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> has had any ability to tell me where, how often, or even whether a particular component is in use in the production UI
I built a dashboard to display this for the design system I work on at my day job to give product designers better visibility into this, using a library called react-scanner[0] and some logic related to the way our different product repos are structured. there are probably other libraries for this sort of thing in different ecosystems, and you can always build your own with a parser as well.
[0] https://github.com/moroshko/react-scanner
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govuk-design-system
One place for service teams to find styles, components and patterns for designing government services.
The best design system around[0] operates entirely in the open. You can look through the history, discussions, PRs, framework-specific implementations and see why it's geared the way it is - and why it's incredibly successful.
[0] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system
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It depends on the level of contribution.
You can contribute by responding to the discussions in the backlog[0], by improving the actual distributed styles and code[1] or suggesting improvements to the documentation in the link I posted above.
Bigger changes need to be backed up with user research, evidence of user needs and accessibility reviews and checks.
[0] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog
[1] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend
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govuk-frontend
GOV.UK Frontend contains the code you need to start building a user interface for government platforms and services.
It depends on the level of contribution.
You can contribute by responding to the discussions in the backlog[0], by improving the actual distributed styles and code[1] or suggesting improvements to the documentation in the link I posted above.
Bigger changes need to be backed up with user research, evidence of user needs and accessibility reviews and checks.
[0] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog
[1] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend
