Veteran Facing Services tools

This repo contains front end code and documentation used by the Veteran facing services on VA.gov. It's a monorepo managed by Lerna, a tool for managing versioning and publishing for multiple modules located in a single repo.

There is another repository for the documentation site. The documentation site can be viewed at design.va.gov.

Repositories

• formation
  • Styles and assets for the VA design system
• formation-react
  • React implementations of some of the patterns in formation.
• documentation
  • Documentation for how the set of Veteran facing services platform works

Setup

• You need Homebrew. To install Homebrew, follow these instructions
• You also need Yarn. To install Yarn, you'll use Homebrew. In Terminal, run brew install yarn

Clone the veteran-facing-services-tools repo:

You can put the repo anywhere on your computer, but as a suggestion:

• In Terminal, navigate to your desktop: cd ~/desktop
• Clone the Github repo by running: git clone https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/veteran-facing-services-tools.git
• Then: cd veteran-facing-services-tools
• Run yarn to install dependencies for each module

Commands

Available npm scripts:

• build: Builds the code in each repo and outputs it to the appropriate locations for publishing
• test: Runs the tests in each repo
• lint: Runs the linter in each repo

Updating formation and formation-react

The process for updating formation and formation-react can be found at https://department-of-veterans-affairs.github.io/veteran-facing-services-tools/getting-started/common-tasks/updating-formation