shadcn/ui VS zenity

Shadcn/ui: I've never tried it before but have always wanted to switch from MaterialUI

Honestly the ergonomics of heavily customizable generic component libraries aren't great. Copy and pasting a simple component to make the specific customizations you want helps reduce JS ecosystem churn and dependency pain. Popularity of libraries like shadcn/ui [1] are good acknowledgements of that.

[1] https://ui.shadcn.com/

shadcn/ui

This model is very similar to the popular shadcn workflow. After files are creating in your local repo, you can modify them and check them into source control.

Link: https://ui.shadcn.com/

One of my biggest fears as a frontend dev is to build UIs that are inaccessible for people. It's easy to take so many things for granted.

The good news is you get a lot of accessibility out of the box using native html. For higher abstractions I love working with accessibility first libraries like Shadcn (which is built on top of Radix): https://ui.shadcn.com/

For development of the UI components, we tried something new. Vercel has this new AI tool called v0.dev that allows developers to take advantage of shadcn/ui and Tailwind using nothing but words, which can then be easily downloaded to your local project using nothing but a simple npx command.

Shadcn stands out among the many UI frameworks and libraries as a helpful resource for developers looking for an open-source, customizable way to create stunning and useful user interfaces. Shadcn is a tool to help you build your component library. These are components that you can copy and paste into your apps.

I created github.com/ncruces/zenity and I'd welcome ports to either D-Bus Portal or KDialog.

I've used the windows version pretty extensively in github.com/ncruces/zenity to generate this.

You can see it in… “action” in some of my repos: - github.com/ncruces/go-strftime - github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 - github.com/ncruces/zenity

Const errors are totally doable. https://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/07/constant-errors https://github.com/ncruces/zenity/blob/master/internal/zenutil/env.go

If you use a non-native GUI, you can still leverage native dialog windows via https://github.com/ncruces/zenity

To add a calendar dialog to github.com/ncruces/zenity, I needed a strftime implementation in pure Go.

github.com/ncruces/zenity

I've been working on a "port" of it to macOS and Windows, that doesn't require X. It also works on WSL (as well as Cygwin/MSYS2 and Git for Windows). It's on GitHub: github.com/ncruces/zenity.

Started out with just the file and message dialogs, but a lot more of zenity has been wrapped/ported, current status: here.