Material Web Components
:warning: These components are still a work in progress. :warning:
Material Web Components helps developers execute Material Design using web components.
Built on top of the Material Components Web project and LitElement, the Material Web Components enable a reliable development workflow to build beautiful and functional web projects.
Web Components can be seamlessly incorporated into a wide range of usage contexts. Whether you're already heavily invested in another framework or not, it's easy to incorporate Material Web Components into your site in a lightweight, idiomatic fashion.
Authentic release
instructions
Merge with
develop
branchgit merge origin develop
Fix all merge conflicts.
Don't worry about renaming
@material
to@authentic
at this point.Rename packages names from
@material
to@authentic
npm run rescope:authentic
Remove
node_modules
folder andpackage-lock.json
filerm -Rf node_modules && rm package-lock.json
Install dependencies and create the
@authentic
foldernpm i && mkdir node_modules/@authentic
TODO: automate this step
Bootstrap the project
npm run bootstrap
Test the project
npm run dev
Test the new functionality.
:warning: If something is broken at this point: roll back your changes, fix the issue on
develop
branch and start again from step 1. :warning:PUSH
your changesIf you have new changes at this point, add them to the stash and combine them with the previous commit.
git commit -a --amend
A new screen will appear with the previous commit description, you just need to
save an quit
by typing:wq
and then clickingENTER
.Then:
git push origin publish
Use lerna to help you with the release
lerna publish
Follow lerna instructions in order to move forward with the release
Every new release will follow the
PATCH release
approach based onmaster
's version currently at0.5.0
, so from now on it will continue with 0.5.X
.Lerna will automatically change all packages versions and push a new
commit
&tag
labeled asv0.5.X
, right after that it will update the git head of them.Since at this point lerna has updated all of our package.json again, we will need to
COMMIT
andPUSH
our changes.git commit -am 'git head updated' && git push origin publish
Quick start
Note: This guide assumes you have npm installed locally.
The easiest way to try out the Material Web Components is to use one of these online tools:
Runs in all supported browsers: Glitch
Runs in browsers with JavaScript Modules: JSBin, CodePen.
Or you can also copy this HTML file into a local file and run it in any browser that supports JavaScript Modules.
When you're ready to use the Material Web Components in your web application:
Ensure the webcomponents polyfills are included in your HTML page
Install webcomponents polyfills
npm i @webcomponents/webcomponentsjs
Add webcomponents polyfills to your HTML page
<script src="@webcomponents/webcomponentsjs/webcomponents-loader.js"></script>
Add one of the MWC elements to your project, for example for icon:
npm i @material/mwc-icon
Import the element definition into your HTML page:
<script type="module" src="@material/mwc-icon/index.js"></script>
Or into your module script:
import {Icon} from "@material/mwc-icon"
Create an instance of element in your HTML page, or via any framework that supports rendering Custom Elements:
<mwc-icon>sentiment_very_satisfied</mwc-icon>
Install the Polymer CLI:
npm i -g polymer-cli
Run the development server and open a browser pointing to its URL:
polymer serve
The Material Web Components are published on npm using JavaScript Modules. This means it can take advantage of the standard native JavaScript module loader available in all current major browsers.
However, since the Material Web Components use npm convention to reference dependencies by name, a light transform to rewrite specifiers to URLs is required to get it to run in the browser. The polymer-cli's development server
polymer serve
automatically handles this transform.
Tools like WebPack and Rollup can also be used to serve and/or bundle.
Contributing guide
Below are instructions for setting up project development.
- Clone this repo with
git clone
. - Install dependencies by running
npm run bootstrap
- Run a development server with
npm run dev
- View the demos by accessing
<dev server url>
/demos/index.html - This will also build the project.
- View the demos by accessing
- Build the project with
npm run build
- Run tests with
npm run test
Developing Components
Components are written in Typescript, and compiled to Javascript Modules.
The output Javascript Modules can be used in every modern browser directly, and are supported a wide variety of popular bundler and build tools.
The components render output structure, handle styling, and manage data flow with lit-html
while integrating with Material Design's common logic library for each component.
Styling Components
Components define their styling using SASS.
The SASS output is built into a javascript module which exports the component's styling as a lit-html template.
Component styling is compiled with both npm run build
and npm run watch
.
To compile the component SASS manually, use npm run build-styling
Useful Links
- All Components
- Demos
- Contributing
- Material.io (external site)
- Material Design Guidelines (external site)
Browser Support
We officially support the last two versions of every major browser. Specifically, we test on the following browsers:
- Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox
- IE 11/Edge
- Opera
- Mobile Safari
- Chrome on Android