Tag: About kickstartDS

Unlocking the frontend – a call for standardizing component APIs pt.2

#tldr Why Design Systems, and a more structured approach to frontend engineering in general, might be key to a more shared frontend ecosystem. And how this thought might hit an interesting inflection point rather sooner than later, with the advent of production-ready Web Components as a shared technical standard and foundation for interoperability.

So what are the missing pieces? And how could our latest release, and the accompanying schema tooling open sourced with it, play into this? And what would a blog post be today, without tying it into AI? Buckle in: this will be a long one!

Release Spotlight: Documentation & Starter

#tldr We’ve added extensive documentation around the creation of Design Systems with kickstartDS. From general intro and foundation articles and component example guides to our main guide “Create your Design System”… explaining every single step of the process in detail. And for everyone wanting to dive in head first, we’ve added an extensive, best-practice Starter as a Github template! Clone it and kickstart your Design System in just 5 minutes!

Release Spotlight: Container Queries

Release Spotlight: Container Queries

#tldr: Container Queries are another new feature coming with the Open Source release of kickstartDS. It’s a proposed feature for CSS that allows the styling of elements to be based on the size of the container in which they are placed, rather than the size of whole browser frame. This is important for Design Systems because it allows for more flexibility and modularity in the design of components.

Release Spotlight: Semantic Token

#tldr: Design Token are all the rage these days. In almost every channel from the Design System space, you can feel a crispy white noise around the broad topic of Design Token. We also put in a lot of effort when refactoring our Token structure in kickstartDS for our latest release. It might look over-engineered on a first glimpse, but we understand ourselves as a meta framework for Design System creation and therefore want to provide you best practice defaults.

kickstartDS is Open Source now. Let’s start to democratize Design Systems today

Finally, the wait is over … today we are very proud to announce the Open Source release of kickstartDS. It’s been roughly one year since we started to go to market as we published our website, and we are thrilled to share the kickstartDS core with everyone from the Design System community.