CookBook, formerly known as the JCU Web Framework, can be integrated with any type of web project you're working on – particularly those that support Bootstrap.
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Fully-featured web front-end component library, styled with JCU colours and based on Bootstrap v5, including:
- Responsive grid system
- Layout and typography
- Components like buttons, cards, navigation and more
- Utilities
- ...and everything else that Bootstrap supports
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JCU logos and website artwork
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Iconography from Material Design Icons (optional)
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Font families and CSS for Open Sans and Playfair Display (optional)
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Dedicated and automated CDN hosting of all resources, including fonts and iconography
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Automated npm releases
- Bootstrap: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/
- Icon reference: https://materialdesignicons.com/
- CookBook Changelog
CookBook is, in essence, a themed version of Bootstrap and can be used as such, like so:
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Web and HTML:
- Static or dynamic web pages
- As a drop-in replacement for Bootstrap in any system or app that is built with Bootstrap's CSS classes
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React:
- As a drop-in replacement for stylesheets in
react-bootstrap - As a custom theme or as a base for creating customised Sass within Create React App (documentation)
- Used in the
cookbook-reactlibrary which contains custom components which are already themed (Coming Soon)
- As a drop-in replacement for stylesheets in
JCU CookBook resources can be included in your project from JCU's official CDN in a similar manner to that of Bootstrap's CDN. Insert the following code into your project:
<!-- In the <head> of your project -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook/3.2/css/cookbook.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook/3.2/css/fonts.min.css"><!-- Before the closing </body> tag in your project -->
<script src="https://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook/3.2/js/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook/3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>Refer to the official User documentation links above for how to build pages using Bootstap.
Images can be used from the CDN like so:
<link rel="icon" href="https://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook/3.2/img/favicon.ico" />
<img src="https://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook/3.2/img/logos/jcu-logo-horizontal.svg" alt="James Cook University (JCU) Australia logo">Available resources and their corresponding paths can be found by referrring
to the dist/ directory
within this repository. The subpath should be appended after the version
number in the URL, as per the example.
If you'd like to use the optional iconography library, you can add the following into your page or app as well:
<!-- In the <head> of your project -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook/3.2/css/materialdesignicons.min.css">You can now use icons by following the instructions at https://dev.materialdesignicons.com/getting-started/webfont (skipping the setup steps as you've already done them).
Different versions of CookBook are available on the CDN depending on your desired stability and level of control over the resources:
3– always use the latest release under this major version; or3.2– always use the latest release under this minor version; or3.2.2– A specific version number; orlatest(Not Recommended) – always use the latest release, including major versions that may have backwards incompatible changes; ormaster(Not Recommended) - the most recent commit's build on the master branch; which are useful for development
So, for example, if you wanted to always use the latest version of CookBook, and are okay with major version changes, use the following format of URL:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook/latest/css/cookbook.min.css">For other verisons, replace latest with your desired major, minor or patch
version. Note that you must keep all versions of resources in sync across all
HTML tags to ensure things function correctly.
If you are using a NodeJS-based project there is also published package on npm
under @jcu/cookbook:
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@jcu/cookbook: this tag will install the latest version and needs to be explicitly upgraded to future versions @jcu/cookbook@latest: this tag is equivalent to thelatestversion on the CDN@jcu/cookbook@dev: this tag is the equivalent to themasterversion on the CDN
To upgrade your project to use a more recent version of CookBook, simply change its version in your HTML. If you are moving to a new major version, you should refer to the CookBook Changelog for details of changes. For minor or patch releases, you should do the same but given our use of SemVer, changes will be feature releases or bug fixes.
Builds utilise the same style of package scripts defined in package.json
that Bootstrap does, with some additional steps and changes for the inclusions
in this package. At a high level, however, the process looks like so:
- CSS: test, compile and minify CSS and font dependencies
- JS: collate all dependencies
- Images: minify and collate all images
- Documentation: assemble and build
The resulting distribution is then published to the CDN and documentation published accordingly online (coming shortly).
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Install this package and its dependencies with:
yarn
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Execute a build with:
yarn dist
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Test the resulting build.
At present, this involves manual testing with the HTML documentation and checking against in-development applications.
To obtain public URLs to test with, create a release to the test CDN environment:
yarn dist yarn release-cdn-test
To automatically create an in-development package that's available on npm, include the magic string
[npm publish]within your commit message. Note that this doesn't affect the publishing of packages for tags; these occur automatically on creating and pushing a tagged release.
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Ensure the Github Repository has the following environment secrets:
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CDN_URL: base URL used for retrieving published version details (such ashttps://cdn.jcu.edu.au/cookbook) -
NPM_TOKEN: Automation token for publishing npm packages automatically (see npm's documentation on Creating and viewing access tokens) -
S3-compatible storage access credentials used by
s3-sync-action:AWS_S3_BUCKET: name of the bucket to sync toAWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS Access KeyAWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: AWS Secret Access Key
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Given the types of changes that have occurred since the last release, decide on the new version based upon SemVer rules.
