Ant Design

How to implement ANT Design with React

Following the Ant Design specification, we developed a React UI library antd that contains a set of high quality components and demos for building rich, interactive user interfaces.

✨ Features

🌈 Enterprise-class UI designed for web applications.

📦 A set of high-quality React components out of the box.

🛡 Written in TypeScript with predictable static types.

⚙️ Whole package of design resources and development tools.

🌍 Internationalization support for dozens of languages.

🎨 Powerful theme customization in every detail.

_Source: _Ant Designarrow-up-right

I have found ANT Design as the smart option to design our web applications using react. It provides us high quality components which we will be observing while developing the project, in the article later on. If you look around to the documentation provided by ANT and observe its demo of different features, you will find ANT as the better option for you application. So we will be developing a simple react application using following ANT Components. So, let’s start!

ANT Components

There are a lot of beautiful and useful components provided by ANT Design. But I will brief you about some of the basic components that we will be using to built a system with React and ANT in this article.

1. Layout Layout is basically a wrapper, which consist of Header, Footer, Sider, Content and layout itself. You can modify plenty of things for your layout. Please refer to layout documentationarrow-up-right of ANT for more.Layout given by ANT

2. Grid ANT Design is a 24 Grid System.The column Grid system in ANT Design is a value of 1–24 to represent its range spans. You can use Row for rows and Col for columns and you can have 24 columns in a row. You can define a col span lik <Col span={8}> for columns of three equal widths. Learn more herearrow-up-right.Grid system of ANT

3. Form ANT provides high performance Form Component with data scope management which includes data collection, verification and styles. Learn more about forms herearrow-up-right.

4. Input It is a basic widget for getting the user input as a text field. You can use input group, text area, format tooltip input and many more from input. Learn more herearrow-up-right.

5. Radio Radio is used to select a single state from multiple options. You can check out different use cases of Radio in Ant from herearrow-up-right.

6. Switch If you need to have switching between two states that is on-off state you can use Switch. I was really impressed with the pending state implemented in switch by ANT. For knowing more about it, please refer the document herearrow-up-right.

7. Slider Slider component is used for displaying current value or the range of the value. ANT provides the better component for using Slider. Learn more herearrow-up-right.

8. Select Select component allows us to select a value or set of values from the options available to us. There are many use cases of the select component defined by ANT. Learn more herearrow-up-right.

9. Message We use message as the feedback in response to the operations performed by the user. We use message component for displaying feedback such as success, error, warning, etc. Message is displayed at top-center and will be dismissed automatically. Learn more herearrow-up-right.

10. Table ****We can use Table to display a collection of structured data in rows. We can define dataSource and columns to display rows data and columns of the table. Learn more herearrow-up-right.

11. Empty You can use this component when there is nothing to display in your page or your component. I gives good User Experience as well. Learn more about Empty herearrow-up-right.ANT Empty Component

Create React App

We somewhat touched the basic components we will be using now. So, now let’s create a new react project named **react-ant **with typescript.

Install React Router

We will be using React Router to navigate to different pages of the application. Let’s install them as well.

Install ANT Design

So, finally we install ANT Design to our system with following command.

Also import antd css to the index file, index.tsx.

Create Fake Json Server

We will be using the Fake Json Server for storing and retrieving our data locally. I am using it because our application is small and we will be storing and retrieving the data later on. Install Json Server with following command.

Create a folder named _Server _and create a file named _db.json _to record our data. We create a users collection in db.json which will be holding our users data later on.

Next thing you need to do is to create json-server.json file to the root of the project and it will hold port for our server.

For running the json server you run following command on your terminal. Keep your server running.

Install Axios

Axios is the promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js. We will be using Axios as well in the application. So, lets’s install it.

Create Layout

Now we start structuring our application with files and folder. First of all we will create two folders inside src and give them the name components and config respectively. We will add route configuration and layout in config folder and different pages and layouts in components folder. For your easiness, I am going to provide the screen shot of files and folder that we are going to create.Project Structure of REACT-ANT

Also delete the unnecessary files and logos that we will not be using from the project. So, now we will start our code with** App.tsx**.

