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> A UI library for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, whatever... Imagine being able to have a component library that works with any of them (or none of them).

That seems to be a worthy goal, but I don't see that being usable in prod projects, at least not in the near future.

The closest I've seen is something like PrimeFaces, which has components for Angular, React and Vue, which is the majority of projects I've seen out there: https://www.primefaces.org (I've also used the Java JSF variety, it was... sometimes problematic)

If you need something that works the same (or as close as you can get) across multiple front end frameworks/libraries, while still having most of the components you could possibly want, I don't think there are many other options out there.

For example:

- Angular calendar: https://www.primefaces.org/primeng/calendar

- React calendar: https://www.primefaces.org/primereact/calendar/

- Vue calendar: https://www.primefaces.org/primevue/calendar

Still the same issue though. What about Svelte? What about solid? What about mithril?

I know this might seem like a "who cares" sort of thing since the industry has standardized on the three listed, but I find all three overkill for a lot of things and, for example, keep my small projects in Mithril. But then I'm hit with either using Construct UI (which is honestly ok, this is all internal stuff), or having to make all the components myself.

What makes it such an impossibility for production? Even if, as in the case of Ionic, they provide web components but also wrap them up for React, Vue and Angular.

> I know this might seem like a "who cares" sort of thing since the industry has standardized on the three listed

It is that sort of thing and it breaks my heart that this is the case.

And yet, supporting solutions that would work with any front end solution and do so well without death by committee is some ways off, if not outright impossible.

It's very much the same way how I love Firefox but when >95% of your userbase is on Chrome, you need to pay additional attention to testing and compatibility against it.

It's also very much how many of the SaaS solutions or even self-hostable tools and such might have integrations for most of the popular languages/frameworks/libraries out there, yet keep the niche ones unsupported due to a lack of market share.

So for now, I'll just take what I can get, in lieu of better options.

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