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With the new version number known, update the following:
CHANGELOG.md: current release version, date and tag URLREADME.md: CDN URLssrc/scss/cookbook.scss: version messagesite/docs/index.js: version variable
For major or minor version releases, also change the following:
package.json: version numberssite/docs/index.html: version navbar entries, header, URLs & footer
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Commit and create a release tag (e.g.
v99.0.1)git commit -m "chore: release v99.0.1" git tag v99.0.1 -
Update the working version number in the source code:
yarn release-version [current-version eg 99.0.1] [development-version eg 99.0.2]
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Check and commit the changes that were made. Care will need to be taken in the case where CookBook's version change conflicts with another, hence a patch commit is suggested:
git add -p . git commit -m "chore: back to development"
Additionally, if releasing a new major or minor version,
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Push the results:
git push git push --tags
This will automatically execute the release workflow which will upload the generated distribution to the CDN and release a corresponding package to npm, checking the success of these outputs in the process.
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Firstly, follow the instructions above for Building this project.
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Set up an Rclone environment with
rclone configand create a remote calledjcu-cdn-cookbook. Ask a maintainer if you're unsure what the configuration should contain. -
Build a release and copy the distribution to CDN via:
yarn release
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Update
CHANGELOG.mdand CDN URLs insideREADME.mdwith the current date and released version -
Commit the build to Git and tag accordingly:
git commit CHANGELOG.md README.md dist/ -m "Release v9.9.9" git tag v9.9.9 -
Publish to npm via the following:
yarn publish
Don't set a
New versionat this time; just hit enter/return. We'll update it ourselves in a moment. -
Update the working version number in the source code:
yarn release-version [old-version eg 2.0.0] [new-version eg 2.0.1] git commit -a -m "Back to development"When using
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Push the results:
git push git push --tags
Upgrading dependencies – including Bootstrap – takes place via:
yarn upgrade-interactivewhere you can inspect the recent changes and assess the impact of the dependency changes on the project. In general, minor or patch version changes should be fine to apply, provided everyone is following SemVer.
When it comes to Bootstrap itself, pay close attention to the release notes and the official blog for details of changes. As with other dependencies, the same SemVer rules apply but carefully check the resulting theme when built as regressions are always possible.
Once you've upgraded, inspect the documentation site to ensure styles and functionality is working as expected. We'll have more automated processes for this in the near future.
Documentation provided in this project primarily comes from the upstream Bootstrap project. In terms of updating the docs, it is a case of pulling down a new or updated version and manually editing the HTML. The following commands can assist with automating some of this progress:
# Homepage
mv site/docs/index.html site/docs/index.prev.html
wget https://getbootstrap.com/ -O site/docs/index.html
# Cheatsheet
mv site/docs/cheatsheet.html site/docs/cheatsheet.prev.html
wget https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/examples/cheatsheet/ -O site/docs/cheatsheet.html
wget https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/examples/cheatsheet/cheatsheet.css -O site/docs/cheatsheet.css
wget https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/examples/cheatsheet/cheatsheet.js -O site/docs/cheatsheet.js
# Point Cheatsheet links at official docs
sed -i 's#\(/docs/5.1/\)#https://getbootstrap.com\1#g' site/docs/cheatsheet.html
# Improve layout of Cheatsheet headers
sed -i 's/pt-3 pt-xl-5 pb-2 pb-xl-3/pt-1 pt-xl-2 pb-1 pb-xl-2/g' site/docs/cheatsheet.htmlFrom here, it's a case of manually ascertaining what to remove (certain meta tags, GTM JavaScript, ads, specific images and so on), what to reword or restyle (much of it on the homepage, the CSS on the cheatsheet) and what to add in (JCU header and footer).
JCU CookBook aims to allow websites and applications that that use it to be compliant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. As a component library, it is possible for system implementers and developers to mix and match components, add styles and integrate with applications in ways that may not meet WCAG requirements. One such example is using light text or button classes on top of a light background; the helper classes exist, but to enable a developer to create an accessible environment. In short, we strive to provide the toolkit that web systems can use to be fully accessible, but it is the responsibility of each application to test themselves.
Contributions are always welcome to improve accessibilty within this project and the core components it provides.
- Favicons: https://github.com/audreyr/favicon-cheat-sheet
- Code Guide: https://codeguide.co
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JCU Brand DNA v2.7 (retrieved 2020-07-31), adapted like so:
- Certain colours were adjusted or selected for accessibility in terms of colour contrast
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JCU website (accessed 2020-07-31)
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Institutional logos (retrieved in
.ziparchive form, converted into web-compatible SVG format and colours set to match the JCU website logo)- 50th Anniversary logos had duplicate
0(zero) andYEARSshapes removed from vectorised files (except small vertical/shield variants)
- 50th Anniversary logos had duplicate
See https://www.pmc.gov.au/government/australian-national-symbols/australian-flags for details. Reproduction of the following resources is underst
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Australian Aboriginal Flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Australian_Aboriginal_Flag.svg (Public domain in USA; educational use in Australia)
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Torres Straight Islanders Flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Torres_Strait_Islanders.svg (Non-free media; education use in Australia)
- Based upon the Bootstrap documentation at https://getbootstrap.com
- Material Design Icons and integration based upon https://materialdesignicons.com/bootstrap
Use of JCU CookBook and its resources are limited to James Cook University projects and where appropriate permission is sought to use the branding. Specific aspects of the JCU CookBook, such as logos and artwork, may be subject to their own approvals, copyright or licensing and users are advised to seek their own independent advice regarding their usage from the appropriate University departments.