Becky Siegel d450a9eb57 Respect default font size preference from browsers
We encountered an issue where PolyGerrit was not respecting browser
font preferences. Browser font preferences include both a default font
size and a minimum font size.

In the event that a font declared in px is smaller than the minimum font
size, the size is increased to equal the minimum font size. However,
if the font is declared in px and greater than the minimum, the
preferred font size is not taken into account.

Browsers' default font size is 16px [1], So instead of declaring the
base font in px (previously 13px), this change makes it a percentage
of the default font size. If the user has changed their default, this
is taken into account.

From this point, all other fonts will be declared in rems, which makes
it easier to base the new size off of the base font size of the <html>
tag, rather than ems which bases it on the container[2]. This allows us
to declare font sizes in a way more similar to pixels, yet relative.

A follow-up change will change all font size declaration to use rem from
em for consistency.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29511983/is-the-default-font-size-of-every-browser-16px-why
[2] https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/comprehensive-guide-when-to-use-em-vs-rem--cms-23984

Bug: Issue 8157
Change-Id: I04ec2c861b2fb288ec7556dfb655d7feea9c9157
2018-01-27 00:29:32 +00:00
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PolyGerrit

Installing Bazel

Follow the instructions here to get and install Bazel.

Installing Node.js and npm packages

The minimum nodejs version supported is 6.x+

# Debian experimental
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
sudo apt-get install npm

# OS X with Homebrew
brew install node
brew install npm

All other platforms: download from nodejs.org.

Various steps below require installing additional npm packages. The full list of dependencies can be installed with:

sudo npm install -g \
  eslint \
  eslint-config-google \
  eslint-plugin-html \
  typescript \
  fried-twinkie \
  polylint \
  web-component-tester

It may complain about a missing typescript@2.3.4 peer dependency, which is harmless.

If you're interested in the details, keep reading.

Local UI, Production Data

This is a quick and easy way to test your local changes against real data. Unfortunately, you can't sign in, so testing certain features will require you to use the "test data" technique described below.

Installing go

This is required for running the run-server.sh script below.

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install golang

# OS X with Homebrew
brew install go

All other platforms: download from golang.org

Then add go to your path:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

Running the server

To test the local UI against gerrit-review.googlesource.com:

./run-server.sh

Then visit http://localhost:8081

Local UI, Test Data

One-time setup:

  1. Build Gerrit
  2. Set up a local test site. Docs here and here.

When your project is set up and works using the classic UI, run a test server that serves PolyGerrit:

bazel build polygerrit &&
  $(bazel info output_base)/external/local_jdk/bin/java \
  -jar bazel-bin/polygerrit.war daemon --polygerrit-dev \
  -d ../gerrit_testsite --console-log --show-stack-trace

Running Tests

This step requires the web-component-tester npm module.

Run all web tests:

./polygerrit-ui/app/run_test.sh

To allow the tests to run in Safari:

  • In the Advanced preferences tab, check "Show Develop menu in menu bar".
  • In the Develop menu, enable the "Allow Remote Automation" option.

If you need to pass additional arguments to wct:

WCT_ARGS='-p --some-flag="foo bar"' ./polygerrit-ui/app/run_test.sh

For interactively working on a single test file, do the following:

./polygerrit-ui/run-server.sh

Then visit http://localhost:8081/elements/foo/bar_test.html

Style guide

We follow the Google JavaScript Style Guide with a few exceptions. When in doubt, remain consistent with the code around you.

In addition, we encourage the use of ESLint. It is available as a command line utility, as well as a plugin for most editors and IDEs.

eslint-config-google is a port of the Google JS Style Guide to an ESLint config module, and eslint-plugin-html allows ESLint to lint scripts inside HTML. We have an .eslintrc.json config file in the polygerrit-ui/ directory configured to enforce the preferred style of the PolyGerrit project. After installing, you can use eslint on any new file you create. In addition, you can supply the --fix flag to apply some suggested fixes for simple style issues. If you modify JS inside of <script> tags, like for test suites, you may have to supply the --ext .html flag.

Some useful commands:

  • To run ESLint on the whole app, less some dependency code: eslint --ignore-pattern 'bower_components/' --ignore-pattern 'gr-linked-text' --ignore-pattern 'scripts/vendor' --ext .html,.js polygerrit-ui/app
  • To run ESLint on just the subdirectory you modified: eslint --ext .html,.js polygerrit-ui/app/$YOUR_DIR_HERE
  • To run the linter on all of your local changes: git diff --name-only master | xargs eslint --ext .html,.js

We also use the polylint tool to lint use of Polymer. To install polylint, execute the following command.

To run polylint, execute the following command.

bazel test //polygerrit-ui/app:polylint_test

Template Type Safety

Polymer elements are not type checked against the element definition, making it trivial to break the display when refactoring or moving code. We now run additional tests to help ensure that template types are checked.

A few notes to ensure that these tests pass

  • Any functions with optional parameters will need closure annotations.
  • Any Polymer parameters that are nullable or can be multiple types (other than the one explicitly delared) will need type annotations.

These tests require the typescript and fried-twinkie npm packages.

To run on all files, execute the following command:

bazel test //polygerrit-ui/app:all --test_tag_filters=template --test_output errors

To run on a specific top level directory (ex: change-list)

bazel test //polygerrit-ui/app:template_test_change-list --test_output errors

To run on a specific file (ex: gr-change-list-view), execute the following command:

bazel test //polygerrit-ui/app:template_test_<TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORY> --test_arg=<VIEW_NAME> --test_output errors
bazel test //polygerrit-ui/app:template_test_change-list --test_arg=gr-change-list-view  --test_output errors