woocommerce/plugins/woocommerce-admin/packages/README.md

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WooCommerce Packages

Currently we have a small set of public-facing packages that can be dowloaded from npm and used in external applications.

  • @woocommerce/components: A library of components that can be used to create pages in the WooCommerce dashboard and reports pages.
  • @woocommerce/csv-export: A set of functions to convert data into CSV values, and enable a browser download of the CSV data.
  • @woocommerce/currency: A collection of utilities to display and work with currency values.
  • @woocommerce/date: A collection of utilities to display and work with date values.
  • @woocommerce/navigation: A collection of navigation-related functions for handling query parameter objects, serializing query parameters, updating query parameters, and triggering path changes.

Working with existing packages

  • You can make changes to packages files as normal, and running npm start will compile and watch both app files and packages.
  • ⚠️ Make sure any dependencies you add to a package are also added to that package's package.json, not just the woocommerce-admin package.json
  • ⚠️ Make sure you're not importing from any woocommerce-admin files outside of the package (you can import from other packages, just use the import from @woocommerce/package syntax).
  • Add your change to the CHANGELOG for that package under the next version number, creating one if necessary (we use semantic versioning for packages, see these guidelines).
  • Don't change the version in package.json.
  • Label your PR with the Packages label.
  • Once merged, you can wait for the next package release roundup, or you can publish a release now (see below, "Publishing packages").

Creating a new package

Most of this is pulled from the Gutenberg workflow.

To create a new package, add a new folder to /packages, containing…

  1. package.json based on the template:
    {
    	"name": "@woocommerce/package-name",
    	"version": "1.0.0-beta.0",
    	"description": "Package description.",
    	"author": "Automattic",
    	"license": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
    	"keywords": [
    		"wordpress",
    		"woocommerce"
    	],
    	"homepage": "https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/tree/master/packages/[_YOUR_PACKAGE_]/README.md",
    	"repository": {
    		"type": "git",
    		"url": "https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin.git"
    	},
    	"bugs": {
    		"url": "https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/issues"
    	},
    	"main": "build/index.js",
    	"module": "build-module/index.js",
    	"react-native": "src/index",
    	"dependencies": {
    		"@babel/runtime-corejs2": "7.1.5"
    	},
    	"publishConfig": {
    		"access": "public"
    	}
    }
    
  2. .npmrc file which disables creating package-lock.json file for the package:
    package-lock=false
    
  3. README.md file containing at least:
    • Package name
    • Package description
    • Installation details
    • Usage example
  4. A src directory for the source of your module, which will be built by default using the npm run build:packages command. Note that you'll want an index.js file that exports the package contents, see other packages for examples.

Publishing packages

  • Run npm run publish-packages:check to see which packages will be published
  • Create a PR with a CHANGELOG for each updated package (or try to add to the CHANGELOG with any PR editing packages/)
  • Run npm run publish-packages:prod to publish the package
  • OR Run npm run publish-packages:dev to publish "next" releases (installed as npm i @woocommerce/package@next). Currently packages are published this way, but we should be using prod in the future. Only use :dev if you have a reason to.
  • Both commands will run build:packages before the lerna task, just to catch any last updates.

It will confirm with you once more before publishing:

Changes:
 - @woocommerce/components: 1.0.1 => 1.1.0
 - @woocommerce/date: 1.0.1 => 1.0.2
 - @woocommerce/navigation: 1.0.0 => 1.1.0

? Are you sure you want to publish these packages?

If you accept, Lerna will create git tags, publish those to github, then push your packages to npm.

🎉 You have a published package!