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[docs] AppBar and Textfield demos in TypeScript #13229

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@eps1lon eps1lon commented Oct 13, 2018

It's very unpolished at the time but I wanted to get some feedback before deep diving.
Feature is only available in the app bar demos and text field demos

Motivation

Implementation

This is an early draft. There are some issues that are not adressed yet

Why babel?

The only runtime difference right now is the usage of createStyles which is just the identity function but it's noise for js users. It would be nice to strip this from production code. Typescript tansformer API is either not documented well or the ts team has no goal in unifying this API (see microsoft/TypeScript#14419) hence we use a babel plugin.

I didn't look into that but it might be a good idea anyway to have a webpack/babel plugin that removes this function. I don't know if babel can strip identity functions or if something like prepack is required for that.

babel-plugin vs. ts-transformer

  • babel-plugin allows usage in configs, ts-transformers are only available for programmatic compilation
  • babel is pretty good with whitespace preservation, ts is not (Emit does not preserve empty lines microsoft/TypeScript#843)
  • depending on project setup only one is applicable (users with ts only might want a transformer which integrates well with at-loader and ts-loader, babel plugin integrates well if users compile with babel-preset-ts)

Issues

  • code is unformatted. we need to pipe the output to prettier resolved thanks to babel-plugin-generator-prettier Using retainLines in generatorOpts in babel with some manual regex fixing helps fix most of the problems.
  • [ ] propTypes need a any cast edit: will leave it at that; they are way to strictly typed atm
  • [ ] demos need to be written in js for dev hot reloading yarn docs:typescript --watch in parallel to yarn docs:dev
  • do we check in CI if the files are synced (not done for propTypes and ts declarations) edit: add outdatedTS to mark some demos as not-synced. Can later decide if this means that deploy is blocked, hide the switch or just display the warning (current impl) We have docs/ignore-ts-demo.json to suppress CI failures.
  • [ ] write demos only in ts and transpile it when building the docs bundle? (might loose contributors) Maintenance overhead is fine for hooks which requires actual implementation port. Porting from js to ts is for most PRs just c&p.

/cc @mui-org/core-contributors and especially @pelotom as the go2 ts member

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oliviertassinari commented Oct 13, 2018

@eps1lon It's an interesting initiative!
I believe you have already thought of the main cons. How can we afford the operational overhead of maintaining two versions of each demo? Maybe we could convert few, add one GA tracking event and see if they are used?

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frequent support requests how to use demos in typescript

"citation needed" (sorry, couldn't resit 😉), but really?

typescript documentation is just one guide that can be missed easily

Thank goodness for search! 😄

And +183 lines for what is, in essence, a 3 line diff?

Honestly, if a user can't type the demos after reading the docs, they're never going to be able to type their own code. (I say this as someone whose ts is even worse than their js, so not a criticism, just a blunt fact).

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eps1lon commented Oct 13, 2018

frequent support requests how to use demos in typescript

"citation needed" (sorry, couldn't resit ), but really?

Always valid. I wanted to push this quick and was a bit lazy. Those are examples that would be addressed by this: #12486, #12946, #12709, #13004, #13218, #13372, #13396 and some gitter conversations.
These are of course not literal but they all address usage questions.

And +183 lines for what is, in essence, a 3 line diff?

Are you referring to the changed demo? I thought I addressed those concerns with the Proof of Concept tag and repeating that this is unpolished at the moment. The end goal is to have no diff at all.

Honestly, if a user can't type the demos after reading the docs, they're never going to be able to type their own code. (I say this as someone whose ts is even worse than their js, so not a criticism, just a blunt fact).

Let me rephrase my motivation (also in response to @oliviertassinari ). I think our typescript declarations are not tested well. I wanted to put some work into writing new tests but like with every test I feared that this might result in suites that don't really stress test or don't reflect real world use cases.

I believe that the demos are the strongest part of this documentation and they are already used for regression tests so why not also use them to test our declarations. But why just hide those in test files when we can also put them into the docs and showcase how good or bad this library works with typescript. In essence our tests are literally part of the documentation.

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One thing I like about this implementation is that we can gradually port the demos to typescript. I would say maybe our 3 most popular demos and then see how often people look at the typescript version. Maybe also research how often mui is used with typescript. If people are not interested I can still move them into the typescript test folders and use them as tests without enhancing our docs.

