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Re: Show HN: Helium – a headless, open-source LMS

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chrismorgan wrote: post #6

When you say “headless, open-source LMS”, I assume this is the backend parts. This does not appear to be the case (nor does the actual link target use the word “headless”). https://developer.thoughtindustries.com/build/developer-guid... (that entire site seems to be much more appropriate than the GitHub repository, though I’m not sure where to start): > Helium is a frontend web development framework for building high…

In frontend-speak, "headless" sometimes seems to mean "style it yourself because we didn't". My confusion on this term started a rant/argument thread a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910931

Re: Show HN: Helium – a headless, open-source LMS

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Post by Doxin »

mkl wrote: post #9
cowsandmilk wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://thoughtindustries.github.io/helium/ from the github repo

That seems to be a mock shopping cart, not a demo of a Learning Management System.

There's a menu on the left for more components

Re: Show HN: Helium – a headless, open-source LMS

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Post by tough »

mkl wrote: post #11
chrismorgan wrote: post #6

When you say “headless, open-source LMS”, I assume this is the backend parts. This does not appear to be the case (nor does the actual link target use the word “headless”). https://developer.thoughtindustries.com/build/developer-guid... (that entire site seems to be much more appropriate than the GitHub repository, though I’m not sure where to start): > Helium is a frontend web development framework for building high…

In frontend-speak, "headless" sometimes seems to mean "style it yourself because we didn't". My confusion on this term started a rant/argument thread a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910931

Yep as in headless-ui for react by tailwind devs, or radix being -headless- unstyled components.

So many layers and stacks to keep up with lol

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