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Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Re: Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Post by BruceM »

zdragnar wrote: post #7
tptacek wrote: post #2

So far, I'm aware of Material-UI, Grommet, Bootstrap, and this for React. Are there others worth knowing about? This looks good, though it also feels like it leans towards native controls; see Select vs. Select Menu, for instance. Material and Grommet have a unified style thing going on that this doesn't seem to. But this has more controls and seems more mature.

Ant is quite nice, and is loaded with controls. I've wanted to toy with blueprint, but their desktop-centric focus (which makes sense, given the backing company) steered me away a bit. https://ant.design/ is the main page, https://ant.design/docs/react/introduce for react, and for angular: https://ng.ant.design/docs/introduce/en

They have Ant Mobile! https://mobile.ant.design/

Re: Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Post by chrisparton1991 »

Evergreen looks quite nice, but their website isn't responsive and that gives me pause when considering it for my own projects. The components themselves may work fine, but I can't be sure without digging in further.

Just something to consider if you're looking at using Evergreen.

Re: Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Post by sdegutis »

When I saw this the other day, one of the first things I tried was Ctrl-N/P to navigate its auto-complete lists, but it didn't work, so I sent a pull request with the underlying library Downshift (https://github.com/paypal/downshift/pull/596). I think adding little touches like this helps to show that a library author pays attention to detail. I know that it's only programmers who would use that keyboard shortcut, but that still probably numbers in the tens of thousands of potential users.

Re: Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Post by acemarke »

ianhawes wrote: post #10

This list was posted a few weeks ago, but here is a fairly definitive list of similar UI frameworks: https://element.eleme.io/ https://ant.design/ https://quasar-framework.org/ https://at-ui.github.io/at-ui/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric https://vmware.github.io/clarity/ http://appnexus.github.io/lucid/ https://ng-lightning.github.io/ng-lightning/ https://blueprintjs.com/ http://www.jetbrains.org/ring-…

We've been happy with http://react.semantic-ui.com/ so far.

Re: Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Post by mstijak »

ui-explorer12 wrote: post #20
ianhawes wrote: post #10

This list was posted a few weeks ago, but here is a fairly definitive list of similar UI frameworks: https://element.eleme.io/ https://ant.design/ https://quasar-framework.org/ https://at-ui.github.io/at-ui/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric https://vmware.github.io/clarity/ http://appnexus.github.io/lucid/ https://ng-lightning.github.io/ng-lightning/ https://blueprintjs.com/ http://www.jetbrains.org/ring-…

I looked at many of these for an assessment at my company. We started a little broader with some css-only solutions as well but they tend to only take you so far; the controls are nice. Key aspects for us were (1) React-based, (2) TypeScript support (bonus for native TS), (3) Applicable to data-dense engineering apps, and (4) a broad-based, healthy ecosystem. I also evaluated Semantic-UI React. I really like Blueprin…

Have you looked at CxJS? CxJS offers chart controls and advanced data tables which makes it perfect for building admin apps.

https://cxjs.io/

Re: Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Post by tejasmanohar »

ui-explorer12 wrote: post #18
andreygrehov wrote: post #13

This one is actually quite cool. I like it more than Ant. Given the number of GitHub stars, it looks like the framework has been around for quite a while. Never heard of it. One thing that I like about Ant.Design is that it's written with TypeScript. Wonder why Segment decided to go with JS, given that they position it for Enterprise apps.

Blueprint from Palantir is also a solid framework built on TypeScript. It's desktop-first which is quite different from most

Would you not consider Evergreen desktop-first, too? It doesn't really provide any constructs out-of-the-box for responsiveness AFAICT.

Re: Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Post by [deleted] »

BruceM wrote: post #21
zdragnar wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ant is quite nice, and is loaded with controls. I've wanted to toy with blueprint, but their desktop-centric focus (which makes sense, given the backing company) steered me away a bit. https://ant.design/ is the main page, https://ant.design/docs/react/introduce for react, and for angular: https://ng.ant.design/docs/introduce/en

They have Ant Mobile! https://mobile.ant.design/

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Re: Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

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Post by dmortin »

ianhawes wrote: post #10

This list was posted a few weeks ago, but here is a fairly definitive list of similar UI frameworks: https://element.eleme.io/ https://ant.design/ https://quasar-framework.org/ https://at-ui.github.io/at-ui/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric https://vmware.github.io/clarity/ http://appnexus.github.io/lucid/ https://ng-lightning.github.io/ng-lightning/ https://blueprintjs.com/ http://www.jetbrains.org/ring-…

The question is: how many of these will be maintained several years later? Can you build a long term project on these?

Or the expectation is that one has to make a new UI anyway every several years to keep up with the changing fashion, so rewrites are inevitable?

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