The content in this file links to Elastic internal resources and is mainly meant for core maintainers within Elastic. For a more general guide for developing, please consult CONTRIBUTING.md.

Running docs locally

The Search UI docs are built using an internal library (which hopefully moves into the open soon!).

An overview of the syntax used can be found here: https://github.com/elastic/docsmobile/blob/main/doc-site/docs/docs_syntax.mdx.

1. Clone https://github.com/elastic/docs.elastic.co next to search-ui repo
2. Create content-dev.js by moving into the docs.elastic.co folder and copying content.js: cp config/content.js config/content-dev.js
3. Edit your content-dev.js file so that:

   sources: [
     {
       type: 'github',
       location: 'elastic/wordlake',
     },
     {
       type: 'file',
       location: '../../search-ui'
     }
   ],
4. Run yarn, then yarn init-docs, then yarn dev.
5. After the initial setup is done, simply use yarn docs-start from the search-ui root.

Publishing

Releases should be performed directly in master (or a minor branch for patches), following the Publishing guide.

We will create branches for all minor releases.

Because all examples are declared as "private", when running lerna commands other than bootstrap, (like publish and test), the --no-private flag should be appended.

Publish a new major or minor from master

(Example, publishing 0.6.0)

1. Run npx lerna version 0.6.0 --force-publish --exact.
2. Verify the 0.6.0 tag was created as well as a "Release 0.6.0" commit.
3. Run nvm use to make sure you are running the correct version of node, and verify that npm run build runs without error before publishing.
4. Run npx lerna publish from-package.
5. Verify the 0.6.0 has been published to npm.
6. Verify that the v0.6.0 tag and commit has been pushed to master on origin.
7. Create new version branch, 0.6 from the 0.6.0 tag and push to origin.
8. Create a release in Github.
9. Close the release Milestone in Github.
10. Verify the demo on Codesandbox is functioning: https://codesandbox.io/s/github/elastic/search-ui/tree/master/examples/sandbox

Publish a patch

(Example, publish 0.6.1)

1. Create a 0.6 branch from the 0.6.0 tag, if one does not already exist.
2. Run npx lerna version 0.6.1 --force-publish --exact.
3. Verify the v0.6.1 tag was created as well as a "Release 0.6.1" commit.
4. Run nvm use to make sure you are running the correct version of node, and verify that npm run build runs without error before publishing.
5. Run npx lerna publish from-package.
6. Verify the 0.6.1 has been published to npm.
7. Verify that the 0.6.1 tag and commit has been pushed to master on origin.
8. Cherry-pick the changes forward to subsequent minor releases and master, and repeat the process.
9. Create a release in Github.
10. Close the release Milestone in Github.
11. Verify the demo on Codesandbox is functioning: https://codesandbox.io/s/github/elastic/search-ui/tree/master/examples/sandbox

Canary releases for testing

It can often be useful to publish a change and test it before doing a real live publish. For instance, it can be useful to publish something from a PR branch and test it with an actual install. Use lerna's canary option for this.

1. Check out pr branch

2. npx lerna publish --force-publish --canary --preid canary [patch|minor|major] - Publishing with canary generates a unique new version number, publishes it to npm, then updates the canary tag in npm to point to that new version.

3. In project you'll need to install all dependencies explicitly with the canary tag from npm:

   npm install --save @elastic/react-search-ui@canary @elastic/search-ui-app-search-connector@canary @elastic/react-search-ui-views@canary search-ui-views@canary

4. To check your changes, simply push them to the canary branch, then visit https://codesandbox.io/s/github/elastic/search-ui/tree/canary/examples/sandbox

Release candidates

When pushing release candidates, the following lerna commands can be useful:

# Create a pre-release version, like 1.0.0-rc.0
npx lerna version [premajor | preminor | prepatch | prerelease] --exact --force-publish --no-private  --preid rc
# Publish 1.0.0-rc.0 and update the `next` to point to this version
npx lerna publish from-package --force-publish --dist-tag next

Testing Canary build and Release Pre-releases

We have a number of demos available that you can use to do quick smoke testing of releases in various stacks:

• https://codesandbox.io/s/search-ui-gatsby-example-u041m
• https://codesandbox.io/s/search-ui-next-js-example-tb05u
• https://codesandbox.io/s/search-ui-national-parks-example-kdyms

Demo (uses code from master branch)

• https://codesandbox.io/s/github/elastic/search-ui/tree/master/examples/sandbox