Tds Community
TELUS Design System Community Components
Overview
The TELUS Design System (TDS) is a comprehensive platform that includes documentation, guidelines, and design management to communicate the TELUS brand promise through digital experiences. TDS Community is a collaborative platform within the TDS where TELUS designers and developers can discover, share, and consume modules as part of the design system. It offers React components, a component library for designers, and their documentation. TDS Community has a similar technical and branding foundation as TDS Core, but the governance model and maintenance workflow differ.
Features
- Component reusability: TDS Core has high component reusability, while TDS Community has moderate component reusability.
- Rate of change: TDS Core has a low rate of change, whereas TDS Community has a high rate of change.
- Contribution speed: TDS Core has moderate contribution speed, while TDS Community has high contribution speed.
- Review board: TDS Core has the TDS Core Team as the review board, whereas TDS Community has Digital Platform Ambassadors as the review board.
Summary
The TELUS Design System (TDS) is a platform that integrates documentation, guidelines, and design management to communicate the TELUS brand promise through digital experiences. TDS Community is a collaborative platform within the TDS where designers and developers can discover, share, and consume modules. It offers React components and a component library for designers. TDS Community differs from TDS Core in terms of component reusability, rate of change, contribution speed, and review board. To install TDS Community components, follow the provided installation guide.
- 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
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Styled Components
Styled Components is a popular library for styling React components using CSS syntax. It allows you to write CSS in your JavaScript code, making it easier to create dynamic styles that are specific to each component.
- 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.
- Rollup
RollupJS is a popular and efficient JavaScript module bundler that takes the code from multiple modules and packages them into a single optimized file, minimizing the overall size of the application and improving its performance.
- 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.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.