Clay

Clay is Liferay’s web implementation of the Lexicon Experience Language. Built with Bootstrap as a foundation, it’s comprised of HTML, CSS, and JS.

🚨 This Branch contains the version of Clay v3, if you are looking for the components in Metal.js visit the 2.x branch.

Browser support
Packages
Documentation
Migration Guides
Setup
Troubleshooting Setup
clayui.com
Contributing
License

Browser support

Packages

Clay repository follows the monorepo approach, all the major components that are the pillars of Clay are here in this repository.

Clay CSS: The pillar to give colors and structure to Clay, where is the css and examples of HTML markups of the components.
Clay React Components: A set of components that use clay-css and Lexicon guidelines, developed with React.js
clayui.com: The source code for our documentation site.

Documentation

You can find the Clay documentation on the site. Here are some useful links:

Migration Guides

Do you already have the Clay v2 components implemented in your project? These guides will help you perform the migration from Clay v2 to v3.

Migrate the Clay components from v2 to v3

Setup

To contribute to this project, here are the required steps to setup everything:

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/liferay/clay.git

Download and install the latest lts version of Node.js for your operating system.
Install the required global dependencies:

npm install -g yarn

Install the project’s dependencies:

yarn

Install the dependencies for each package and link them together:

yarn lerna

Build all packages:

yarn build

Compile all clay-css files and start the storybook server:

yarn workspace @clayui/css run build && yarn storybook

Additionally, you can run the tests for all packages with the following command:

yarn test

Troubleshooting Setup

The latest version of Python that is supported to build Clay locally is 3.10. There is an error when setting up the Clay project with Python 3.12.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/clay/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:325:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:519:28)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:294:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 20.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/clay/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /clay/node_modules/deasync
gyp ERR! node -v v20.15.1

You will need to switch to Python 3.10. Instructions for switching Python versions:

Linux

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-switch-between-python-versions-on-fedora-linux

UNIX/MACOS

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

Once you are running the correct Python version, you need to clear the cache in the /node_modules/ directory.

rm -rf node_modules

You should also clear the /node_modules/ directory in Clay CSS.

rm -rf packages/clay-css/node_modules

Then re-run yarn in the /clay/ directory and in /packages/clay-css/.

clayui.com

To contribute to the documentation, you can run the site locally to test your changes:

Navigate to the site’s directory:

cd clayui.com

Install the dependencies:

yarn

Run the site in a development environment:

yarn develop

If you want to test in a production environment so that you do not take risks of inconsistencies, issue the following command in the root directory:

yarn site

Contributing

Feel free to create issues or submit pull requests. Clay is actively maintained and your contributions are always welcome.

Before opening a issue make sure it exists.

See the contribution guide for more details.