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OpenUI: Open Standard for Generative UI

34 points by handfuloflight 4mo ago

tadfisher 4mo ago
Don't advertise "cross-platform" and list React, React Native and Vue as your platforms. The world is not JavaScript, at least not yet.
- orphea 4mo ago
  Where do you see "cross-platform"? The readme clearly says it's web: OpenUI is a full-stack Generative UI framework: a compact streaming-first language, a React runtime with built-in component libraries [...]
  - gbjcantab 4mo ago
    The link submitted is to the front page of their website, which reads: “Cross-platform - One spec renders natively to React, React Native, Vue, and more.”
    - orphea 4mo ago
      Oh, fair enough.
- rabisg 3mo ago
  The language is platform independent and the parsers and renderers are open source with the intention of letting people fork out into their own language. Would love your support in extending it to other platforms
jph 4mo ago
If you want more open UI, I lead Lily Design System (https://lilydesignsystem.github.io https://lilydesignsystem.github.io) which has hundreds of components for Svelte, React, Vue, Blazor, Nunjuks, and HTML. The focus on semantics helps AI generators, and there are many prebuilt themes, locales, and examples. I'm using Fable right now to improve it. If anyone from OpenUI would like to connect with me to add Lily, please do, joel@joelparkerhenderson.com.
saretup 4mo ago
Sounds like something you come up with when you think of a cool name first and then just make something that fits the name.
trentor 4mo ago
I hate the naming. "Open" is so abused by now that I start to distrust software that needs to explicitly state that they are "Open" because they usually aren't.
- officialchicken 4mo ago
  Sure the term has been enshittified - but this is MIT licensed. I think that helps rebuild the integrity of the phrase "Open Source".
bel8 4mo ago
Looks like a DSL for UI. Interesting. I entered "CRUD for public book library" in their playground (https://www.openui.com/playground https://www.openui.com/playground) and it generated some forms which looks useful: https://i.imgur.com/gd2XzoD.png https://i.imgur.com/gd2XzoD.png I'd have to investigate more about the customizability of it. For example, how hard is it to implement custom form validations? This sort of thing. Also, how many dependencies and layers I would be adding to my project for using it.
- rabisg 3mo ago
  Hey @bel8 Founder of Thesys here - company behind OpenUI. its designed to be very customizable but if you hit a roadblock please open an issue on GH and we'd be happy to patch it
Keithamus 4mo ago
It’s unfortunate that this name was used. There is a W3C community group called OpenUI (https://open-ui.org/ https://open-ui.org/) which has been around for close to a decade, working on improving UI standards for the web.
padolsey 4mo ago
Rendered div soup with pictures of data isn't a web standard and shouldn't be professing to be built for a11y.
brian_love 4mo ago
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Don't advertise "cross-platform" and list React, React Native and Vue as your platforms. The world is not JavaScript, at least not yet.

orphea 4mo ago
Where do you see "cross-platform"? The readme clearly says it's web: OpenUI is a full-stack Generative UI framework: a compact streaming-first language, a React runtime with built-in component libraries [...]
- gbjcantab 4mo ago
  The link submitted is to the front page of their website, which reads: “Cross-platform - One spec renders natively to React, React Native, Vue, and more.”
  - orphea 4mo ago
    Oh, fair enough.
rabisg 3mo ago
The language is platform independent and the parsers and renderers are open source with the intention of letting people fork out into their own language. Would love your support in extending it to other platforms

jph 4mo ago

If you want more open UI, I lead Lily Design System (https://lilydesignsystem.github.io https://lilydesignsystem.github.io) which has hundreds of components for Svelte, React, Vue, Blazor, Nunjuks, and HTML. The focus on semantics helps AI generators, and there are many prebuilt themes, locales, and examples. I'm using Fable right now to improve it. If anyone from OpenUI would like to connect with me to add Lily, please do, joel@joelparkerhenderson.com.

saretup 4mo ago

Sounds like something you come up with when you think of a cool name first and then just make something that fits the name.

trentor 4mo ago

I hate the naming. "Open" is so abused by now that I start to distrust software that needs to explicitly state that they are "Open" because they usually aren't.

officialchicken 4mo ago
Sure the term has been enshittified - but this is MIT licensed. I think that helps rebuild the integrity of the phrase "Open Source".

bel8 4mo ago

Looks like a DSL for UI. Interesting. I entered "CRUD for public book library" in their playground (https://www.openui.com/playground https://www.openui.com/playground) and it generated some forms which looks useful: https://i.imgur.com/gd2XzoD.png https://i.imgur.com/gd2XzoD.png I'd have to investigate more about the customizability of it. For example, how hard is it to implement custom form validations? This sort of thing. Also, how many dependencies and layers I would be adding to my project for using it.

rabisg 3mo ago
Hey @bel8 Founder of Thesys here - company behind OpenUI. its designed to be very customizable but if you hit a roadblock please open an issue on GH and we'd be happy to patch it

Keithamus 4mo ago

It’s unfortunate that this name was used. There is a W3C community group called OpenUI (https://open-ui.org/ https://open-ui.org/) which has been around for close to a decade, working on improving UI standards for the web.

padolsey 4mo ago

Rendered div soup with pictures of data isn't a web standard and shouldn't be professing to be built for a11y.

brian_love 4mo ago

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