Carbon for IBM Products is an open-source implementation of the closed source Carbon for Cloud & Cognitive pattern asset library (PAL). These PAL designs build on the foundation of IBM's open source Carbon Design System and React implementation to offer components and patterns beyond the typical component library. Carbon for IBM Products was previously known as Carbon for IBM Cloud and Cognitive (@carbon/ibm-cloud-cognitive), and this name can still be encountered in various places and historical logs.
Carbon for IBM Products common UI components
If you're just getting started and looking to browse our React components, take a look at our Storybook.
To use Carbon for IBM Products components, all you need to do is install the
@carbon/ibm-products package.
$ yarn add @carbon/ibm-products
# or
$ npm install @carbon/ibm-productsThen you can import the component styles in your index.js.
import '@carbon/ibm-products/css/index.min.css';@carbon/ibm-products is built on top of Carbon components and has a number of dependencies which need to be installed. Follow the package instructions for:
-. Install carbon-components-react as per that packages instructions https://www.npmjs.com/package/carbon-components-react -. Install @carbon/icons-react as per package instructions https://www.npmjs.com/package/@carbon/icons-react -. Install @carbon/elements as per package instructions https://www.npmjs.com/package/@carbon/elements
NOTE: Carbon elements rolls up a number of Carbon packages that could be installed independently. As this list of dependencies could change, we leave you to view package.json in ibm-cloud-cognitive if you wish to install individual packages.
Examples for each released component, and some that are still not quite ready, can be found here on Code Sandbox.
You can find example projects using the components in the examples folder.
To start using the components
import { AboutModal } from '@carbon/ibm-products';
const App = () => {
return <AboutModal />;
};Components that have not yet completed the release review process are considered
to be canary and require the consumer to enable via a feature flag in a
config.js file.
For example, create a config.js in your src directory:
import { pkg } from '@carbon/ibm-products';
// Enable 'canary' (not yet reviewed/released) components
// that we want to make use of
pkg.component.AboutModal = true;
pkg.component.SidePanel = true;
// Live dangerously: enable all components!
pkg.setAllComponents(true);
// Enable all pre-release feature flags that we want to use
pkg.flags.noneJustYet = true;
// Live dangerously: enable all pre-release features!
pkg.setAllFeatures(true);Note: the above settings must happen before a component first renders.
To get started run the following commands and storybook will be built and then
served on port 3000 on your local machine.
yarn install
yarn storybook
To build all the packages, run the following command.
yarn build
This library supports the latest versions of:
- Apple Safari
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
This project was made possible by several community members who have invested their precious time to give back to the Carbon community. It will continue to be possible by having those that benefit from the package contribute back to it.
So, do not be shy. We both depend on and appreciate contributors, new and old, who help us fix bugs, build new features, improve our documentation, etc.
If you're interested, definitely check out our Contributing Guide and Carbon's Developer Handbook! 👀
 Lee Chase 💻 |
 Dave Clark 💻 |
 Syd Rosa 💻 |
 David Menendez 💻 |
 Matthew Gallo 💻 |
 Simon Finney 💻 |
 Simon Moore 💻 |
 Polina Olemskaia 💻 |
In order to gather usage information for these components we use @carbon/telemetry.
Licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.
