ant-design-vue VS buefy

8. Ant Design Vue Ant Design Vue is the Vue.js implementation of Ant Design, a popular UI library for React. It provides high-quality components and a polished UI experience. Visit the Ant Design Vue website for more details.

Ant Design: A solid option that is been used by a lot of heavy hitters, such as Tencent, Baidu, AliBaba, and more. Supports all modern browsers, SSR, esm, and even Electron. Has also community implementations for Angular, Vue, and more. Does use CSS-in-JS, so expect runtime overhead as well as AntD ways of doing things.

In my experience of building and delivering systems for various clients, depending on their requirements or preferences, it’s inevitable that I may use UI frameworks and libraries like Ant Design and Tailwind. Often, I have to build on top of each components. If you are working alone, it’s not such a big problem. But when working as a team, things get complicated quickly. So, I started looking at different methodologies which can provide development flexibility and system maintainability for the projects I’m leading. I choose Atomic Design methodology and want to share why it works for me.

Ant Design Vue UI Framework

Ant

Ant Design for Vue (16k stars on GitHub) Folks have complained that Ant is bloated, inaccessible, and not performant. That said, Ant also has a ridiculously large components set.

5 - Ant Design Vue

It has over 13k stars on Github and on 39,693 weekly downloads on npm.

I looked into Buefy, which has great and accessible source code btw, and my hunch was correct. See line 184 at this link: https://github.com/buefy/buefy/blob/dev/src/components/carousel/CarouselList.vue

Buefy: A lightweight UI library that provides a range of customizable UI components, including forms, buttons, and navbars.

Back in the day I used Buefy https://buefy.org/ which is a Vue version of Bulma. I like it, I'd say it was easy to implement and I could change the style a bit without too many lines of code.

I'm learning Vue and today noticed something I hadn't seen before, by Buefy component templates, namely hash-prefixed attributes on template tags e.g.

Encountered this issue as we're looking into solutions for migrating a Vue 2 + Buefy codebase over to Vue 3. The maintainer is actively working on Oruga, which for the most part, has a very similar api to Buefy components and is pretty close in terms of component parity. I only found out about Oruga through this pinned issue in the Buefy repo.

That will render any Vue components referenced within the content returned from the API. In my case, it contained Buefy component references e.g.:

I like Bulma and I've used it on most recent projects. It feels lighter and easier to customize than Bootstrap. Buefy is vue components based on Bulma. It's pretty good, but lately I've been using Livewire.

Personally I don't like either. Bootstrap seems too bloated and cookie-cutter, and Tailwind is inline styles and clutter. Lately I've used Bulma (CSS framework) and Buefy (Bulma + Vue) on a couple of projects. I also like the look of Pure CSS, but I haven't used it.

It seems that the good UI frameworks are only available for Vue 2 at present. Bootstrap (Bootstrap-vue), Semantic UI (Semantic UI Vue), Bulma (Buefy), Material (Vuetify) all only support Vue 2.

7 - Buefy