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Comment by Dirak | Hacker News Reader

As an engineer who works on design systems for a living, I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed with Chakra UI. Its implementation is refreshingly simple and support for generally overlooked things like color theming and responsiveness is generally really well done. Props to the devs for building this -- the care and attention to detail definitely shows.

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The devs may have props, but how do they handle state?

useReducer? I hardly even know ‘er!

Isn't that beyond the scope of a layout component library? It's React so you manage state.

His comment was in jest. It was a play on the use of the word "props" in "Props to the devs for building this."

Looks like they use Rematch.[0]

[0] https://rematch.github.io/rematch/#/

Thanks for your feedback! We try to keep the app simple and clean but with strong details and ux

Very cool. One suggestion: turn off the autocomplete on the inputs in Chrome. For example if I place an image, in the properties panel I get a lot of weird suggestions as I focus on various fields

I noticed space values (minW, etc) require a “px” to work, but theme-ui doesn’t require it, and defaults “px”

> I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed with Chakra UI. [...] Props to the devs for building this -- the care and attention to detail definitely shows.

I find this quite amusing, since the components were almost all copied from other React component libraries, restyled based on an open source CSS library, and styled-system added for good measure.

The developer has done a decent job of pulling it all together, but credit where credit is due.

Sooo software?

I think you just described 80% of all React-based projects.

Also the project README states clearly that this is an editor for Chakra UI, unless you were commenting on that library in particular (and not the editor).

Please ready my comment in context (which I have added as a quote for easy reference).

Still comes across as diminishing the helpful work.

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