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Helps update UUI documentation, add doc examples, configure Property Explorer, and manage component API documentation. Use when adding documentation examples, updating Property Explorer configs, generating API references, working with UUI documentation site, or when adding/removing/modifying public props on component interfaces.

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UUI Documentation

UUI documentation is published on uui.epam.com. Sources are in ./app folder.

Dependency: Property Explorer configs and doc examples use @epam/uui-docs, which provides DocBuilder, TDocContext, TSkin, DocPreviewBuilder, demo API, and PE editors. The package lives in uui-docs/.

Add Doc Example

  1. Go to app/src/docs/_examples and open/add folder for your component
  2. Add example file: example-name.example.tsx
  3. Add link in page config (app/src/docs/pages/components/<component>.json): 
    {
    "id": "alert",
    "name": "Alert",
    "parentId": "components",
    "examples": [
        { "descriptionPath": "alert-descriptions" },
        { "name": "Basic", "componentPath": "alert/Basic.example.tsx" }
    ]
}
  4. If adding new page, register it in app/src/documents/structure/components.ts for sidebar menu
  5. Open local environment (http://localhost:9009/), navigate to page, add description via RTE field

Property Explorer

Property Explorer lets users interactively test components in different prop variations. Most content is auto-generated from component prop types.

Preview vs screenshot tests: The preview function in explorerConfigs defines Preview pages for documentation — users can switch props and see changes. Screenshot tests (in e2e-testing) use these same previews to capture baseline images. Create previews here for docs; add screenshot test entries in preview.e2e.ts to include them in E2E.

Add/Update ExplorerConfig

  1. Go to app/src/docs/explorerConfigs and find/add config file
  2. Use same id as page config where PE should be connected
  3. Add contexts: 
    contexts: [
    TDocContext.Default,
    TDocContext.Resizable,
    TDocContext.Form,
    TDocContext.Table
]
  4. Define bySkin mapping: 
    bySkin: {
    [TSkin.UUI]: { type: '@epam/uui:TextInputProps', component: uui.TextInput },
    [TSkin.Loveship]: { type: '@epam/uui:TextInputProps', component: loveship.TextInput },
    [TSkin.Promo]: { type: '@epam/uui:TextInputProps', component: promo.TextInput },
    [TSkin.Electric]: { type: '@epam/uui:TextInputProps', component: electric.TextInput },
}
  5. (Optional) Override prop editor defaults: 
    doc: (doc: DocBuilder<uui.TextInputProps>) => {
    doc.merge('type', { defaultValue: 'text' });
    doc.merge('maxLength', { examples: [10, 20, 30] });
}

API Block

Component API section is auto-generated from prop interfaces.

Generate locally:

yarn generate-components-api

Important: You must run this command whenever public props are added, removed, or modified on any component interface (in uui-core, uui-components, or uui). Without this step, new or changed props will not appear in the Property Explorer or API docs.

External Themes

To connect external themes (not in UUI repo):

  1. Add to localStorage:

    localStorage.setItem('uui-custom-themes', JSON.stringify({
    customThemes: [
        "https://cdn.example.com/theme-1",
        "https://cdn.example.com/theme-2"
    ]
}))

  2. Theme URL must serve /theme-manifest.json with structure:

    interface IThemeManifest {
    id: string;
    name: string;
    css: string[];
    settings?: string | null;
    propsOverride?: { [typeRef: string]: { [propName: string]: IThemeManifestPropOverride } };
}

Workflow

When adding new functionality:

  1. Add doc example in app/src/docs/_examples
  2. Update page config to link example
  3. Create/update explorerConfig for Property Explorer
  4. Generate API: yarn generate-components-api
  5. Test locally at http://localhost:9009/