Elastic's Next.js EUI Starter

Important

This starter is not constantly maintained and is out of sync with the latest EUI release. The lack of SSR support also currently makes Next.js a challenge with EUI. We plan to enhance our support for Next.js and re-evaulate this project at that time. You can follow along with that initiative with this issue in the EUI repository.

Jump right in to building prototypes with EUI.

🚀 Super-quick start using CodeSandbox

1. Go to https://codesandbox.io/s/github/elastic/next-eui-starter and start editing. CodeSandbox will fork the sandbox when you make changes!

🚀 Quick start

1. Install yarn

   This starter expects to use yarn to manage dependencies, so go install it.

2. Copy the Next.js starter

   Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/elastic/next-eui-starter.git my-eui-starter

3. Start developing.

   Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.

   cd my-eui-starter/
   
   # Install depdendencies.
   yarn
   
   # Optional: start a new git project
   rm -rf .git && git init && git add . && git commit -m "Initial commit"
   
   # Start the dev server
   yarn dev

4. Open the source code and start editing!

   Your site is now running at http://localhost:3000!

   Open the my-eui-starter directory in your code editor of choice and edit src/pages/index.tsx. Save your changes and the browser will update in real time!

5. Deploy your site to GitHub Pages

   When you're ready to deploy and share your site to GitHub Pages, you can use the provided yarn build-docs script to do so. The first time you do this, you need to do some preparation:

   1. (Optional) If you need to, set the pathPrefix option in next.config.js to reflect the name of your GitHub repo. The starter kit will try to derive this itself, so you're unlikely to see to do anything here.
   2. (Optional) Commit the above change
   3. Create the GitHub pages branch: git branch gh-pages

   Then whenever you want to update your site:

   1. Commit any pending changes
   2. Run yarn build-docs
   3. Publish the master and gh-pages branches by pushing them to GitHub: git push origin master gh-pages
   4. Edit your repository settings to ensure your repository is configured so that the gh-pages branch is used for serving the site. (You only need to do this once, but you have to push the branch before you can change this setting)
   5. Access your site at https://your-username.github.io/repo-name. There can be a slight delay before changes become visible.

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🧐 What's inside?

A quick look at the top-level files and directories you'll see in this project.

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├── .eslintrc.js
├── .gitignore
├── .next/
├── .prettierrc
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── next.config.js
├── node_modules/
├── package.json
├── public/
├── src/
├── tsconfig.json
└── yarn.lock

1. .eslintrc.js: This file configures ESLint, which will check the code for potential problems and style issues. It also integrates with Prettier for formatting.

2. .gitignore: This file tells git which files it should not track / not maintain a version history for.

3. .next: The next command line tool uses this for various purposes. You should never need to touch it, but you can delete it without causing any problems.

4. .prettierrc: This is a configuration file for Prettier. Prettier is a tool to help keep the formatting of your code consistent.

5. LICENSE: Next.js is licensed under the MIT license.

6. README.md: A text file containing useful reference information about your project.

7. next.config.js: This file customizes the Next.js build process so that it can work with EUI.

8. node_modules/: This directory contains all of the modules of code that your project depends on (npm packages) are automatically installed.

9. package.json: A manifest file for Node.js projects, which includes things like metadata (the project’s name, author, etc). This manifest is how npm knows which packages to install for your project.

10. public/: Files that will never change can be put here. This starter project automatically puts EUI theme files here during the build

11. src/: This directory will contain all of the code related to what you will see on the front-end of your site (what you see in the browser) such as your site header or a page template. src is a convention for “source code”.

12. tsconfig.json: This file configures the TypeScript compiler

13. yarn.lock (See package.json below, first). This is an automatically generated file based on the exact versions of your npm dependencies that were installed for your project. (You won’t change this file directly, but you need to commit any changes to git).

🎓 Learning Next.js

Looking for more guidance? Full documentation for Next.js lives on the website. You probably want to being by following the Getting Started Guide.

Other features

• Bundle analysis - run yarn analyze and two windows will open in your browser, showing how big your server and client bundles are, and where that data is coming from. You can use this information to work out where you're sending too much data to the client, and speed up your pages.