Now we define our route for different pages and we define our layout on the ApplicationRoutes.tsx file. I have added all the routes, but you can add those routes after adding those components for not getting error. I have also added the header component and content here and grabbed the sider component form layout. You can separate them as well, if you want cleaner code.

We have imported SideNav from sidebar.tsx, so we add that immediately. For that create a file named sidebar.tsx inside layouts folder in components directory. We define menu and menu items for the sidebar and we use the awesome icons provided by Ant.

Now the missing part is our list page and the form, so we work to complete them.

Create List

We are using table to display list of user data entered by the user. We define columns and data for the table. Moreover, we add a button to navigate to the Form to fill it up and add in the table. We grab the data from our json server using axios. So let’s see how our table is going to look like.

Create Form

We are going to implement a lot of above mentioned components to design our form and obviously, we will be using json server to store the user data. We have applied basic validation for our form as well. Moreover, you can look at the code and get known to various components and their interaction in the system. So let’s create our form.

For using the _Empty component, _we will be adding two more pages _files.tsx _and videos.tsx with no data. You can implement Empty component as given below.

Also the files page looks like.

Demo

For checking our system to perform as expected, please make sure that our Front end and Server is running properly. Run react project with following command if you haven’t done yet.

Also make sure our json server is working perfectly.

Boom! You will get the empty user list with a beautiful layout and bunch of menus on the sidebar. It looks cool!Empty Table

Navigate to Add user and you will get this user form. It looks more cool!User Form

Now fill up all the fields and click save or click back to navigate to the list page. You will see the loading on save button until the form gets submitted. Lets see how it looks like.New user added with a success message

This is how you can add new users and let’s see our empty components by navigating to videos from left menu.Video page with no data

We implemented some of the basic components of Ant Design with React. There are a lot more components and designs provided by Ant. It is so easy to use and much efficient for the user experience. You can add more attributes to the application we developed just now, using other Ant Components. You can refer to my github link of the project for any confusions or you can write it down on the comments below as well. I will be covering more parts of ANT Design in upcoming articles too. Stay Tuned!

Github: https://github.com/SudeepTimalsina/ReactAntarrow-up-right

Ant Design of React

Following the Ant Design specification, we developed a React UI library antd that contains a set of high quality components and demos for building rich, interactive user interfaces.+

✨ Features#arrow-up-right

  • 🌈 Enterprise-class UI designed for web applications.

  • 📦 A set of high-quality React components out of the box.

  • 🛡 Written in TypeScript with predictable static types.

  • ⚙️ Whole package of design resources and development tools.

  • 🌍 Internationalization support for dozens of languages.

  • 🎨 Powerful theme customization in every detail.

Environment Support#arrow-up-right

IE11, Edge

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Polyfills are needed for IE browsers. We recommend @babel/preset-envarrow-up-right for it. You can set targets config if you are using umiarrow-up-right.

We drop support of IE8 after antd@2.0, We drop support of React 15 and IE9/10 after antd@4.0,

You can subscribe to this feed for new version notifications: https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/releases.atomarrow-up-right

Installation#arrow-up-right

Using npm or yarn#arrow-up-right

We recommend using npm or yarn to install, it not only makes development easier, but also allow you to take advantage of the rich ecosystem of Javascript packages and tooling.

If you are in a bad network environment, you can try other registries and tools like cnpmarrow-up-right.

Import in Browser#arrow-up-right

Add script and link tags in your browser and use the global variable antd.

We provide antd.js antd.css and antd.min.js antd.min.css under antd/dist in antd's npm package. You can also download these files directly from CDNJSarrow-up-right, arrow-up-right or unpkgarrow-up-right.

We strongly discourage loading the entire files this will add bloat to your application and make it more difficult to receive bugfixes and updates. Antd is intended to be used in conjunction with a build tool, such as webpackarrow-up-right, which will make it easy to import only the parts of antd that you are using.

