As someone just starting out with the JS ecosystem, how does this compare to something like SurveyJs?
Love SurveyJS. It's often overlooked - but a really solid choice!
Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine
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Re: Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine
#52This looks very much like many slopped up UIs I've seen over the past few years. Not saying the code is, but the design itself looks vibe coded?
Well, If we have learned something from this post today is that we are terrible designers web designers :)
We take this as actually great feedback, as we are indeed not good at all at web design, so we will try to improve it using all the feedback in this thread.
That being said, you can bet we have pour our souls on the library code for this project.
You can easily see this by looking at our commits.
https://github.com/golemui/golemui/commits/main/?since=2025-...
Note the date! 2025-09-01, that is the date of our first commit, 1962 commits later we published v1.0
So you can see that the actual code for the library has been build very carefully, I think if you give it a go at our (not so great) website, and you actually see the features, that will impress you
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#53This looks very much like many slopped up UIs I've seen over the past few years. Not saying the code is, but the design itself looks vibe coded?
I too am immediately fatigued by the insta-landing pages people pump out. react-create-app or whatever. no thought whatsoever because "design is a solved problem".
pause for sighing.
Ok that said, I mean it makes sense, people aren't good at all things, and getting a project to the finish line is laudable. Let's not flippantly dismiss the project because it uses trendy purple.
For what it's worth, I would absolutely dismiss a project if the text content was entirely AI. But the design, well, I'm confident 90% launched projects use some JS SPA template thing. It's the state of the industry.
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#54How much of this is vibe coded? The widget demos about halfway down seem half-baked; the currency input allows letters and letter inputs visually disappear when you unfocus it. The calendar input appears to select the day before the one I clicked. The markdown editor places hashes after the text on the current line rather than making the current line a header. The dropdown search doesn't seem to work (typing "R" shows React and AngulaR, but typing "Re" doesn't show any options).
All of those are fixable of course, and the idea is neat! It's just a bit of a rough showcase, at least on Firefox.
Re: Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't judge a book by its cover. In this case, a library by its website.
You should absolutely do that! If a library can't even be arsed to present itself in a reasonable way, how can you possibly trust it to do real work well? And to be clear, I have a public website created (and designed) by Claude. But the key difference is that I used my brain, and iterated with Claude to make the style not look like AI slop. Like anything with AI, you can't just fire off a prompt and expect a good an…
Because the two sets of skills aren't related. Library and design work are not the same thing. That's why
Re: Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine
#56no direct support for svelte is a major turn off
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#57Wonder why some technical decisions were made. E.g. i can make a dynamic form builder with Zod in ~1 week without AI. Why not do that? Why a custom engine?
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#59How much of this is vibe coded? The widget demos about halfway down seem half-baked; the currency input allows letters and letter inputs visually disappear when you unfocus it. The calendar input appears to select the day before the one I clicked. The markdown editor places hashes after the text on the current line rather than making the current line a header. The dropdown search doesn't seem to work (typing "R" show…
Let me paraphrase a previous reply:
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You can see our first commit here
https://github.com/golemui/golemui/commits/main/?since=2025-...
Note the date! 2025-09-01, that is the date of our first commit, 1962 commits later we published v1.0
So you can see this has been well thought
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So the answer to how much has the library code vibe code is none of it...
That said, this is not an excuse for those bugs! We are already working on the fixes, many thanks for raising this!
Re: Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine
#60How much of this is vibe coded? The widget demos about halfway down seem half-baked; the currency input allows letters and letter inputs visually disappear when you unfocus it. The calendar input appears to select the day before the one I clicked. The markdown editor places hashes after the text on the current line rather than making the current line a header. The dropdown search doesn't seem to work (typing "R" show…
Let me paraphrase a previous reply: ___ You can see our first commit here https://github.com/golemui/golemui/commits/main/?since=2025- ... Note the date! 2025-09-01, that is the date of our first commit, 1962 commits later we published v1.0 So you can see this has been well thought ___ So the answer to how much has the library code vibe code is none of it... That said, this is not an excuse for those bugs! We are alr…
That's impressive! A quick glance shows me there's a commit that added almost 2500 lines of code.
https://github.com/golemui/golemui/commit/861b182556fab44d1c...
But that doesn't mean vibe-coded. Just hints at LLM assistance which, imo, is fine.