CHAMELEON (Website Project)

The central repository for the Chameleon front_end_project (react.js) and back_end_project (node.js) .

To get started, clone the repo. Then run npm install from the root.

The repo is organized as a monorepo, . and follows this structure:

├── back_end_project           # All API to be created here (node.js)
    ├── controllers
    ├── routes
    └── services    
├── front_end_project          # Customer facing website (React.js)
    ├── public
    └── src
        ├── components
        ├── layouts
        ├── pages
        ├── services
└── old_website                # Old Chameleon website code

Both back_end_project and front_end_project are workspaces. Most actions, such as installing new npm packages, can and should be performed at the respective folder and not in the root of the project. Specific workspaces can be targeted from the root directory using cd <workspace>.

e.g. To install a new package to the front_end_project package only cd front_end_project then npm install package-name

Note: Running npm add <package> will install it to the root . T.

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💻 Development

From the root, run npm run devall to launch both node server and react app.

From the root, run npm run server to launch node server alone. This can be used by API developers to test their api , through POSTMAN.

Development should follow the Feature branch git workflow

⚠️ Important: ⚠️

Never commit directly to main

👉 Note::

When pulling the latest from github, you may need to run npm install if any packages were added or removed in past commits. If you are experiencing errors unrelated to the code you are writing (or before writing any), try running npm install.

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💯 Code Quality

📝 Linting

Code quality is enforced by ES Lint which is configured as an custom eslint plugin shared across the entire project in eslintrc.js. Each package/app requires their own .eslintrc.js file.

• Components, Component directories, Component files, and Stories all use PascalCase / UpperCamelCase
• Variables and functions use camelCase
• Single quotes for strings
• Do not use string interpolation for css classes
• Do not use CSS-in-JS, StyledComponents or Emotion CSS

⚔️ Git etiquette

Branching

Branches are used for isolated feature development and should always branch from the source they intend to merge into. This means that a branch created from main must always end up in main.

Using the example branches of main-> feature-1 -> feature-2...

• ❌ do not merge feature-1 into main before feature-2 is merged.
• ❌ do not merge feature-2 directly into main, only its parent branch.
• ✅ do branch feature-2 from main since it should not depend on feature-1

NOTE if it's entirely necessary to merge feature-1 before feature-2, ensure that no manual commits are made in feature-2 between the last commit & merge commit to main of feature-1.

Commit messages

There are no hard constraints imposed on commit messaging, instead the following guidelines show a best-practice approach to producing consumable commit messaging.

The preferred format for a commit message looks like this. Note that only body is required:

# format...
"type?(scope?): body..."

# examples...
"fixed some issue"
"fix: fixed some issue"
"fix(US-123): fixed some issue"
"fix(component): fixed some issue"

• type refers to what kind of commit is being made. Some example values are:

[
  'build', // related to build processes
  'chore', // small cleanup activities or other pedantry
  'ci', // related to continuous integration activities
  'docs', // documentation work
  'feat', // feature work
  'fix', // bugfixes or hotfixes
  'perf', // performance tuning & optimization
  'refactor', // code refactoring
  'revert', // reverting previously committed changes.
  'style', // styling changes
  'test', // changes to tests
];

• scope provides context to the commit type, most commonly a TRELLO ticket or some project name.
• body... refers to the bulk of the commit message, which can break up into header and footer sections delimited by newlines.
  • A header is the body section on the first line of the commit message
  • A footer is entered a full newline separated from the header and may contain any length of UTF-8 content.

📚 Library Docs

React Bootstrap - Docs

©️ Licenses

To see all licenses for the project run npx license-checker --summary

or see license-checker docs for more options