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.

Unlocking the frontend – a call for standardizing component APIs pt.1

We’re still wasting massive amounts of valuable development cycles in the frontend world by working in silos, or by to at least some extent reinventing the wheel for every project. Results suffer in the process, impacting real world results for users and content creators alike.
How did we get here, and how could a way forward look like? How we’ve already come a long way, and why still (so far) even Jamstack hasn’t been the sole answer, either…