storefront-product-listing-page

Product Listing Page for Adobe Commerce Storefronts using Live Search

The product listing page provides coverage for both search and browse (PLP) results and includes the faceting, sorting, and product card areas on the page. This is the recommended default storefront PLP provided by Live Search. It provides a search experience that is client side rendered and hosted with a decoupled architecture.

The PLP calls the catalog service which extends the Live Search productSearch query to return product view data. This allows the PLP to render additional product attributes like swatches with a single call.

Learn more:

• Live Search https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/commerce-merchant-services/live-search/guide-overview.html?lang=en
• PLP https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/commerce-merchant-services/live-search/live-search-storefront/plp-styling.html?lang=en
• Catalog Service https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/webapi/graphql/schema/catalog-service/

Repo containing the Live Search PLP

This repo is provided as a reference implementation only. While you’re expected to create your own customizations based on these assets, those customizations can’t be supported by Adobe.

Best practices include:

• forking this repo
• periodically rebasing with develop

Setup

Requirements

Node and NPM setup: https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm

• Node version: v16 or greater
• NPM version: v8 or greater

NVM is a nifty tool to help toggle between enironment versions

Install dependencies

Within the root of the project (~/storefront-product-listing-page):

npm install

Storybook (mdx files)

Install storybook: https://storybook.js.org/docs/react/get-started/install

npm run storybook

Local Development

npm run dev

And open localhost:8080/v1/index.html in your favorite browser.

Unit Testing

npm run test

Build

npm run build

search.js will be built to ./dist/

Example setup:

import the script:

<script type="text/javascript" src="search.js"></script>

Setup the Store Details:

Most of these will be passed with the extension if you have your storefront setup. The SANDBOX_KEY (api key for the sandbox env) is the only key that will need to be set within webpack.

Store Variables needed:

      ENVIRONMENT_ID 
      WEBSITE_CODE 
      STORE_CODE 
      STORE_VIEW_CODE 
      CUSTOMER_GROUP_CODE 
      API_KEY 
      SANDBOX_KEY // input this key into webpack.dev.js & webpack.prod.js

• To set up sandbox keys please see here: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/commerce-merchant-services/catalog-service/installation.html?lang=en

insert into store details config

const storeDetails = {
      environmentId: 'ENVIRONMENT_ID',
      websiteCode: 'WEBSITE_CODE',
      storeCode: 'STORE_CODE',
      storeViewCode: 'STORE_VIEW_CODE',
      config: {
        minQueryLength: '2',
        pageSize: 8,
        perPageConfig: {
          pageSizeOptions: '12,24,36',
          defaultPageSizeOption: '24',
        },
        currencySymbol: '$',
        currencyRate: '1',
        displaySearchBox: true,
        displayOutOfStock: true,
        allowAllProducts: false,
      },
      context: {
        customerGroup: 'CUSTOMER_GROUP_CODE',
      },
      apiKey: 'API_KEY',
    };

Append LiveSearchPLP to the storefront window:

const root = document.querySelector('div.search-plp-root');

setTimeout(async () => {
      while (typeof window.LiveSearchPLP !== 'function') {
        console.log('waiting for window.LiveSearchPLP to be available');
        await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 500));
      }
      window.LiveSearchPLP({ storeDetails, root });
}, 1000);

You can see the example in dev-template.html

Theming and Styling

We use Tailwind to style/theme our components. Here's a good read up if you are keen: Tailwind Docs

In addition to this themeing, we have CSS classes where storefronts can target and customize specific components of the widget. CSS classes will be used to target specific components or elements of components for a more granular approach. In short, CSS variables can create a general theme and CSS classes can target specific elements in our widget.

With Tailwind we do not write custom CSS. Instead, we use its utility classes that are generated at buildtime using a config we provide and scanning our markup (this way we don't have extra CSS we don't need). This is our config file.

So how do we use CSS variables to style our components? Great question 😄

Let's say as if I want to style an element with the theme's primary color. Normally, in CSS we would have done the following:

<style>
 .primaryColor {
    color: var(--primary-color)
 }
</style>

<div class="primaryColor">
  Yippee I am a primary color!
</div>

Using Tailwind the following produces the exact same result:

<div class="text-primary">
  Yippee I am a primary color!
</div>

Looking at the config file you will notice that the CSS variable is --color-primary is mapped to the Tailwind CSS theme color key primary. this means anywhere in Tailwind you would use a Color key in a class you can now use the word primary.

You can add your own variables to tokens.css. Furthermore, you can define your own tailwind classes using these variables in the config file.

Have tailwind only apply to the nested widget

Follow the tailwind nesting documentation. Your postcss.config will look like this:

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    require('postcss-import'),
    require('tailwindcss/nesting'),
    require('autoprefixer'),
    require('tailwindcss'),
    require('cssnano'),
  ],
};

From there you should be able to nest the tailwind classes:

@import 'tailwindcss/base';
@import 'tailwindcss/components';
@import 'tailwindcss/utilities';

within .ds-widgets in token.css

.ds-widgets {
  @import 'tailwindcss/base';
  @import 'tailwindcss/components';
  @import 'tailwindcss/utilities';

  ...
}

Some helpful tools when developing with tailwind:

• Tailwind CSS Intellisense

Hosting with CDN

Follow the below instructions on how to host with CDN and update your Commerce store to include your new product listing page.

1. In the root of this repository, install dependencies: npm install
2. Create a production build of the application: npm run build
3. After the previous step succeeds, it will output a search.js file in the dist/ directory. This is the production-ready product listing page.
4. Follow the instructions from your favorite frontend hosting with CDN (we use AWS S3 + Cloudfront, but there are many options to choose from) to upload the search.js file.
5. The hosting platform with CDN will provide you a url where the search.js file will be publicly hosted for your consumption.
6. Take the url where the search.js file is hosted and validate in your browser that it is working correctly by loading the url in your browser and seeing the search.js file returned to you.
7. Now the Live Search extension needs to be updated to include your new url. Find the magento-live-search extension code in your adobe commerce code base. Locate the directory LiveSearchProductListing.
8. We will be updating two files under magento-live-search > LiveSearchProductListing: etc/config.xml & etc/csp_whitelist.xml
9. Changes for etc/config.xml: change the live search url in <frontend_url>to match the one you created with your hosting/CDN solution url above. See below.
10. 
11. Changes for etc/csp_whitelist.xml: find all references to the live search SaaS product list page (plp-widgets-ui.magento.ds.com) and replace with your hosting/CDN solution url. See below.
12. 
13. Those are all the required changes. Now redeploy your adobe commerce store code and see your new custom product listing page in your storefront.