Note: you should import react/react-dom/moment before using antd.js.

And import stylesheets manually:

Use modularized antd#arrow-up-right

antd supports ES modules tree shaking by default for JS part.

TypeScript#arrow-up-right

antd provides a built-in ts definition, don't install @types/antd.

Getting Started

Ant Design React is dedicated to providing a good development experience for programmers. Before starting, it is recommended to learn Reactarrow-up-right and ES2015arrow-up-right first, and correctly install and configure Node.jsarrow-up-right v8 or above.

The official guide also assumes that you have intermediate knowledge about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and React. If you are just starting to learn front-end or React, it may not be the best idea to use the UI framework as your first step.

Finally, if you are working in a local development environment, please refer to Install and Initializationarrow-up-right section of "Use in create-react-app".

Your First Example#arrow-up-right

Here is a simple online codesandbox demo of an Ant Design component to show the usage of Ant Design React.

Follow the steps below to play around with Ant Design yourself:

1. Create a codesandbox#arrow-up-right

Visit http://u.ant.design/codesandbox-reproarrow-up-right to create a codesandbox -- don't forget to press the save button as well to create a new instance.

2. Use and modify an antd component#arrow-up-right

Replace the contents of index.js with the following code. As you can see, there is no difference between antd's components and typical React components.

If you have already set things up by following the Install and Initializationarrow-up-right section of "Use in create-react-app", replace the content of /src/index.js as follows:

3. Explore more components#arrow-up-right

You can view the list of components in the side menu of the Components page, such as the Alertarrow-up-right component. Plenty of examples are also provided in the component pages and API documentation as well.

Click the "Open in Editor" icon in the first example to open an editor with source code to use out-of-the-box. Now you can import the Alert component into the codesandbox:

Now add the following jsx inside the render function.

Select a date, and you can see the effect in the preview area on the right:

codesandbox screenshot

OK! Now that you know the basics of using antd components, you are welcome to explore more components in the codesandbox. When reporting a bug with ant design, we also strongly recommend using codesandbox to provide a reproducible demo as well.

4. Next Steps#arrow-up-right

During actual real-world project development, you will most likely need a development workflow consisting of compile/build/deploy/lint/debug/ deployment. You can read the following documents on the subject or use the following scaffolds and examples provided below:

Test with Jest#arrow-up-right

If you use create-react-app follow the instructions herearrow-up-right instead.

Jest does not support esm modules, and Ant Design uses them. In order to test your Ant Design application with Jest you have to add the following to your Jest config :

Import on Demand#arrow-up-right

antd supports tree shaking of ES modules, so using import { Button } from 'antd'; would drop js code you didn't use.

If you see logs like in the screenshot below, you might still be using webpack@1.x or have a wrong webpack config which can't support tree shaking.

console warning

Customize your Workflow#arrow-up-right

If you want to customize your workflow, we recommend using webpackarrow-up-right to build and debug code. You can try out plenty of boilerplatesarrow-up-right available in the React ecosystem.

There are also some scaffoldsarrow-up-right which have already been integrated into antd, so you can try and start with one of these and even contribute.

Real project with umi

In real project development, you may need data flow solutions such as Redux or MobX. Ant Design React is a UI library that can be used with data flow solutions and application frameworks in any React ecosystem. Based on the business scenario, we launched a pluggable enterprise-level application framework umi, which is recommended for use in the project.

And umiarrow-up-right is a routing-based framework that supports next.js-like conventional routingarrow-up-right and various advanced routing functions, such as routing-level on-demand loadingarrow-up-right. With a complete plugin systemarrow-up-right that covers every life cycle from source code to build product, umi is able to support various functional extensions and business needs; meanwhile Umi UIarrow-up-right is provided to enhance the development experience and development efficiency through Visual Aided Programming (VAP).

You may also be interested in Ant Design Proarrow-up-right, an Out-of-box UI solution for enterprise applications based on umi, dva and ant design.

