About

This repo is used to contain the wellcome-design-system npm package which outputs style values for import into digital products across Wellcome.

Design tokens are created in Figma via Tokens Studio and can be pushed from within the plugin to a branch where they are stored as tokens.json.

Usage

CSS

@import '@wellcometrust/wellcome-design-system/theme.css';

.my-component {
  font-size: var(--font-size-f3);
}

JS

import theme from '@wellcometrust/wellcome-design-system/theme.json';
// or
import { theme } from '@wellcometrust/wellcome-design-system/theme';

const config = {
  'font-size-massive': theme.typography.['size.f6'];
};

Release Process

1. A designer changes a design token in Figma.
2. The designer pushes the changes to the tokens.json file via the Tokens Studio plugin.
3. This creates a pull request in the Github repo.
4. The pull request is assigned to a developer for step 5.
5. The developer makes the necessary changes to the output files (theme.json, theme.css) on the same branch.
6. The developer asks for a review of the pull request from another developer.
7. Once approved, the developer merges the pull request and publishes the new version of the npm package.

Publishing to NPM

Once a pull request with the necessary changes is merged, the developer:

1. Checks out a new branch, the name isn't particularly important, something appropriate such as git checkout -b task/updates-version is fine.
2. Set the package version using the npm cli:

npm version <major|minor|patch> -m "Released version %s: <brief_description>"

3. Runs the following command to publish the new version of the package:

   npm publish --access public
   

4. Push the branch and the tags to the Github repo:

git push -u origin <branch_name> --follow-tags

5. Create a pull request against main, request a review from other developers
6. Once approved, merge the pull request into main.

You can now npm install @wellcometrust/wellcome-design-system@{version_number|latest} to use the new version in your project.

Troubleshooting

1. You must be a member of the @wellcometrust organization on npm to publish changes.
2. Here are instructions on how to publish to npm.