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oliviertassinari commented Oct 14, 2018

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One thing I like about this implementation is that we can gradually port the demos to typescript. I would say maybe our 3 most popular demos and then see how often people look at the typescript version. Maybe also research how often mui is used with typescript. If people are not interested I can still move them into the typescript test folders and use them as tests without enhancing our docs.

I'm all in for the scientific approach 🔬. It starts with an intuition, it leads to a quick experimentation and finishes with an analysis of the results. repeat ♻️ .

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pelotom commented Oct 15, 2018

Directionally I think this is a great idea, as would be porting the unit tests over to TypeScript (@rosskevin took a stab at this a year or so ago but we never got it over the finish line). The more validation code we can write in TypeScript, the more we can simultaneously validate the implementation as well as the fact that the types correspond to that implementation.

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eps1lon commented Oct 16, 2018

The current implementation generates for the very simple (concerning types) demo BottomAppBar the same JS from TS. I updated the notes about the babel plugin.

https://deploy-preview-13229--material-ui.netlify.com/demos/app-bar/#bottom-app-bar is a preview of the JS/TS switch. Currently there is a global one in the docs app bar.

The global switch looks out of place and in the current form might not be useful since we won't have much examples in TS to begin with. It's just a first draft and I'm pretty certain it's not gonna make it.

The switch per demo looks good though in my opinion and just need some UX improvements since tooltips won't work with disabled elements. State of the logo vs. code might be confusing. I want to signal that clicking it will toggle between JS and TS but then the JS logo is display when TS code is shown. Probably some toggle button group with colorized logo if activated is better.

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eps1lon commented Oct 23, 2018

This is now implementation wise complete. I updated the initial post.

It's only enabled for the app bar right now. I would like to port another component demo. @oliviertassinari Could you tell me the most or 2nd most popular demo?

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TextField 🥇, Button 🥈, AppBar 🥉.

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@eps1lon Should I review this pull request ?

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eps1lon commented Oct 30, 2018

@oliviertassinari That would be nice.

There are still some issues with codesandbox but I think switching to create-react-app@2.1 instead of react-scripts-ts might resolve those.

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Followup on mui#13428 with courtesy of mui#13229
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@mbrookes What's the state of the toggle button integration?

Ah, sorry about that, didn't mean to derail this PR being merged.

The toggle button integration is done, but I ran into a roadblock on the MDv2 re-style. Let me know when you're done iterating, and I'll push it in its current form.

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eps1lon commented Jan 29, 2019

@mbrookes You can go ahead and push your changes.

@eps1lon eps1lon changed the title [docs] Demos in TypeScript [docs] AppBar and Textfield demos in TypeScript Jan 31, 2019
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eps1lon commented Jan 31, 2019

@mbrookes Thanks for helping with the language switch UI.

PR looks fine to me now. Maybe we can improve the whitespace issue later on but I'd rather not discuss formatting anymore in the day and age of prettier.

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Do we need a fragment?

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That's just an artifact from the previous iteration that returned multiple buttons.

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The bad flow times are back, adding code that does nothing just to make the type checker happy.

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Knowing something does nothing, got it.

const reqSource = require.context(
'!raw-loader!../../docs/src/pages/demos/app-bar',
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Will we be able to run the TypeScript version at some point? Looking at the imports, it seems we are only using the .tsx file for displaying the source of the demo.

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Maybe. Not sure if we can just use the typescript preset for js files.

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oliviertassinari commented Jan 31, 2019

@eps1lon Boom! 🦄🔥 with #14356 we gonna know exactly the market share of these TypeScript demos :).

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mbrookes commented Feb 1, 2019

Maybe we can improve the whitespace issue later on but I'd rather not discuss formatting anymore in the day and age of prettier.

I was talking about whitespace in the design sense. e.g. marginBottom added the v2 spec toggle buttons to separate them from the code container. The drop-shadow sort of does that for the v1 spec toggle buttons.

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eps1lon commented Feb 1, 2019

Maybe we can improve the whitespace issue later on but I'd rather not discuss formatting anymore in the day and age of prettier.

I was talking about whitespace in the design sense. e.g. marginBottom added the v2 spec toggle buttons to separate them from the code container. The drop-shadow sort of does that for the v1 spec toggle buttons.

This was targeted at https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui/pull/13229/files#r248695540

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