showcar-ui

showcar-ui is the pattern library that is used to build the frontend of AutoScout24. It provides CSS classes, custom elements and components.

Installation:

To install showcar-ui within your project use npm.

npm install showcar-ui --save

How to build:

We are using node 10.16.0 version for build. Make sure you have it installed. If you are using nvm simply run

nvm use

and follow the instructions

For building on your local machine install all npm packages first.

yarn
yarn run build

How to run locally:

You can use the gulp default command to run the build locally:

gulp

and open http://localhost:5000 in your browser to see the showcar docs locally.

How to run tests locally:

You can run tests locally in Chrome:

gulp test:fast

How to publish an npm package

From master branch

yarn build

If you see after unning build some files in dist please commit it

npm version patch|minor|major
npm publish
git push --follow-tags

Interacting w/ local changes

You can preview/interact with the local changes by running yarn run docs:serve. This will generate the docs & launch a server where you can look at them, running the local version of showcar-ui

How to include:

You can either include showcar-ui as a fragment or directly include the JS, CSS and inline HTML on your page. The library provides some HTML content that needs to be inlined on your page. Use the index.html in the dist folder as a template in order to include the inline HTML, CSS and JS on your page.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="@@ASSET_PATH/showcar-ui.css">
<script src="@@ASSET_PATH/showcar-ui.js"></script>

Make sure to replace the @@ASSET_PATH string with the path to the JS/CSS file.

How to test:

You can check development state of the library on home, list and detail page with a parameter ?toguru=sc_develop%3dtrue.

You can also check your branch on home, list and detail using sc_branch=Your-Branch-Name-Here as request parameter. Example: https://www.autoscout24.de/auto-verkaufen/?sc_branch=UGACT-24-Support-ES6

How to test fragments with toggles

You can check any branch of the library on your page with parameter ?toguru=sc_develop%3dtest-branch where test-branch is the name of the desired branch.

Locally run

docker-compose up

and check localhost:8080/test/showcar-ui-toggled-fragment.html?toguru=sc_develop%3dtest-branch where test-branch is the name of the branch to test

Build Pipeline

Source: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_l8FFfQY=/

Additional information

The showcar-ui library includes some libraries and polyfills:

Libraries

• showcar-storage (https://github.com/AutoScout24/showcar-storage)
• showcar-icons (also available as standalone fragment) (https://github.com/AutoScout24/showcar-icons)
• showcar-tracking (also available as standalone fragment) (https://github.com/AutoScout24/showcar-tracking)
• Zepto (zepto-modules v1.0.1 uses Zepto v1.2.0) (https://www.npmjs.com/package/zepto-modules) (http://zeptojs.com/)
• lazysizes (https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes)

Polyfills

• document-register-element (from document-register-element)
• dom4 (from dom4)
• Array (.of, .includes, .from, .find)
• String (.includes, .startsWith, .endsWith)
• Object (.assign)
• Promises (from promiz)
• Fetch (from whatwg-fetch)
• URLSearchParams (from url-search-params-polyfill)

showcar-storage

You can access the Stroage API via the global Storage object. For further information see the documentation under https://github.com/AutoScout24/showcar-storage

showcar-icons

You can use all the icons defined by showcar-icons with the custom <as24-icon> tag. For further information see the documentation under https://github.com/AutoScout24/showcar-icons

Zepto

Showcar-ui includes Zepto, which is a lightweight replacement for jQuery. You can access Zepto via the global variables $ and Zepto. For a detailed usage guide, have a look at http://zeptojs.com/

How to use:

for the use of the library have a look at the documentation.

How to contribute:

See CONTRIBUTING.md

License

See LICENSE.md

Z-indexes table

Published 13.03.2017

ShowcarUI				notes
lightbox	overlay	140	useful
	modal window	139	useful
spy-navigation	wrapper	2/21(if sticky)	useful
tooltip		2	useful
input group	focus	2	useful
ad		110	useful
custom dropdown		1	useful
sticky		2	useful	Could have bigger z-index but lower than overlay
navigation	::before li	100	useful	Can be 10
notification		120	useful
Contentservice
header		130	useful
notification		9999	remove!

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