Simultaneously design across a variety of themes and screen sizes, powered by JSX and your own component library.
Playroom allows you to create a zero-install code-oriented design environment, built into a standalone bundle that can be deployed alongside your existing design system documentation.
- Iterate on your designs in the final medium.
- Create quick mock-ups and interactive prototypes with real code.
- Exercise and evaluate the flexibility of your design system.
- Share your work with others by simply copying the URL.
Demos
Braid Design System (Themed)
Cubes (Themed)
Mesh Design System (Themed)
MΓstica Design System (Themed)
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Getting Started
$ npm install --save-dev playroom
Add the following scripts to your package.json
:
{
"scripts": {
"playroom:start": "playroom start",
"playroom:build": "playroom build"
}
}
Add a playroom.config.js
file to the root of your project:
module.exports = {
components: './src/components',
outputPath: './dist/playroom',
// Optional:
title: 'My Awesome Library',
themes: './src/themes',
snippets: './playroom/snippets.js',
frameComponent: './playroom/FrameComponent.js',
scope: './playroom/useScope.js',
widths: [320, 768, 1024],
port: 9000,
openBrowser: true,
paramType: 'search', // default is 'hash'
exampleCode: `
<Button>
Hello World!
</Button>
`,
baseUrl: '/playroom/',
webpackConfig: () => ({
// Custom webpack config goes here...
}),
iframeSandbox: 'allow-scripts',
};
Note: port
and openBrowser
options will be set to 9000
and true
(respectively) by default whenever they are omitted from the config above.
Your components
file is expected to export a single object or a series of named exports. For example:
export { default as Text } from '../Text'; // Re-exporting a default export
export { Button } from '../Button'; // Re-exporting a named export
// etc...
The iframeSandbox
option can be used to set the sandbox
attribute on Playroom's iframe. A minimum of allow-scripts
is required for Playroom to work.
Now that your project is configured, you can start a local development server:
$ npm run playroom:start
To build your assets for production:
$ npm run playroom:build
Snippets
Playroom allows you to quickly insert predefined snippets of code, providing live previews across themes and viewports as you navigate the list. These snippets can be configured via a snippets
file that looks like this:
export default [
{
group: 'Button',
name: 'Strong',
code: `
<Button weight="strong">
Button
</Button>
`,
},
// etc...
];
Custom Frame Component
If your components need to be nested within custom provider components, you can provide a custom React component file via the frameComponent
option, which is a path to a file that exports a component. For example, if your component library has multiple themes:
import React from 'react';
import { ThemeProvider } from '../path/to/your/theming-system';
export default function FrameComponent({ theme, children }) {
return <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>{children}</ThemeProvider>;
}
Custom Scope
You can provide extra variables within the scope of your JSX via the scope
option, which is a path to a file that exports a useScope
Hook that returns a scope object. For example, if you wanted to expose a context-based theme
variable to consumers of your Playroom:
import { useTheme } from '../path/to/your/theming-system';
export default function useScope() {
return {
theme: useTheme(),
};
Theme Support
If your component library has multiple themes, you can customise Playroom to render every theme simultaneously via the themes
configuration option.
Similar to your components
file, your themes
file is expected to export a single object or a series of named exports. For example:
export { themeA } from './themeA';
export { themeB } from './themeB';
// etc...
TypeScript Support
If a tsconfig.json
file is present in your project, static prop types are parsed using react-docgen-typescript to provide better autocompletion in the Playroom editor.
By default, all .ts
and .tsx
files in the current working directory are included, excluding node_modules
.
If you need to customise this behaviour, you can provide a typeScriptFiles
option in playroom.config.js
, which is an array of globs.
module.exports = {
// ...
typeScriptFiles: ['src/components/**/*.{ts,tsx}', '!**/node_modules'],
};
If you need to customise the parser options, you can provide a reactDocgenTypescriptConfig
option in playroom.config.js
.
For example:
module.exports = {
// ...
reactDocgenTypescriptConfig: {
propFilter: (prop, component) => {
// ...
},
},
};
Storybook Integration
If you are interested in integrating Playroom into Storybook, check out storybook-addon-playroom.
License
MIT.