Canvas Kit Preview

This is a group of coming-soon components that have had a full design and a11y review, and are approved for use in product. Their functionality and design are set, but the APIs and/or underlying architecture could still be subject to change. This bundle serves as a staging ground for components that are ready to use, but may not be up to the high code standards upheld in the main @workday/canvas-kit-react bundle.

Generally, Canvas Kit Preview components were originally in Canvas Kit Labs and have been promoted. Essentially, Canvas Kit Labs is for alpha components and Canvas Kit Preview is for beta components.

Breaking Changes

Due to the nature of this bundle of components, we will be continuously iterating. This could potentially mean a breaking change (though much less likely than Labs components). The goal of this bundle is to work unconstrained by our design system's semantic versioning. This means that breaking changes can be deployed to Preview modules at any time and it will not trigger a major version bump across our other modules. Regardless of the fact that we use a fixed version number for all components, all changes/additions in this bundle will never result in a major version bump across our component library. Should breaking changes arise, we will provide strong communication and migration strategies.

By consuming any of these modules, you acknowledge the potential complexity of updating and ultimately performing a migration when components are promoted to a stable version.

These components are purely opt in, so they are not included in the main module @workday/canvas-kit-react.

Support

• Docs & examples
• Change announcements & migration strategies
• Longer stretches between any potential breaking changes
• Migration to main module might still require some effort
• Direct support is available, but we prioritize Main components first

Module Structure

Creating a Canvas Kit Preview Component

1. Run yarn create-component
2. When asked What category should this component live in?, select Preview (beta).
3. Your new module will be generated in accordance with the file structure above. It will get a package name of @workday/canvas-kit-preview-react/<COMPONENT>.
4. If you had the storybook server running, you may need to restart it.

Promoting a Component out of Canvas Kit Preview

1. Run yarn promote-component