This article will guide you to create a simple application from zero using Umi, dva and antd.

Install Umi#arrow-up-right

It is recommended to use yarn to create an application and execute the following command.

If you use npm, you can execute npx @umijs/create-umi-app with the same effect.

And if you want to use a fixed version of antd, you can install additional antd dependency in your project, and the antd dependencies declared in package.json will be used first.

Create Routes#arrow-up-right

We need to write an application displaying the list of products. The first step is to create a route.

If you don't have npx, you need to install it first to execute the commands under node_modules.

Then create a /products route,

In .umirc.ts configured in routing, if there is need to internationalization, can configure locale enable antd internationalization:

run yarn start then open http://localhost:8000/productsarrow-up-right in your browser and you should see the corresponding page.

Write UI Components#arrow-up-right

As your application grows and you notice you are sharing UI elements between multiple pages (or using them multiple times on the same page), in umi it's called reusable components.

Let's create a ProductList component that we can use in multiple places to show a list of products.

Create src/components/ProductList.tsx by typing:

Simple data management solution#arrow-up-right

@umijs/plugin-model is a simple data flow scheme based on the hooks paradigm, which can replace dva to perform global data flow in the middle stage under certain circumstances. We agree that the files in the src/models directory are the model files defined by the project. Each file needs to export a function by default, the function defines a hook, and files that do not meet the specifications will be filtered out.

The file name corresponds to the name of the final model, and you can consume the data in the model through the API provided by the plug-in.

Let's take a simple table as an example. First you need to create a new file src/models/useProductList.ts.

Edit src/pages/products.tsx and replace with the following:

Refresh your browser, you should see the following result:

A standard mid-to-back page generally requires a layout. This layout is often highly similar. ProLayout encapsulates commonly used menus, breadcrumbs, page headers and other functions, provides an independent framework and works out of the box Advanced layout components.

And supports three modes of side, mix, and top, and it also has built-in menu selection, the menu generates breadcrumbs, and automatically sets the logic of the page title. Can help you start a project quickly.

site

The method of use is also extremely simple, requiring only a few simple settings.

Click here Quick Startarrow-up-right.

Many data in an admin page does not need to be shared across pages, and models are sometimes not needed.

ProTable provides preset logic to handle loading, pagination and search forms, which can greatly reduce the amount of code, click here Quick Startarrow-up-right.

Now that we've written our application and verified that it works in development, it's time to get it ready for deployment to our users. To do so, execute the following command:

The build command packages up all of the assets that make up your application —— JavaScript, templates, CSS, web fonts, images, and more. Then you can find these files in the dist/ directory.

What's Next#arrow-up-right

We have completed a simple application, but you may still have lots of questions, such as:

  • How to handle onError globally and locally?

  • How to handle routes?

  • How to mock data?

  • How to deploy?

  • ant so on...

You can:

Use in create-react-app

create-react-apparrow-up-right is one of the best React application development tools. We are going to use antd within it and modify the webpack config for some customized needs.

Install and Initialization#arrow-up-right

Before all start, you may need install yarnarrow-up-right.

The tool will create and initialize environment and dependencies automatically, please try config your proxy setting or use another npm registry if any network errors happen during it.

Then we go inside antd-demo and start it.

Open the browser at http://localhost:3000/arrow-up-right. It renders a header saying "Welcome to React" on the page.

Import antd#arrow-up-right

Below is the default directory structure.

Now we install antd from yarn or npm.

Modify src/App.js, import Button component from antd.

Add antd/dist/antd.css at the top of src/App.css.

Ok, you should now see a blue primary button displayed on the page. Next you can choose any components of antd to develop your application. Visit other workflows of create-react-app at its User Guidearrow-up-right.

We are successfully running antd components now, go build your own application!

Test with Jest#arrow-up-right

create-react-app comes with jest built in. Jest does not support esm modules, and Ant Design uses them. In order to test your Ant Design application with Jest you have to add the following to your package.json :

Advanced Guides#arrow-up-right

In the real world, we usually have to modify default webpack config for custom needs such as themes. We can achieve that by using cracoarrow-up-right which is one of create-react-app's custom config solutions.

