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Tim von Oldenburg
April 05, 2017
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Scaling Skyscanner's design system
Talk given at the React Edinburgh meetup on 5th April 2017.
Image credits on second last slide.
Tim von Oldenburg
April 05, 2017
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Scaling Skyscanner’s Design System React Edinburgh, 2017-04-05 How we use
the React ecosystem for fun and profit. 1
! Tim von Oldenburg twitter.com/sweeneytimm github.com/tvooo tvooo.de Skyscanner skyscanner.net Backpack
Design System 2
What we’re going to talk about —Design systems —Practices we
apply —Obstacles we encounter(ed) —Lego 3
Design systems “Backpack is a collection of design resources, reusable
components and guidelines for creating Skyscanner products.” 4
Design systems Atomic design React components are on the atoms
and molecules level. 5
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Design systems Getting the level of abstraction just right. 9
Practices & Approaches —Encapsulation —Choice —Composition 10
Encapsulation Every component in its own NPM package. bpk-component-button bpk-component-datepicker
bpk-component-input … Each contains: —Markup —JavaScript —Styles 11
Encapsulation (contd.) Keyboard and screenreader accessible Right-to-left support and i18n
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Encapsulation (contd.) Themeing Build-time themeing through design tokens 13
Choice Leave details to the consumer Most of our components
are stateless. But we ship stateful containers for common use cases, too. Accordion AccordionContainer Calendar Datepicker 14
Composition Composing common patterns Button + Icon + Spinner <Button
disabled={this.state.isLoading}> Search { this.state.isLoading ? <Spinner fill="grey" /> : <SearchIcon fill="white" /> } </Button> 15
Composition (contd.) Composing common patterns Button + Icon + Spinner
= Loading button <LoadingButton loading={this.state.isLoading}> Search </LoadingButton> 16
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Obstacles But not all is great in component land… 18
Obstacles Teams use all kinds of technology stacks: Angular, Backbone,
Coffeescript. —No prioritisation from Product Owners —The design system does not provide everything needed —Rewrites are too expensive —Risky investment at scale 19
Upgrade paths: Sass Provide easy-to-adopt Sass mixins and variables ➡
Achieve visual consistency fast and cheap. 20
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Upgrade paths: Other libraries/frameworks But what about molecules? ➡ Embed
individual (complex) components using ReactDOM. - Angular? ngReact, react2angular - Anything else? This amazing PR 22
Provide common tools For consistency and to get started: —ESLint
config —Stylelint config —Webpack config ➡ create-react-app template create-react-app my-app --scripts-version=backpack-react-scripts 23
Get your hands dirty Take your time to dig into
product teams’ code bases and find ways to help them transition easily. 24
Conflicting styles One page, one component, many versions. ➡ CSS-in-JS
(such as styled-jsx) ➡ CSS Modules 25
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Thanks! Oh btw, we’re hiring a Senior Front End Engineer
to help us build the Backpack design system ! ➡ Get in touch! 27
Images: —Tiny toy Lego plane: Sebastian Wahl —Design systems diagram:
Stu Robson —Detailed Lego planes: Flickr —Colorful Lego plane: Flickr —Lego “Just Right”: Reddit 28
Further links: —Backpack Design System —Atomic Design principles by Brad
Frost —Ryan Florence - Don't Rewrite, React! 29