materialdesignweb VS Flutter

I wanted something that didn't require recompilation and allows me to extend built components. Like an Chip extends a Button. I needed something that allows modification of its HTML template and layering of CSS styles on top of an extended element's styles. Frameworks are pretty rigid in this regard and I wanted to write less code to make a smaller final deployment, instead of copy pasting or having to write complicated mixins and abstractions.

My phone is basically grayscale expect for really minor blue hue. I'm not sure why, and I know how the Material You theming works (built a framework around it).

For the curious: Test page - Source Code

Source: https://github.com/clshortfuse/materialdesignweb/tree/archive-md2/components

If you're tired of it, I've been maintaining my MD framework for more than 4 and a half years since 2018. And before that I was working with Google on the AngularJS implementation in 2015. So I've been looking at and working on the same styles for over 7 years.

Here is the JS for one of the components. Only Chrome natively understands it right now. The alternative is to use a element referencing the CSS, but will call FOUC on the first fetch.

Code

[3]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/master/packages/flut...

Thanks - that link does not appear to be open access, anyways I don't think I've seen it. I'm familiar with Flutter at a high-level (Kevin Moore gave a great talk on it at Wasm I/O), and I think other than requiring users to work in Dart, it is probably one of the most powerful ways to do cross-platform UI today.

Worth noting that their original GPU backend was Skia, and now they are retooling around Flutter GPU (Impeller)[0], which is kind of designed similarly as an abstract rendering interface over platform-specific GPU APIs.

[0]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-GPU

If you are considering Electron/React then I would suggest adding Flutter to your list of technologies to consider. It uses Dart (a language similar to C#) and has a lot going for it… relatively quick to get up to speed with, fantastic developer experience (e.g., hot reload, great IDE support, good development tools) and very strong cross-platform support: it generates native iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and Linux executables. Check it out: https://flutter.dev/

You can find the React Native documentation here and Flutter Documentation here.

[1]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/55092#issuecomment...

> There is actually a great issue thread on the Flutter GitHub that explains exactly why other solutions do not work correctly when compared to hooks [0]

Interesting. I assume you are referring to this comment in particular -> https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/51752#issuecomment... ?