Orbit – open-source design system

Re:Orbit – open-source design system by thdxr on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @09:53AM (#27832998)

I've been doing a lot of research into design systems and one thing that's lacking in most of these documentation sites is examples build with the component library. It's hard for me to get a feel for it without being able to click through a real application.

Also, paid managed services on the backend are super common. I want a paid frontend component library. There are very few of these and I think there's room for an all star frontend team to sell professionally maintained, always improving components. Even on day 1 of my company I'd be willing to pay $100s a month for this

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Re:Orbit – open-source design system by robertlagrant on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @09:57AM (#27833041)

There are a few such as Tailwind UI that are paid-for component libraries. https://tailwindui.com

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Re:Orbit – open-source design system by thdxr on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:43PM (#27848471)

I've been a subscriber to TailwindUI since it launched. Unfortunately it's not well suited for complex B2B SaaS products that have high information density UIs

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Re:Orbit – open-source design system by radley on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:00PM (#27837710)

> one thing that's lacking in most of these documentation sites is examples build with the component library

Check out their main site kiwi.com for examples.

This is part of a trend with enterprise design teams of open-sourcing their design systems. In some cases, there are direct benefits to clients and partners. Otherwise, it's a status project / time-filler.

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Re:Orbit – open-source design system by arcturus17 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:17PM (#27837174)

Many companies do that for enterprise components, especially graphs and tables.

For more general use I guess it’s hard to compete with the likes of Material UI.

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