Operator screens and process graphics
Faceplate <smart-faceplate>
Faceplate is a control loop faceplate that shows the process value, the setpoint and the controller output of a loop together with its mode.
Getting Started with React Faceplate Component
The Smart.Industrial React components need React 18 or later, because they render through react-dom/client. The steps use Vite with its react-ts template.
The complete demo in React is on the demo page, file by file.
1 Create a Vite + React + TypeScript app
npm create vite@latest my-smart-app -- --template react-ts
cd my-smart-app
thennpm install
2 Install Smart.Industrial
npm install smart-industrial
3 Import styles and render the component
The sample replaces the content of src/App.tsx. It imports the stylesheets and the Faceplate component, sets the properties the demo sets and handles the setpointChange event. It compiles under the template's strict TypeScript settings.
import 'smart-industrial/source/styles/smart.default.css';
import 'smart-industrial/source/styles/smart.industrial-elements.css';
import 'smart-industrial/source/styles/smart.industrial.css';
import { Faceplate } from 'smart-industrial/react/faceplate';
function App() {
// Raised when a new setpoint is requested.
const handleSetpointChange = (event: CustomEvent) => {
const { value, tag } = event.detail;
// The component waits. The application carries out the request here.
console.log('setpointChange', value, tag);
};
return (
<Faceplate
theme="industrial"
tag="TIC-204"
description="Jacket temperature"
unit="°C"
min={0}
max={150}
processValue={84.2}
setpoint={85}
output={41}
mode="auto"
quality="stale"
precisionDigits={1}
interactive
onSetpointChange={handleSetpointChange}
/>
);
}
export default App;
The sample sets interactive because the component takes input from the operator only when it is interactive.
The template's src/main.tsx renders App and needs no change.
Each component has an entry point of its own, and the sample imports from it. The entry point with all the components, smart-industrial/react, puts every component into the bundle, about 2.5 MB minified. Built with Vite, the Faceplate sample has 390 kB of JavaScript, React included, with smart-industrial/react/faceplate.
4 Run the dev server
npm run dev
Vite prints the URL of the application, usually http://localhost:5173/.
TypeScript Support
The types ship with smart-industrial. A type-only import of the component and its props uses import type, which the template's verbatimModuleSyntax requires:
import type { Faceplate, FaceplateProps } from 'smart-industrial/react/faceplate';
Each on* callback receives a CustomEvent whose detail is typed for that event, so the editor lists its fields. A handler typed (event: CustomEvent) => void, as in the sample, accepts it as well.
Accessibility
The keyboard interaction, roles and announcements of the component are on its accessibility page; they are the same in React.