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John Cowen 6fbeea5def
ui: Don't default to the default namespace, use the token default namespace instead (#10503)
The default namespace, and the tokens default namespace (or its origin namespace) is slightly more complicated than other things we deal with in the UI, there's plenty of info/docs on this that I've added in this PR.

Previously:

When a namespace was not specified in the URL, we used to default to the default namespace. When you logged in using a token we automatically forward you the namespace URL that your token originates from, so you are then using the namespace for your token by default. You can of course then edit the URL to remove the namespace portion, or perhaps revisit the UI at the root path with you token already set. In these latter cases we would show you information from the default namespace. So if you had no namespace segment/portion in the URL, we would assume default, perform actions against the default namespace and highlight the default namespace in the namespace selector menu. If you wanted to perform actions in your tokens origin namespace you would have to manually select it from the namespace selector menu.

This PR:

Now, when you have no namespace segment/portion in the URL, we use the token's origin namespace instead (and if you don't have a token, we then use the default namespace like it was previously)

Notes/thoughts:

I originally thought we were showing an incorrectly selected namespace in the namespace selector, but it also matched up with what we were doing with the API, so it was in fact correct. The issue was more that we weren't selecting the origin namespace of the token for the user when a namespace segment was omitted from the URL. Seeing as we automatically forward you to the tokens origin namespace when you log in, and we were correctly showing the namespace we were acting on when you had no namespace segment in the URL (in the previous case default), I'm not entirely sure how much of an issue this actually was.

This characteristic of namespace+token+namespace is a little weird and its easy to miss a subtlety or two so I tried to add some documentation in here for future me/someone else (including some in depth code comment around one of the API endpoints where this is very subtle and very hard to miss). I'm not the greatest at words, so would be great to get some edits there if it doesn't seem clear to folks.

The fact that we used to save your previous datacenter and namespace into local storage for reasons also meant the interaction here was slightly more complicated than it needed to be, so whilst we were here we rejigged things slightly to satisfy said reasons still but not use local storage (we try and grab the info from higher up). A lot of the related code here is from before we had our Routlets which I think could probably make all of this a lot less complicated, but I didn't want to do a wholesale replacement in this PR, we can save that for a separate PR on its own at some point.
2021-07-07 11:46:41 +01:00
John Cowen 9e715842d9
ui: Improves UI engineering docs (#9875)
Also fixes some typos in with-overlay
2021-03-17 15:58:17 +00:00
John Cowen 308e5a480e
ui: Remove storybook, add docfy (#9831)
This PR removes storybook and adds docfy and uses docfy to render our existing README files.

This now means we can keep adding README documentation without committing any specific format or framework. If we eventually move to storybook then fine, or if we just want to remove docfy for whatever reason then fine - we will still have a full set of README files viewable via GitHub.
2021-03-08 12:22:01 +00:00
John Cowen 6589cbbd0d
ui: Move to Workspaced Structure (#8994)
* ui: Add the most basic workspace root in /ui

* We already have a LICENSE file in the repository root

* Change directory path in build scripts ui-v2 -> ui

* Make yarn install flags configurable from elsewhere

* Minimal workspace root makefile

* Call the new docker specific target

* Update yarn in the docker build image

* Reconfigure the netlify target and move to the higher makefile

* Move ui-v2 -> ui/packages/consul-ui

* Change repo root to refleect new folder structure

* Temporarily don't hoist consul-api-double

* Fixup CI configuration

* Fixup lint errors

* Fixup Netlify target
2020-10-21 15:23:16 +01:00