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Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Post by rglover »

ambewas wrote: post #35
rglover wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate for me? Curious what you'd like to see in respect to a design system... Side note, this is what I'm looking to solve at https://cleverbeagle.com .

What I would love to see in a design system is something in terms of "white-label" components. I'm talking about components with great UX, but basically no styling applied. I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is possible, and I'm not sure what it would look like -- but I'd love a framework that just makes everything work really nice - except it doesn't force you to do really quirky css hacks to re-style the thing.…

Makes perfect sense! Thank you.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Post by [deleted] »

bbaumgar wrote: post #17
viggity wrote: post #14

from the ant front page: "A design system with values of Nature and Determinacy for better user experience of enterprise applications" This looks like someone spent a ton of time building something that is probably very useful. So, with all due respect, what the fuck does that even mean?

This is alibaba's react component framework. It's extremely high quality, but unfortunately most the english is translated from Chinese, so awkward grammar is abound. I suggest looking past that.

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Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Post by iandanforth »

EastSmith wrote: post #4
iandanforth wrote: post #3

In this mix I'd swap in Rekit ( http://rekit.js.org/ ) instead of plain create-react-app as it adds Redux with lots of timesaving functionality built into an included editor.

Can I eject rekit at some point? Can I use VS Code before ejecting?

The newest version is built on top of create-react-app so yes you can eject, I haven't done so though. You can use whatever editor you like, but you won't get the automated features like "Create Component" setting up your js, css, tests, and routes automatically. I expect this will be the biggest stumbling block for most devs. I may be unusual that the transition from sublime to the web based editor was very smooth and didn't slow me down.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Post by ambewas »

projectramo wrote: post #39
ambewas wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I would love to see in a design system is something in terms of "white-label" components. I'm talking about components with great UX, but basically no styling applied. I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is possible, and I'm not sure what it would look like -- but I'd love a framework that just makes everything work really nice - except it doesn't force you to do really quirky css hacks to re-style the thing.…

Can't you change the style of a Bootstrap layout without changing the functionality? I thought that is the point of all the different "themes" they have.

Ever taken a look at how bootstrap's CSS is written? It's horrible and even worse when you start to try to override certain things :(

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Post by gschier »

ravenstine wrote: post #34
realPubkey wrote: post #24

There is also a way to use a reactive database without having to trust google by using couchdb+rxdb.

I'm constantly shocked by how few people know about CouchDB or PouchDB. Both are amazing projects that integrate perfectly.

I thought about this a while ago but gave up because there weren't any good CouchDB hosting providers. I don't want to host a DB myself these days.

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Post by gschier »

tootie wrote: post #12

"Firebase’s core product is a real-time database service. This means that your users do not need to refresh a page to see updates to the state of the application and it" "Once you have your Firebase project, provision a “Cloud Firestore” database" Cloud Firestore is a traditional NoSQL DB and is not the realtime database product.

It seems like Firestore is meant to replace their old realtime DB eventually. They have a good comparison page on them:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/rtdb-vs-firestore

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Post by gschier »

ConfusedDog wrote: post #10

Initial look at the Ant Design, all of the images in the documentation are broken, so is the ng.ant.design URL. That's not inspiring any confidence in their ability guiding web application development...

Maybe they're being blocked for some reason? Everything looks good for me (in Canada)

Re: Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

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Post by [deleted] »

ambewas wrote: post #35
rglover wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate for me? Curious what you'd like to see in respect to a design system... Side note, this is what I'm looking to solve at https://cleverbeagle.com .

What I would love to see in a design system is something in terms of "white-label" components. I'm talking about components with great UX, but basically no styling applied. I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is possible, and I'm not sure what it would look like -- but I'd love a framework that just makes everything work really nice - except it doesn't force you to do really quirky css hacks to re-style the thing.…

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