Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by ambewas on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:02AM (#16687122)

I love how ant design invents a new 'design language' and then it turns out to be yet another bootstrap.

I wish we'd get a real revolutionary design system instead of these frameworks that try solve all cases, and ultimately end up so generic you can't use them for anything -other- than prototyping

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Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by kowdermeister on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:02AM (#16688421)

Bootstrap doesn't event define a design language.

I'm glad that there's a good UI lib that integrates with React at this level.

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Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by ambewas on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:47AM (#16689619)

Point taken!

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Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by rglover on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:36AM (#16687662)

Can you elaborate for me? Curious what you'd like to see in respect to a design system...

Side note, this is what I'm looking to solve at https://cleverbeagle.com.

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Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by ambewas on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:47AM (#16689612)

What I would love to see in a design system is something in terms of "white-label" components. I'm talking about components with great UX, but basically no styling applied.

I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is possible, and I'm not sure what it would look like -- but I'd love a framework that just makes everything work really nice - except it doesn't force you to do really quirky css hacks to re-style the thing.

If that makes any sense :)

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Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by RickS on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:07PM (#16690570)

Agreed. I'm surprised not to have seen this. It reminds me of the "skeleton" wordpress themes from ~10 years ago. You get a view layer that's marked up and connected/connectable, but that has no styles.

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Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by projectramo on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:39PM (#16690904)

Can't you change the style of a Bootstrap layout without changing the functionality? I thought that is the point of all the different "themes" they have.

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Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by ambewas on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:12AM (#16696436)

Ever taken a look at how bootstrap's CSS is written? It's horrible and even worse when you start to try to override certain things :(

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Re:Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototyp... by rglover on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:59PM (#16691093)

Makes perfect sense! Thank you.

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