Install craco and modify the scripts field in package.json.

Then create a craco.config.js at root directory of your project for further overriding.

Customize Theme#arrow-up-right

According to the Customize Theme documentationarrow-up-right, we need to modify less variables via loader like less-loaderarrow-up-right. We can use craco-lessarrow-up-right to achieve that,

First we should modify src/App.css to src/App.less, then import less file instead.

Then install craco-less and modify craco.config.js like below.

By adding modifyVars option of less-loaderarrow-up-right here, we should see a green button rendered on the page after rebooting the server now.

We provide built-in dark theme and compact theme in antd, you can reference to Use dark or compact themearrow-up-right.

You could also try react-app-rewiredarrow-up-right and customize-craarrow-up-right to customize create-react-app webpack config like craco did.

You can also eject your application using yarn run ejectarrow-up-right for a custom setup of create-react-app, although you should dig into it by yourself.

Finally, we used antd with create-react-app successfully, the source code of this guide was pushed to create-react-app-antdarrow-up-right which you could clone and use it directly.

Next part, We will introduce how to use antd in TypeScriptarrow-up-right and Umiarrow-up-right, let's keep moving!

Customize Theme

Ant Design allows you to customize our design tokens to satisfy UI diversity from business or brand requirements, including primary color, border radius, border color, etc.

customized themes

Ant Design Less variables#arrow-up-right

We are using Lessarrow-up-right as the development language for styling. A set of less variables are defined for each design aspect that can be customized to your needs.

There are some major variables below, all less variables could be found in Default Variablesarrow-up-right.

Please report an issue if the existing list of variables is not enough for you.

How to do it#arrow-up-right

We will use modifyVarsarrow-up-right provided by less.js to override the default values of the variables, You can use this examplearrow-up-right as a live playground. We now introduce some popular way to do it depends on different workflow.

Customize in webpack#arrow-up-right

We take a typical webpack.config.js file as example to customize its less-loaderarrow-up-right options.

Note:

  1. Don't exclude node_modules/antd when using less-loader.

  2. lessOptions usage is supported at less-loader@6.0.0arrow-up-right.

Customize in Umi#arrow-up-right

You can easily use themearrow-up-right field in .umirc.ts or config/config.tsarrow-up-right file of your project root directory if you are using Umiarrow-up-right, which could be an object or a javascript file path.

Or just a javascript file patharrow-up-right:

Customize in create-react-app#arrow-up-right

Follow Use in create-react-apparrow-up-right.

Customize in less file#arrow-up-right

Another approach to customize theme is creating a less file within variables to override antd.less.

Note: This way will load the styles of all components, regardless of your demand, which cause style option of babel-plugin-import not working.

Dynamic theme#arrow-up-right

Runtime update theme color please ref this docarrow-up-right.

How to avoid modifying global styles?#arrow-up-right

Currently ant-design is designed as a whole experience and modify global styles (eg body etc). If you need to integrate ant-design as a part of an existing website, it's likely you want to prevent ant-design to override global styles.

While there's no canonical way to do it, you can take one of the following paths :

Configure webpack to load an alternate less file and scope global styles#arrow-up-right

It's possible to configure webpack to load an alternate less file:

Where the src/myStylesReplacement.less file loads the same files as the index.less file, but loads them within the scope of a top-level selector : the result is that all of the "global" styles are being applied with the #antd scope.

Use a postcss processor to scope all styles#arrow-up-right

See an example of usage with gulp and postcss-prefixwraparrow-up-right.

Not working?#arrow-up-right

You must import styles as less format. A common mistake would be importing multiple copied of styles that some of them are css format to override the less styles.

  • If you import styles by specifying the style option of babel-plugin-importarrow-up-right, change it from 'css' to true, which will import the less version of antd.

  • If you import styles from 'antd/dist/antd.css', change it to antd/dist/antd.less.

