govuk-components
govuk-design-system
| govuk-components | govuk-design-system | |
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| 7 | 3 | |
| 140 | 460 | |
| 5.0% | 3.1% | |
| 9.3 | 9.8 | |
| 12 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| Ruby | Nunjucks | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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govuk-components
- Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
- Library of ViewComponents as a gem?
- Does anyone kind of miss simpler webpages?
- Is ViewComponent the Future of Rails?
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Exploring ViewComponent
Gov.uk
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USWDS: The United States Web Design System
I haven't used them myself, but the GOV.UK components look and function great.
https://govuk-components.netlify.app/
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Ruby on Rails: View Components and Storybook and Tailwind, Match Made in Heaven?
Wow that's awesome, I knew GDS had a design system but didn't realise it was written in Ruby.
Quick link for others: https://github.com/DFE-Digital/govuk-components
I'm going to take a look through the repo as I'm sure there's some patterns you've found given you're at a much bigger scale. Any hot tips?
govuk-design-system
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The Design System Ecosystem
The best design system around[0] operates entirely in the open. You can look through the history, discussions, PRs, framework-specific implementations and see why it's geared the way it is - and why it's incredibly successful.
[0] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system
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Does anyone kind of miss simpler webpages?
The GitHub you linked isn’t the central design system. The actual one is here https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system
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Singapore Government Tech Stack
Why reinvent the wheel? A lot of govt websites have very similar use cases. I would e.g. just get The UK Government Design System, which is really good: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system
What are some alternatives?
uswds - The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.
eleventy-about-me - Personal portfolio website template built with Eleventy.
lookbook - A UI development environment for Ruby on Rails apps ✨
bestmotherfucking.website - The Best Motherfucking Website
govuk-frontend - GOV.UK Frontend contains the code you need to start building a user interface for government platforms and services.
info-frontend - Serves /info pages to display user needs and performance data about a page on GOV.UK
govuk-docker - GOV.UK development environment using Docker 🐳
playbook - The Digital Services Playbook
cofree-bot - A library for building bots compositionally.
view_component - A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.