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by ambewas 3012 days ago
I love how ant design invents a new 'design language' and then it turns out to be yet another bootstrap.

I wish we'd get a real revolutionary design system instead of these frameworks that try solve all cases, and ultimately end up so generic you can't use them for anything -other- than prototyping

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Bootstrap doesn't event define a design language.

I'm glad that there's a good UI lib that integrates with React at this level.

Point taken!
Can you elaborate for me? Curious what you'd like to see in respect to a design system...

Side note, this is what I'm looking to solve at https://cleverbeagle.com.

What I would love to see in a design system is something in terms of "white-label" components. I'm talking about components with great UX, but basically no styling applied.

I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is possible, and I'm not sure what it would look like -- but I'd love a framework that just makes everything work really nice - except it doesn't force you to do really quirky css hacks to re-style the thing.

If that makes any sense :)

Agreed. I'm surprised not to have seen this. It reminds me of the "skeleton" wordpress themes from ~10 years ago. You get a view layer that's marked up and connected/connectable, but that has no styles.
Can't you change the style of a Bootstrap layout without changing the functionality? I thought that is the point of all the different "themes" they have.
Ever taken a look at how bootstrap's CSS is written? It's horrible and even worse when you start to try to override certain things :(
Makes perfect sense! Thank you.