Official Themes 🌈#arrow-up-right

We have some official themes, try them out and give us some feedback!

Use dark or compact theme#arrow-up-right

Method 1: using Umi 3

If you're using Umi 3arrow-up-right:

Method 2: Import antd/dist/antd.dark.lessarrow-up-right or antd/dist/antd.compact.lessarrow-up-right in the style file:

If the project does not use Less, you can import antd.dark.cssarrow-up-right or antd/dist/antd.compact.cssarrow-up-right in the CSS file:

Note that you don't need to import antd/dist/antd.less or antd/dist/antd.css anymore, please remove it, and remove babel-plugin-import style config too. You can't enable two or more theme at the same time by this method.

Method 3: using less-loaderarrow-up-right in webpack.config.js to introduce as needed:

Replace Moment.js

You might want to replace Moment.js with another date library (**Ant design currently supports dayjsarrow-up-right and **date-fnsarrow-up-right) to reduce bundle size. We provide two ways to customize:

Custom component#arrow-up-right

The first way is to use generatePicker (or generateCalendar) to help create Picker components.

First, we initialize an antd demo with create-react-app. You can refer to Use in TypeScriptarrow-up-right, or you can start directly here init antdarrow-up-right

DatePicker.tsx#arrow-up-right

Create src/components/DatePicker.tsx.

For example:

TimePicker.tsx#arrow-up-right

Create src/components/TimePicker.tsx.

For example:

Calendar.tsx#arrow-up-right

Create src/components/Calendar.tsx.

For example:

Export Custom component#arrow-up-right

Create src/components/index.tsx.

For example:

Use Custom component#arrow-up-right

Modify src/App.tsx,import dayjs and custom component.

If the above steps do not work correctly, you can refer to antd4-generate-picker/antd-tsarrow-up-right.

If you need JavaScript code, you can refer to antd4-generate-picker/antd-demoarrow-up-right.

If you use umiarrow-up-right, you can reference antd4-use-dayjs-replace-momentarrow-up-right.

antd-dayjs-webpack-plugin#arrow-up-right

We also provide another implementation, which we provide with antd-dayjs-webpack-plugin, replacing momentjs with Day.js directly without changing a line of existing code. More info can be found at antd-dayjs-webpack-pluginarrow-up-right.

Use date-fns#arrow-up-right

date-fnsarrow-up-right currently supports custom component methods similar to dayjs. The difference is that the parameter types used are different. Support is provided in antd 4.5.0 and above.

For Example:

DatePicker.tsx#arrow-up-right

Create src/components/DatePicker.tsx.

Code as follows:

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FAQ:

Design Critiques

What are Design Critiques?

In Design Critiques, UX Engineers meet with the Design Manager at least once per sprint to present their design progress and planning for group discussion.

Our Goals

Go Deeper on Core Design Concepts

These sessions are an opportunity to empower you with a more nuanced understanding of UI/UX that you can carry into interviews.

Reinforce the Curriculum

By walking through active projects together throughout development, we'll naturally encounter clear, real-world case studies that provide examples of best practices.

Level Up Your Product's Quality

Design Critiques are a great opportunity to practice giving and receiving feedback in the context of team development.

Agenda

Pick Volunteers

We'll pick on a few UX Engineers to walk us through what they're working on!

Design Lead Presentations

Introduction

Each UX Engineer on the presenting team should give a very brief introduction of themselves and their design experience, then they should introduce their product to provide context.

Product Demo

With someone sharing their screen, the UX Engineer should collaboratively walk through either the live deployed version or a relevant local version of the product. The Design Manager facilitates a group discussion identifying aspects of the product demonstrating good UI/UX principles as well as aspects needing improvement.

Planning Artifact Presentation

With someone sharing their screen, the Design Leads should collaboratively walk through any design planning artifacts they've got (e.g. user flows, wireframes). The Design Manager facilitates a group discussion about the artifacts, the general design direction, and UI/UX concerns relevant to their product.

Now read on to see how Product Reviews work in Labs.

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