[jasonkillian]

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.

[literallycancer]

Just a nitpick, but when looking at the docs, I can't move with Page Up/Page Down unless I click in the "content column/area", kind of annoying when one navigates using the left bar and then can't move around (on no-mouse setups, e.g. trackpoint + keyboard). So you might want to look at that.

Otherwise no issues (older laptop i5/chrome), so I guess you guys mostly fixed that by now.

[jasonkillian]

Good catch, we'll take a look at this. I've filed an issue to track it [0].

[0]: https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/issues/122

[patzal]

hi,

I really like blueprint! Although I think it's a bit ambiguous in the documentation that there are some elements under 'components' which are not react componentsp per se. You are referring to this as they have a 'CSS API' (like navbar). It' not a big deal but if you are doing a react app it's good to have an overview of the actual building blocks. Maybe they should be under another section?

[achikin]

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?

[jasonkillian]

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

[achikin]

Thank you very much for your help!

[stpe]

This might be a little bit outside Blueprint, but, I cannot not take the opportunity to ask - how is the reactions internally at Palantir now when the chairman and co-founder now also is part of the Trump transition team?