DOM_Maker VS uswds

This is probably the biggest hole in vanilla js. In particular building a large DOM structure requires so many method calls.

jQuery lets one use an innerHTML-ish style, but it is supposedly guarding against injection attacks in some way. I don't like the hand-wavy way it claims to guard against injections, as basically it has no way to tell what part of a string was meant to be text, and what was meant to be elements.

So I ended up coding my own library. No conversion of strings to elements, so naturally no injections. Very small and simple. But saves a ton of typing when generating DOM structures in JavaScript: https://github.com/NoHatCoder/DOM_Maker

Now and then I stumble upon the USWDS (the article mentions it) and am surprised how good that thing actually is.

I would like to note that there currently is no centralized Design System for the Dutch Government, unfortunately. All agencies are creating their own Design System based on the Rijkshuisstijl.

Currently I'm working on ROOS (https://rvo.nl/roos) which is the Design System for the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. This is build with the already mentioned NL Design System. My hope being that this will bring the different agencies together and start working on a centralized Design System for the Dutch Government and follow the excellent examples of https://design-system.service.gov.uk and https://designsystem.digital.gov/

I learnt a lot of Sass patterns from using the US Web Design System.

USWDS: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

FYI I recommend following U.S. gov't standards: https://designsystem.digital.gov/documentation/developers/

Dark/light mode is fine and all, however be wary of accessibility. Note that the US actually even publishes it's own CSS/JS framework similar to bootstrap. I believe (but I am not positive) it is here: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

I don't claim it to be perfect, but the last time I had the opportunity to use it, it put other UI/UX frameworks to shame.