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Meanwhile, web standards seem to rapidly catch up… with native nesting and @layer in CSS and, to name just two great features we’ve won on that front lately, web components getting Declarative Shadow Dom, the Design Token standard rapidly approaching, React finally merging web component compatibility for React 19 it seems, the list goes on.
Already embedded deep into quite a few development workflows (either through the Open API standard, where it is used for model definitions, or something like Postman to build APIs collaboratively) this immediately enables safer, greater and more meaningful interactions between frontend engineers, backend engineers and those working on APIs / microservices. It’s also already in use in some Design System tooling (like Knapsack), or behind the scenes in headless CMS systems.
Implementation: Integrate specialist libraries for specific requirements, like we do with Bedrock Layout Primitives for layout needs in kickstartDS itself
With React (it seems) finally moving to support everything needed (they are the last major framework lagging behind substantially), too, we might be moving to a world post-framework discussions, and real interoperability on a technical level. I think Jake Lazaroff motivates this beautifully with his articles “Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-in” and “The Web Component Success Story”.
And I think “just” Markdown doesn’t quite cut it for safe guidance. For example: directly generating content for your components. But I’m really excited about tooling like outlines appearing, with a greater focus on guided generation for structured data. Because this is often what we actually need!
In another great article of his, “The Design System Ecosystem”, you’d probably recognize it when he talks about the “core design system”. And some frameworks, like Astro, experiment with similar ideas about composition and collaboration, irrespective of specific frameworks, already.