Hacker News Reader

How does this compare to golden layout? Inspired by it?

I really enjoyed that project back in the day, but unfortunately support completely stopped (it had some folks take over, but I didn't see a real feasible upgrade path despite their passionate work on updating it).

This looks great! I'd be interested in giving it a try.

View on HN

golden layout is the OG JavaScript layout manager, used it for many years beforehand.

Orginally yes it was inspired by some of the other layout managers, include golden layout. The main goal here was to have zero depenedencies and to be written in Vanilla TypeScript with wrapper libraries for frameworks such as Vue and React.

Any feedback is appreicated, the website demo shows most of the current capabilities and there are many more planned in the Issues list.

I just tried using golden layout the other day. The demo on their website with react support is v1 and when I installed it, I got v2 which apparently drops react support and has no documentation or examples on the website. With v1, it only supported class based components. While in theory you could maintain your own adapter logic for golden layout, it seems somewhat defunct, there are other newer libs that may even have better feeling drag and drop like this one. I also recall about six years ago when I went to use Golden layout on another project I ended up implementing my own with vanilla type script because of some (perceived) issues with it. My experiences have always been that although it is ubiquitous it’s not that great.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com