uswds VS wp-calypso

Compare uswds vs wp-calypso and see what are their differences.

uswds

The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites. (by uswds)
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uswds wp-calypso
78 6
6,609 12,345
0.3% 0.2%
9.8 10.0
6 days ago 4 days ago
SCSS JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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uswds

Posts with mentions or reviews of uswds. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.

wp-calypso

Posts with mentions or reviews of wp-calypso. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-05.
  • Newbie - 28yo deciding to change careers.
    3 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 5 Feb 2022
    Auttomatic Open Source Docker Open source Those are two i can think of that use those technologies, read the “contribution” part on github. If you search “open source projects” and the technologies you know, you’ll find even more. :)
  • Will Wordpress move away from PHP into React?
    4 projects | /r/Wordpress | 22 Sep 2021
    The wp-admin dash itself will likely move to React in the far future. It's a big undertaking, and not a priority, or even wanted at this point by the wordpress.org maintainers and community - wordpress.com already has a React powered dash that even predates Gutenberg, calypso, and the open-source maintainers rejected using it as its not suitable for their developer audience.
    4 projects | /r/Wordpress | 22 Sep 2021
    The WP dashboard can, and has been rewritten in React, see Calypso, but it was rejected by wp.org community at the time (likely for the reasons you mentioned).
  • Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2021
    > Unless the new Wordpress is written in node, comparing the new “JavaScript” stack with the old “LAMP” stack makes no sense to me. Those technologies do not serve the same purpose.

    It's written in JavaScript; it runs on node.js - at least the front-end part of it (https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso). I don't know what is running on the backend but I don't think it's LAMP.

    The point I was making though is that "WordPress" can mean two different things - wordpress.org (the self-hosted LAMP version) or wordpress.com, which is a SaaS offering (so the language is more or less irrelevant unless you're really interested in running your own admin frontend, I guess).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing uswds and wp-calypso you can also consider the following projects:

Next.js - The React Framework

WordPress - WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.

design-system - Priceline.com Design System

react-uswds - USWDS 3.0 components built in React

poemkit - React toolkit for building a full website that also is a Micro-Frontend Architecture.

33 - 📜 33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know. [Moved to: https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts]

frontity - » Frontity - The React Framework for WordPress

govuk-puppet - Decommissioned: Puppet manifests that used to provision the legacy GOV.UK stack.

Editor-Block-Outline - WordPress Gutenberg editor block outline plugin

playbook - The Digital Services Playbook

redux-undo - :recycle: higher order reducer to add undo/redo functionality to redux state containers

nl-covid19-data-dashboard - The dashboard provides information on the outbreak and prevalence of COVID-19 in The Netherlands