Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

Re:Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment by anyzen on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:59AM (#18236766)

These frameworks are inevitably much more generic than any in-house solution. On one side this is great, because it means that the abstractions need to be sensible - but it also means there is much more code to maintain. So yes, sometimes maintaining your own solution will be easier than maintaining an abandoned opensource solution. Of course, even better would be to use a solution which will not be abandoned.

Also note that these frameworks lock you into design & feel of their choice. This might work for some use cases and for now, but when the requirements change you often end up fighting the framework. I don't have a solution to that though. :)

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Re:Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment by jameslk on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:16AM (#18236848)

> So yes, sometimes maintaining your own solution will be easier than maintaining an abandoned opensource solution.

I'd argue this depends on your needs. If you're using one of these for your consumer-facing product, perhaps so. Otherwise, if your UI is not what you're selling or your product/team is big enough to end up creating one of these from scratch anyway, then no. In the latter case, that's probably why there's so many of these to begin with.

> Also note that these frameworks lock you into design & feel of their choice.

Some of these frameworks actually let you re-theme them. For example, Ant Design can mostly be re-themed.

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