While Next.js can handle static sites, we've had a few issues with it, notably a performance hit at runtime and some bugginess around routing and SSR. Gatsby being fully intended for high-performance static sites makes it a great technical fit for the Shields frontend. The `createPages()` API should be a really nice way to add a page for each service family, for example.
This migrates the frontend from Next.js to Gatsby. Gatsby is a powerful tool, which has a bit of downside as there's a lot to dig through. Overall I found configuration easier than Next.js. There are a lot of plugins and for the most part they worked out of the box. The documentation is good.
Links are cleaner now: there is no #. This will break old links though perhaps we could add some redirection to help with that. The only one I’m really concerned about `/#/endpoint`. I’m not sure if folks are deep-linking to the category pages.
There are a lot of enhancements we could add, in order to speed up the site even more. In particular we could think about inlining the SVGs rather than making separate requests for each one.
While Gatsby recommends GraphQL, it's not required. To keep things simple and reduce the learning curve, I did not use it here.
Close#1943Fix#2837Fix#2616
- With examples using `pattern`s, allow building the URL from its component parts, including the query string.
- Provide a button to copy the link, with an animation.
To enable this for other badges, convert them to use a `pattern`: #1961.
The frontend has a few tests in `lib/` but not all of that is covered. The components are not covered at all. It's difficult to make changes to the frontend because you have to manually test that things haven't broken.
This PR uses [Enzyme](https://airbnb.io/enzyme/) to add some [shallow-rendering tests](https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme/blob/master/docs/api/shallow.md), which are essentially unit tests of the components.
This should pave the way for functional tests of the more complex components.
- The goal of this PR is:
- Consume the new service-definition format. (#2397)
- Make the frontend more readable.
- Behavior changes:
- I changed the **Image** field in the markup modal to show only the path.
- I added another click-to-select field below that shows the complete URL.
- This made it easier to suppress the live badge preview while it contains placeholders like `:user` or `:gem`, a minor tweak discussed at https://github.com/badges/shields/issues/2427#issuecomment-442972100.
- The search box now searches all categories, regardless of the current page. (This is an improvement, I would say.)
- I did not deliberately address performance, though I ripped out a bunch of anonymous functions and avoided re-filtering all the examples by category on every render, which I expect will not hurt. I haven't really tested this on a mobile connection and it'd be worth doing that.
- It would be great to have some tests of the components, though getting started with that seemed like a big project and I did not want to make this any larger than it already is.
It's a medium-sized refactor:
1. Replace `BadgeExamples`, `Category` and `Badge` component with a completely rewritten `BadgeExamples` component which renders a table of badges, and `CategoryHeading` and `CategoryHeadings` components.
2. Refactor `ExamplesPage` and `SearchResults` components into a new `Main` component.
3. Rewrite the data flow for `MarkupModal`. Rather than rely on unmounting and remounting the component to copy the badge URL into state, employ the `getDerivedStateFromProps` lifecycle method.
4. Remove `prepareExamples` and `all-badge-examples`.
5. Rewrite the `$suggest` schema to harmonize with the service definition format. It's not backward-compatible which means at deploy time there probably will be 10–20 minutes of downtime on that feature, between the first server deploy and the final gh-pages deploy. 🤷♂️ (We could leave the old version in place if it seems worth it.)
6. Added two new functions in `make-badge-url` with tests. I removed _most_ of the uses of the old functions, but there are some in parts of the frontend I didn't touch like the static and dynamic badge generators, and again I didn't want to make this any larger than it already is.
7. Fix a couple bugs in the service-definition export.
I went down a rabbit hole while trying to untangle the bug in the dockbit and bitrise examples https://github.com/badges/shields/pull/2234#pullrequestreview-169997546.
The URL generation code is spaghetti-like, with functions, many of which I wrote, with opaque names, doing similar but not identical things, and making slightly incompatible assumptions about the way query strings are handled.
I got a bit lost and need to take a step back.
Meanwhile, this is a small piece of work I did that’s worth keeping. It doesn’t scratch the surface of the tangle, but it does remove a bit of duplication.
It also makes a minor stylistic ES6 change in the handling of default arguments.
Ref: #2027
This continues a consistency update we’ve been making to standardize on URL based on a recommendation from WHATWG: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#goals
This also helps with copying and pasting between all-badge-examples and new-style services, where it’s otherwise easy to make a mistake.
Ref: #1322#1341
* Add dynamic yaml badge
* Forgot package lock
* Switch tests to yaml data source
* Add yaml to the dynamic badge maker options
* Reorder to match documentation examples
* Reordered dynamic types to be alphabetical
* Removed regex as pinend commit makes it unnecessary and fixed url
* Removed unused import
* Add more YAML MIME types
* Removed duplicate tests which don't differ between data types
* add dynamic xml badge support
* add tests
* dynamic badge add tests for query param
* remove try catch
* use `checkErrorResponse()`
* update tests
* [dynamic json] add test for multiple items
* Rebase, [dynamic xml] Add support for multiple items
* 404 response -> resource not found
* multiple results test less greedy regex
still alot of room for improvement to this test
* update dynamic badge gen
* add dynamic xml gen tests
* update tests id & path
* datalist -> select
* uri -> url
kept support for uri, incase of any already existing badges.
* split dynamic gen uri
* update query placeholder
Add a class which applies display: none to badges we don’t want to see. This is accomplished by passing a `shouldDisplay` function along with each badge, which pulls the current query through a closure and applies it.
A bit roundabout, but it works.
The rest of the changes are refactors to avoid code duplication.
I decreased the debouce rate to 50, which seems to work well.
Fix#1314
- Fix issue in Firefox 57 when run from static build
- Fix color parameter in dynamic badge maker
- Correctly apply maxAge in usage badges
- Follow the WHATWG lead and begin to standardize on URL, not URI (https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#goals)
While working on #1288 I configured frontend tests. I'm going in a different direction with that, though it seems worth keeping the test configuration. I added tests for one of the helper methods.
- Heroku reads the Node version from package.json. We're about to upgrade to Node 8 so this change to `engines` is only pre-emptive. It won't have any effect on the production servers.
- The production deploy scripts were missing the frontend files. This fixes that.
- This modifies the build setup to allow `BASE_URL=/`, which makes all requests relative to the page itself. That simplifies deploying the "debugging" frontend to the production servers, and makes it easy to host the frontend on Heroku.
I rewrote the frontend in React using a module bundler. It's matched feature-for-feature with the current frontend, with only slight changes in the styling. I did not fuss about making the styling identical; the badge popup looks particularly different.
This makes the front end much easier to develop. I'm really looking forward to implementing #701, to which this paves the way.
This makes light use of Next.js, which provides webpack config and dev/build tooling. We’ll probably replace it with create-react-app or our own webpack setup because unfortunately it comes with a lot of runtime overhead (the build is 400k).
Let’s open new issues for bugs and features, and track other follow-ups here: https://github.com/badges/shields/projects/1
