govuk-rfcs
GOV.UK staff use this repository as a forum to discuss and make technical decisions (by alphagov)
govuk-frontend
GOV.UK Frontend contains the code you need to start building a user interface for government platforms and services. (by alphagov)
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| govuk-rfcs | govuk-frontend | |
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| 1 | 17 | |
| 64 | 1,102 | |
| - | 3.4% | |
| 8.3 | 9.9 | |
| 6 days ago | 1 day ago | |
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| - | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
govuk-rfcs
Posts with mentions or reviews of govuk-rfcs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-11.
govuk-frontend
Posts with mentions or reviews of govuk-frontend.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-23.
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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
- O app do Caixa Tem para pegar os R$ 1k do FGTS pede foto de documentos. Mas tira foto na resolução mais alta da câmera e em seguida recusa o arquivo por ser muito grande.
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Gov.uk has removed its dependency on jQuery
They're also looking to reduce support for IE11:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing govuk-rfcs and govuk-frontend you can also consider the following projects:
govuk-aws - Legacy AWS infrastructure for GOV.UK. Gradually being updated and moved to govuk-infrastructure.
dropin-minimal-css - Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks