Clarity Design System for Angular 2 • Hacker News Board

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by jaffoneh » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 9:04 AM UTC

merb wrote: post #10

jaffoneh wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I lead the Clarity team. Would love to get your opinion and feedback! Clarity is fully open source (we open sourced it this morning). Our repo is here: https://github.com/vmware/clarity . You can also take a look at the Clarity Seed for a quick way to start building Clarity-based applications: https://github.com/vmware/clarity-seed

Even if you are VMWare with thousands of developers, do you really think that you can keep up with the speed of development from Angular?

Hi merb, could you elaborate a little more on why you think it is a challenge to keep up with the speed of development from Angular?

I am not sure if there is confusion here but those components are built on top of Angular 2. We use and love Angular 2. In fact, we talk and work with the Angular team and both Angular and Clarity are open source projects. We contributed and would like to continue to contribute back to Angular as well!

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by jbigelow76 » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 9:19 AM UTC

This is a very nice looking set of controls with a lot of functionality. Thank you to the Clarity team for the contribution to the community. I've got a project in the works that has been screaming for something other than vanilla bootstrap :)

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by jaffoneh » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 9:22 AM UTC

jbigelow76 wrote: post #12

This is a very nice looking set of controls with a lot of functionality. Thank you to the Clarity team for the contribution to the community. I've got a project in the works that has been screaming for something other than vanilla bootstrap :)

Thanks! Please let us know if we can help in anyway and if you have the time, we'd love to listen to feedback on both: the design system itself as well as the tools you used to use it. As a quick note, we've also open sourced Clarity-seed alongside Clarity to make it easier to get apps up and running on Clarity: https://github.com/vmware/clarity-seed so that might be worth a look too!

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by g_mulholland » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 9:33 AM UTC

Looks very nice. I am super keen to look at this for a project I am about to kick off.

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by wiradikusuma » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 12:15 PM UTC

jaffoneh wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I lead the Clarity team. Would love to get your opinion and feedback! Clarity is fully open source (we open sourced it this morning). Our repo is here: https://github.com/vmware/clarity . You can also take a look at the Clarity Seed for a quick way to start building Clarity-based applications: https://github.com/vmware/clarity-seed

Is it safe to say Clarity is for Angular 2 as what Blueprint (http://blueprintjs.com/) is for ReactJS?

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by Mokwa » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 1:23 PM UTC

I'm not able to use it with angular-cli, could you enhance your instalation steps for the current angular-cli?

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by scwoodal » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 1:43 PM UTC

jaffoneh wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I lead the Clarity team. Would love to get your opinion and feedback! Clarity is fully open source (we open sourced it this morning). Our repo is here: https://github.com/vmware/clarity . You can also take a look at the Clarity Seed for a quick way to start building Clarity-based applications: https://github.com/vmware/clarity-seed

Can you speak about the long term VMware strategy of this project regarding on-going development? Part of my team's decision making process to use open source projects like this (nice work btw) is to get a feel if the primary contributors are in it for the long haul.

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by methyl » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:26 PM UTC

Looks good, but comparing to other systems like this one but for React, it looks it's relying on plain HTML structure to compose layouts vs. using components system to generate and encapsulate HTML. From what I know Angular 2 supports components so I wonder why is this not leveraged here?

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by water42 » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

Hi Clarity team,

What would you say the primary motivation in switching from material2 or ng2-bootstrap to clarity would be? At my work we have an Angular 2 app still in development and have been rather dissatisfied with the available component libraries so far. We're at a point where it wouldn't be unreasonable to switch UI frameworks.

Additionally it looks like you have only implemented some of the material design spec. What was the reason for this / why not go full material?

Re: Clarity Design System for Angular 2

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Post by jaffoneh » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:44 PM UTC

wiradikusuma wrote: post #15

jaffoneh wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I lead the Clarity team. Would love to get your opinion and feedback! Clarity is fully open source (we open sourced it this morning). Our repo is here: https://github.com/vmware/clarity . You can also take a look at the Clarity Seed for a quick way to start building Clarity-based applications: https://github.com/vmware/clarity-seed

Is it safe to say Clarity is for Angular 2 as what Blueprint ( http://blueprintjs.com/ ) is for ReactJS?

Hi wiradikusuma, for now maybe but when building Clarity we considered a future where we can have ClarityNG/ClarityReact/etc. However, for now, we're focusing most of our energy on ClarityNG to make sure we can deliver the next set of components to complete the library.