KickstartDS
kickstartDS mono-repository, containing all packages but config related ones and the content component module
Overview
kickstartDS is an Open Source Design System starter and UI toolkit that allows users to build their own Design Systems quickly and efficiently using core web technologies. It aims to democratize Design Systems by providing great components, flexible design application, React templating support, and compatibility with classic backend environments and Jamstack. The toolkit comes with extensive documentation and offers categories like Getting Started, Foundations, Integration, Guides, and Concepts.
Features
- Open Source: kickstartDS is an open-source framework that allows users to create their Design Systems.
- Great components as the baseline: The toolkit provides a library of great components as the starting point for building a Design System.
- Flexible + easy design application: Users can easily apply their design preferences and customize the components to fit their brand.
- First-class React templating support: kickstartDS offers seamless integration with React, making it easy to create React-based components.
- Work with "classic" backend environments: The toolkit is compatible with traditional backend environments, allowing users to leverage their existing infrastructure.
- Jamstack & composable integrations: kickstartDS can be integrated with Jamstack architectures and is designed to be highly composable.
- Extensive documentation: kickstartDS provides comprehensive documentation that covers best practices, component creation, and integrations.
- CLI tool: kickstartDS offers a dedicated CLI tool for faster and error-free execution of everyday tasks like creating and compiling tokens and working with JSON Schema.
- HTML
HTML templates are pre-designed and pre-built web pages that can be customized and used as a basis for building websites. They often include common elements such as headers, footers, menus, and content sections, and can be easily edited using HTML and CSS to fit specific branding and content needs.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- UI Kits & Components
A UI kit provides developers with a set of reusable components that can be easily integrated into a website or application. These components are pre-designed with consistent styling and functionality, allowing developers to save time and effort in the design and development process. UI kits can be either custom-built or third-party, and often include components for buttons, forms, typography, icons, and more.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Storybook
Storybook is a tool for developing and testing UI components in isolation. It provides a sandbox environment where you can experiment with different props and states to see how your component responds.
- Stylelint
Stylelint is a modern linter for CSS that helps you avoid errors and enforce consistent styling conventions. It provides rules for detecting errors and warnings, and can be configured to match your specific project's requirements.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
