Usage #

Installation #

Install the @wikimedia/codex and @wikimedia/codex-icons packages from NPM:

npm install --save-dev @wikimedia/codex @wikimedia/codex-icons

Some projects may not need the icons package, but most do.

You will also need to install Vue.js in order to use Codex components.

Using components #

Import the components you need from the @wikimedia/codex package, and pass them into the components setting of your component:

<template>
  <div>
    <cdx-button action="progressive" type="primary">
      Click me!
    </cdx-button>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import { defineComponent } from 'vue';
import { CdxButton } from '@wikimedia/codex';

export default defineComponent( {
  components: {
    CdxButton
  },
  // ...
} );
</script>

Find documentation for individual components in the “Components” section. For example, the documentation for CdxButton is at “Button” page.

Using icons #

Import the icons you need from the @wikimedia/codex-icons package, put them in your component's data, then pass them to a Codex component as a prop:

<template>
  <div>
    <cdx-button action="destructive">
      <cdx-icon :icon="cdxIconTrash" /> Delete this item
    </cdx-button>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import { defineComponent } from 'vue';
import { CdxButton, CdxIcon } from '@wikimedia/codex';
import { cdxIconTrash } from '@wikimedia/codex-icons';

export default defineComponent( {
  components: {
    CdxButton,
    CdxIcon
  },
  data: () => ( {
    cdxIconTrash
  } ),
  // ...
} );
</script>

For more information about icons, see the icon documentation, and the list of all icons.

Using design tokens #

The design tokens are not yet ready for external use at this time.

Read more about the different packages and their contents.

Versioning #

Codex follows the semantic versioning standard. The current version is 0.2.1. Subsequent versions will continue to be numbered 0.x.y, until Codex is stable and mature enough to warrant a 1.0.0 release. If a release contains breaking changes, the minor version number (the x in 0.x.y) will be incremented, and the breaking changes will be clearly documented in CHANGELOG.md.

Bidirectionality support #

Codex has limited support for bidirectional text. It supports pages that are entirely in a left-to-right (LTR) script, or pages that are entirely in a right-to-left (RTL) script. It does not support pages with a mix of LTR and RTL content, or pages whose directionality changes at runtime, except in some special cases.

Codex provides two direction-specific stylesheets. On LTR pages, use codex.style.css; on RTL pages, use codex.style-rtl.css. Codex does not provide a single stylesheet using attribute selectors like [dir='rtl'] to set the right style for each direction, because of the significant limitations of this approach.

Some Codex components detect the direction of the surrounding content, and adjust their behavior accordingly, for example in how they respond to the left and right arrow keys. Icons also adjust to the surrounding direction. For more information on how bidirectionality is handled for icons, see the icon documentation.

For more information on this topic, see the developer documentation on bidirectionality.