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Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
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Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#192Your homepage pushed my CPU to 75% and resulted in an early click on the red cross of the tab. (latest chrome stable/osx 10.11) You should do better.
Yes, the 3D logo made me immediately think this library had performance issues.
Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#193Hi all, I work at Palantir and worked on Blueprint (although I'm currently working on a different project). Happy to answer any questions you have about it. Just a note - we didn't intend to heavily publicize the project quite yet. For example, the docs site is still a WIP, so apologies if it causes issues for you on mobile devices.
Hi! I'm not a web developer, I work on server side, native mobile and desktop, but I'm very impressed with your framework and want to give it a try for creating UIs. What I really don't like about web development is it's overcomplicated approach to laying out the elements. Do you have any kind of layout helpers in your framework?
Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#194I see a few comments bringing up mobile. There's already many mobile-friendly UI frameworks; not everything has to be mobile-first. Yes, in many cases it makes sense to go for a mobile-first approach, especially with consumer-facing applications. Mobile is huge and apparently it's still continuing to grow. At the same time, there's many legitimate cases in which you want to optimize for desktop. For example: consider…
For internal projects/webpages (similar to Google Data Studio as mentioned), where you would expect the user to only be using it on a desktop, having no mobile support is fine. But for external projects/webpages in 2016, where atleast 1/3 of usage can come from mobile devices, having a lack of mobile support is a complete, 100% nonstarter. And there are plenty of competing React UI frameworks with mobile support alre…
I'm not sure how you come to this distinction between internal/external. The delineation is much simpler and more obvious. Is Blueprint made for mobile use cases? No. Therefore it's highly optimized for non-mobile use cases. Despite the buzzword focus on mobile applications, there's still plenty of work being done (and left to do!) outside of that. For those uses, Blueprint is great!
This is especially valuable for teams that don't have the design talent necessary to generate something as visually rich and feature complete as Blueprint. But you're right, a mobile framework it is not.
Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not all things are supposed to be mobile. All the products we write are supposed to run on a large display for our case.
I still can't imagine tying yourself to a system that precludes mobile. That seems like a terribly bad idea at this point.
For certain applications, you're right that's an awful idea.
For others, it's an equally bad idea to limit your toolbox based on an irrelevant criterion.
Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#196This is really slick and fresh looking. Almost inspires me to build something with it
You should go for it! It actually feels good to use, which is one of those rarer qualities to come across in these sorts of libraries.
Disclaimer: I'm a designer at Palantir and have been using it for quite a while.
Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#197Great work, it looks very nice! One thing I always find missing from most of these React toolkits is a TreeTable component. This is a component that I often require in business applications, and I suspect other will too. Is this something that you would consider adding in the future?
Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#198Hi all, I work at Palantir and worked on Blueprint (although I'm currently working on a different project). Happy to answer any questions you have about it. Just a note - we didn't intend to heavily publicize the project quite yet. For example, the docs site is still a WIP, so apologies if it causes issues for you on mobile devices.
Hi! I'm not a web developer, I work on server side, native mobile and desktop, but I'm very impressed with your framework and want to give it a try for creating UIs. What I really don't like about web development is it's overcomplicated approach to laying out the elements. Do you have any kind of layout helpers in your framework?
Thanks for the kind words achikin! Blueprint doesn't include anything to simplify layout. However, if you're able to only support relatively modern browsers, flexbox [0] is a great CSS feature that really makes layout easier. If you're looking for something like the traditional CSS library grid, you can always grab it from a different library, like PureCSS [1], and use it side by side with Blueprint.
[0]: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ [1]: http://purecss.io/customize/#individual-modules
Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#199Your homepage pushed my CPU to 75% and resulted in an early click on the red cross of the tab. (latest chrome stable/osx 10.11) You should do better.
Loaded fine on edge..
Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi! I'm not a web developer, I work on server side, native mobile and desktop, but I'm very impressed with your framework and want to give it a try for creating UIs. What I really don't like about web development is it's overcomplicated approach to laying out the elements. Do you have any kind of layout helpers in your framework?
Thanks for the kind words achikin! Blueprint doesn't include anything to simplify layout. However, if you're able to only support relatively modern browsers, flexbox [0] is a great CSS feature that really makes layout easier. If you're looking for something like the traditional CSS library grid, you can always grab it from a different library, like PureCSS [1], and use it side by side with Blueprint. [0]: https://css…
Thank you very much for your help!