info-frontend
Serves /info pages to display user needs and performance data about a page on GOV.UK (by alphagov)
govuk-components
Lightweight Ruby on Rails components for developing with the GOV.UK Design System. (by x-govuk)
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| info-frontend | govuk-components | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | |
| 7 | 140 | |
| - | 28.1% | |
| 8.9 | 9.3 | |
| about 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | 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.
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.
info-frontend
Posts with mentions or reviews of info-frontend.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-04.
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UK .gov site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement
A while back, I worked on the code https://github.com/alphagov/info-frontend
govuk-components
Posts with mentions or reviews of govuk-components.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-03.
- 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?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing info-frontend and govuk-components you can also consider the following projects:
govuk-puppet - Decommissioned: Puppet manifests that used to provision the legacy GOV.UK stack.
uswds - The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.