality. These can be found in the cypress/e2e directory. Screenshots and videos related to the most recent cypress test run can be found in cypress/screenshots and cypress/videos respectively.

Web Component

The repo includes the Editor Web Component which shares components with the editor application but has a separate build process.

Embedding

The web component can be included in a page by using the <editor-wc> HTML element. It takes the following attributes

• code: A preset blob of code to show in the editor pane.
• sense_hat_always_enabled: Show the Astro Pi Sense HAT emulator on page load
• load_remix_disabled: Do not load a logged-in user's remixed version of the project specified by identifier even if one exists (defaults to false)
• project_name_editable: Allow the user to edit the project name in the project bar (defaults to false)

yarn start:wc

Runs the web component in development mode. Open http://localhost:3011 to view it in the browser.

NB You need to have the main yarn start process running too.

It is possible to add query strings to control how the web component is configured. Any HTML attribute can be set on the query string, including class, style etc.

For example, to load the page with the Sense Hat always showing, add ?sense_hat_always_enabled to the URL

Styling

There are several mechanisms that can be utilised to style part or all of the web component. Due to the nature of the web component, styles can either be applied to the web component itself or to the page that contains the web component.

Styling internally

Internal styles can be utilised and shared between the standalone editor and the web component. These styles are passed to the web component via the style attribute as a string and can be found in WebComponentProject.js which uses InternalStyles.scss and ExternalStyles.scss to style the web component.

Internal styles can be utilised due to a --scale-factor being set on font size and spacing variables and an update to the base font size being set at the appropriate size i.e. in WebComponent.scss. This enables the use of the existing font and spacing variables as well as the em unit, allowing the web component to utilise the same definitions as the standalone editor.

NB due to rem using the font-size from the root it is unable to be overwritten in the shadow root so it should be avoided. Wherever possible use the existing calculations with the --scale-factor or em (however beware of nested relative sizing).

Styling externally

Styles from the parent application can be passed to the web component in a few different ways:

• The web component utilises a shadow DOM, this creates a shadow root element in the DOM which is separate from the main DOM. It does however copy and create a new DOM tree from the main DOM with all styles applied to the root in the main DOM available in the shadow root.

• A class can be applied to the custom element wc-editor which allows the parent application to style the web component container. This can be done by using the class attribute on the custom element. NB This attribute is class NOT className.

• Other styles from the parent application will not be inherited by the web component. However, the web component can be styled by the parent application by using the ::part pseudo-element selector. This allows the parent application to style the web component by targeting the web component's shadow DOM. For example, the following CSS will style the web component's #root element (due to the part attribute definition in web-component.js):

::part(editor-root) {
  // allows variables to be passed into the shadow dom
  @include sauce-theme-primary-vars();
  @include sauce-theme-secondary-vars();
  // allows you to set custom variables inside the shadow dom
  --editor-primary-theme: var(--theme-primary);
  --editor-secondary-theme: var(--theme-secondary);
  // background: var(--theme-secondary); // variables can then be applied inside the shadow dom
  // enables the parent application to control the size of the web components root element
  display: block;
  flex: 1 1 auto;
  max-block-size: 100dvh;
}

Instructions Styling

Classes from the stringified HTML passed to the web component in the instructions attribute are being used to style the project steps in the instructions panel.

Task Block

Styles for the task block can be applied as follows:

<h2 class="c-project-heading--task">Task heading</h2>
<div class="c-project-task">{task content here}</div>

Callouts

There are three types of callout: tip, debugging and generic. The green tip callout is generated as follows:

<div class="c-project-callout c-project-callout--tip">
  <h3>{Tip title}</h3>
  {tip content here}
</div>

The red debugging callout is generated as follows:

<div class="c-project-callout c-project-callout--debug">
  <h3>{Debugging title}</h3>
  {debugging content here}
</div>

The blue generic callout is the default if no modifier is specifed:

<div class="c-project-callout">{callout content here}</div>

Output

This class renders a bordered div with monospaced text that resembles Python output. Other font styles and images are not yet supported.

<div class="c-project-output">{output content}</div>

Code snippets

Python code snippets are styled and syntax-highlighted using the language-python class:

<code class="language-python">print('hello world')</code>

Deployment

Deployment is managed through Github actions. The UI is deployed to staging and production environments via an S3 bucket. This requires the following environment variables to be set

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_REGION
• AWS_S3_BUCKET
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Other variables that pertain to the app, rather than its deployment are set with defaults in the build-and-deploy workflow. These are also in .env.example.

Review apps

Currently the build is deployed to both S3 and Heroku. The PR should get updated with the Heroku URL, and the web component demo is at /web-component.html on the Heroku review app domain.

Release Process

A new release of editor-ui is created via following process:

1. Create a branch on Github for the release.
2. Update CHANGELOG.md with new version number and date in the list of changes under Unreleased.
3. At the bottom of CHANGELOG.md, add a link for the new version and update the Unreleased link to point to the latest version…HEAD.
4. Update the version number in package.json to the new version number.
5. Push these changes to the release branch on Github.
6. Create a PR on Github for the release branch and put the CHANGELOG diff for the new release in the description.
7. Get someone to approve the PR and then merge.
8. Within the releases tab, create a new tag with the version number of the new release with the target set to main.
9. Give the release the same name as the tag and paste the CHANGELOG diff in the description.
10. Set the release to be the latest release and publish.
11. Go to Cloudflare and under Workers > KV select editor and change the production-ref to releases/<new_version_number>.
12. Go to editor.raspberrypi.org to see the new changes on production... 🚀