govuk-frontend
govuk-design-system


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govuk-frontend
- Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
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Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System
Haha, hi AL!
Yeah the target for this definitely isn't the regular transactional GOV.UK services. I've added a note at the top of the installation guide:
> GOV.UK Vue (or any JavaScript library) might not be suitable for your project if it's a standard transactional government service. Make sure you read the guidance on progressive enhancement and building more complex services before starting. GOV.UK Vue is designed to be used in more complex services, like interactive mapping, or internal tools where you've determined that JavaScript is acceptable.
GDS are also currently doing exploratory work to investigate how Frontend can be more closely integrated with React/Vue/Svelte/Angular etc, so it's definitely not verboten: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/issues/5172
SSR/SSG is supported (the docs website is an SSG Nuxt app) but I need to do some work to improve how it works for certain components to ensure the state they're first rendered in is usable on its own (eg defaulting accordion components to open on the server-rendered version)
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The Design System Ecosystem
It depends on the level of contribution.
You can contribute by responding to the discussions in the backlog[0], by improving the actual distributed styles and code[1] or suggesting improvements to the documentation in the link I posted above.
Bigger changes need to be backed up with user research, evidence of user needs and accessibility reviews and checks.
[0] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog
[1] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend
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Can we at least modernize visually hidden?
However looking at the samples with modern browsers I was unable to see the overflow issue. So it might now be entirely possible that setting negative margin is not required anymore. And it happens to actually be harmful: negative margin can change the reading order in VoiceOver!
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Daily Megathread - 04/03/2023
It's quite literally open source, with a permissive license. It's often more than just inspiration, it's the literal code.
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Let's talk about the truth
Check it out: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ and: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend (MIT license)
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What’s that one thing that makes you feel proud about the U.K. or being British?
For those who may be interested, the front end is actually open sourced for third parties to use.
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The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
To that end, we're still in the process of dropping support for IE 8–10, along with reducing IE 11 to 'functional'—it doesn't always look the same, but users can still complete tasks.
- Εβδομαδιαία συζήτηση του /r/greece | Weekly /r/greece discussion thread 08/08/2022
- How and why we removed jQuery from Gov.uk
govuk-design-system
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Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
There's some examples (and a pretty sad graph on _when_ users are looking at these resources) on the user research summary: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system/discussions/...
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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?
dsfr - 🇫🇷 Official french government's design system (Système de Design de l'État)
govuk-components - Lightweight Ruby on Rails components for developing with the GOV.UK Design System.
Orange-Boosted-Bootstrap - Orange Boosted is an accessible, ergonomic and Orange branded framework based on Bootstrap
bestmotherfucking.website - The Best Motherfucking Website
govuk-infrastructure - Terraform turnup automation for the EKS Kubernetes clusters that host GOV.UK. See https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-helm-charts for application config.
playbook - The Digital Services Playbook
gatsby-starter-mate - An accessible and fast portfolio starter for Gatsby integrated with Contentful CMS
eleventy-about-me - Personal portfolio website template built with Eleventy.
dropin-minimal-css - Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks
react-scanner - Extract React components and props usage from code.
govuk-design-system-backlog - GOV.UK Design System Community Backlog

