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by danabramov 2730 days ago
That's exactly how some of the newer libraries in React ecosystem work btw. For example, Downshift is that "DYI Autocomplete" — it handles a11y and mechanics but you can compose any kind of behavior and styling out of its primitives.

https://github.com/paypal/downshift

I'm glad to see this trend.
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dandellion 2729 days ago
> a11y

I had to look that one up. I find it amusingly ironic that an accessibility initiative uses an abbreviation that renders the name incomprehensible.

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strokirk 2728 days ago
It's certainly ironic, but most places I've been to pronounces it like the word "ally". At least it's easier than the even more obscure "i18n" and "l10n" for "internationalization" and "localization".
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pdrummond 2730 days ago
I've used Downshift before and while I like the idea, what I am suggesting is broader in scope. A set of primitives such as Overlay, Rectangle, Circle, List, Row, Column, etc that still allow you to apply styling but overall they sit at a lower level of abstraction than ready-made components, even ones based on something like Downshift.

The more I think about this the more I feel like I'm describing exactly how "Qt Quick"[1] works, the declarative user interface markup language that is part of the Qt Framework. Of course, it's not a web technology but it would be interesting to see a web-based framework/lib based around some (if not all) of the ideas found in QML.

[1] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-tutorial1.html

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simplify 2730 days ago
It sounds like you're describing flutter. But that's not quite a web technology either.
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