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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

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post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what happens when you only test your web app in super fast internet on a maxed out MacBook using Chrome.

I'm running a core i5 @4 ghz + 16 gb of ram and it's till slughish as hell on FF.

You guys should upgrade to Chrome.

Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web

#74

Documentation is unusable on mobile... I hope that was due to someone making some CSS mistakes with their page code and not the framework's code.

The framework, while polished, lacks any responsive grid components. A bit of a glaring omission imho, in this age of Bootstrap and Semantic-UI giving you a responsive grid out of the box.

Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web

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Hi 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.

Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web

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post #54

Not to sound like a bummer here, but I'm not sure what kind of computer is needed to open this webpage. Simply scrolling up and down that website causes my computer to almost freeze. Firefox 49.0 user here. I would profile it, but I'm afraid of having to restart the computer as a result. Edit: It looks amazing. (Still the performance issue is reproducible easily)

There's an interactive animation in the header that really makes the page lag a lot when scrolling, spiking the GPU (look at the devtools, also scrolling is being tracked somehow)

This is a common problem with landing pages that promote things. Developers should pay more attention to optimizing the main page that promotes the libraries in question, as it can turn down potential customers ;)

I was looking at the other pages from this UI framework (docs), and they're not as near as heavy as the main page, so why not pay more attention and make the landing page lighter.

Other than that the components look very refined and worth taking a look.

Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web

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post #54

Not to sound like a bummer here, but I'm not sure what kind of computer is needed to open this webpage. Simply scrolling up and down that website causes my computer to almost freeze. Firefox 49.0 user here. I would profile it, but I'm afraid of having to restart the computer as a result. Edit: It looks amazing. (Still the performance issue is reproducible easily)

This is what happens when you only test your web app in super fast internet on a maxed out MacBook using Chrome.

2016 and igpu performance is still bad compared to dedicated. With browser rendering supporting GPU accel these days, I'd still never spend money on a computer without dedicated graphics, even for productivity.

Re: Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web

#80
post #35

This looks really nice. However, what I really want for React is a style-agnostic component library that basically extends the regular set of HTML elements, but comes with no "visual" styling (other than really basic styling like the browser's default styling for , and the like). Only styling that is necessary for the component to function should be included. Of course, optional themes would be fine. Also, non-visual…

Well, you could use something like Reactstrap (https://reactstrap.github.io) which assumes Bootstrap classes, and simply not include the BS4 visual styles/themes
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