uswds VS react-uswds

Now and then I stumble upon the USWDS (the article mentions it) and am surprised how good that thing actually is.

I would like to note that there currently is no centralized Design System for the Dutch Government, unfortunately. All agencies are creating their own Design System based on the Rijkshuisstijl.

Currently I'm working on ROOS (https://rvo.nl/roos) which is the Design System for the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. This is build with the already mentioned NL Design System. My hope being that this will bring the different agencies together and start working on a centralized Design System for the Dutch Government and follow the excellent examples of https://design-system.service.gov.uk and https://designsystem.digital.gov/

I learnt a lot of Sass patterns from using the US Web Design System.

USWDS: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

FYI I recommend following U.S. gov't standards: https://designsystem.digital.gov/documentation/developers/

Dark/light mode is fine and all, however be wary of accessibility. Note that the US actually even publishes it's own CSS/JS framework similar to bootstrap. I believe (but I am not positive) it is here: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

I don't claim it to be perfect, but the last time I had the opportunity to use it, it put other UI/UX frameworks to shame.

I somehow stumbled across this over the weekend.

There's a React component library (with a deployed storybook):

* https://github.com/trussworks/react-uswds

* https://trussworks.github.io/react-uswds/?path=/story/compon...

If you’re and engineer and you’re wanting to just dip your toes in or have something to do between interviews, look for open source government projects to contribute to (e.g. https://github.com/uswds/uswds or https://github.com/trussworks/react-uswds). These can be a great way to see what various organizations are contributing to the civic tech space and to see their development philosophy and style.