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I wouldn't trust a UI framework where all of the components are shown as images instead of instances of the actual UI framework...

tkzed49 8mo ago
I clicked on Dropdown, thinking it's one of the more complex things to implement. It doesn't even have a picture.
- deepfriedrice 8mo ago
  I did the same with Select. No picture and the API doesn't make sense. The options are specified twice. https://www.chainlift.io/components/select https://www.chainlift.io/components/select
  - Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
    Yeah it's a huge problem. Not accessible either. Idk what I was thinking. The next release will use radix primitives.
    - tkzed49 8mo ago
      Hey man, if you ever see this, not your fault it ended up on HN early! I'm sure this is solid for your usecase. That's just something that would dissuade me from choosing it!
    - nickradford 8mo ago
      Hey! I didn't realize this wasn't even posted by the creator of the library. Building shit and launching is hard, don't let it dissuade you from putting stuff out there though! Also, check out base-ui. Radix is fine, but base ui has generally better primitives and is being actively developed
MomsAVoxell 8mo ago
Yes, I too felt that way as I began to read, it was an immediate disappointment, kind of, that the UI wasn’t on full display, front and center. I wouldn’t trust a framework that requires me to involve myself with JavaScript, nextJS, and React, also… but I am generally of the opinion that a framework pitching itself as a UI kit, must pretty much not be a plugin for a web browser…
- Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
  Yeah the docs are like that because I didn't know React well enough to make my own docs and so I stuck with Webflow and realized very quickly I'd made a huge mistake. But I needed to get something out there to buy time while I figure out how to make grownup docs.
slillibri 8mo ago
There is that, but I get the impression that you could hire an expert to help.
- Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
  yeah it's hella pushy about that isn't it? really need to tone it down
digiown 8mo ago
And one that drops frames when I scroll through on Firefox.
- Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
  lord, really? which one?
cchance 8mo ago
If they showed the actual css, people could just ... copy it, and then how could they charge for the secret golden ratio code lol
- Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
  The CSS is in the github repo here: https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit LiftKit's free forever to anyone. It's just early stages and bad. The idea was that if a company wanted to hire us for direct support, we'd do that. But the problems are: [A] no enterprise in their right minds would use this thing in its current state and [B] "us" is me and I don't have time to do that anymore

tkzed49 8mo ago

I clicked on Dropdown, thinking it's one of the more complex things to implement. It doesn't even have a picture.

deepfriedrice 8mo ago
I did the same with Select. No picture and the API doesn't make sense. The options are specified twice. https://www.chainlift.io/components/select https://www.chainlift.io/components/select
- Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
  Yeah it's a huge problem. Not accessible either. Idk what I was thinking. The next release will use radix primitives.
  - tkzed49 8mo ago
    Hey man, if you ever see this, not your fault it ended up on HN early! I'm sure this is solid for your usecase. That's just something that would dissuade me from choosing it!
  - nickradford 8mo ago
    Hey! I didn't realize this wasn't even posted by the creator of the library. Building shit and launching is hard, don't let it dissuade you from putting stuff out there though! Also, check out base-ui. Radix is fine, but base ui has generally better primitives and is being actively developed

MomsAVoxell 8mo ago

Yes, I too felt that way as I began to read, it was an immediate disappointment, kind of, that the UI wasn’t on full display, front and center. I wouldn’t trust a framework that requires me to involve myself with JavaScript, nextJS, and React, also… but I am generally of the opinion that a framework pitching itself as a UI kit, must pretty much not be a plugin for a web browser…

Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
Yeah the docs are like that because I didn't know React well enough to make my own docs and so I stuck with Webflow and realized very quickly I'd made a huge mistake. But I needed to get something out there to buy time while I figure out how to make grownup docs.

slillibri 8mo ago

There is that, but I get the impression that you could hire an expert to help.

Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
yeah it's hella pushy about that isn't it? really need to tone it down

digiown 8mo ago

And one that drops frames when I scroll through on Firefox.

Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
lord, really? which one?

cchance 8mo ago

If they showed the actual css, people could just ... copy it, and then how could they charge for the secret golden ratio code lol

Garrett_Mack 8mo ago
The CSS is in the github repo here: https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit LiftKit's free forever to anyone. It's just early stages and bad. The idea was that if a company wanted to hire us for direct support, we'd do that. But the problems are: [A] no enterprise in their right minds would use this thing in its current state and [B] "us" is me and I don't have time to do that anymore