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Comment by nickradford | Hacker News Reader

I wouldn't trust a UI framework where all of the components are shown as images instead of instances of the actual UI framework...

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I clicked on Dropdown, thinking it's one of the more complex things to implement. It doesn't even have a picture.

I did the same with Select. No picture and the API doesn't make sense. The options are specified twice.

https://www.chainlift.io/components/select

Yeah it's a huge problem. Not accessible either. Idk what I was thinking.

The next release will use radix primitives.

Hey man, if you ever see this, not your fault it ended up on HN early! I'm sure this is solid for your usecase. That's just something that would dissuade me from choosing it!

Hey! I didn't realize this wasn't even posted by the creator of the library. Building shit and launching is hard, don't let it dissuade you from putting stuff out there though!

Also, check out base-ui. Radix is fine, but base ui has generally better primitives and is being actively developed

If they showed the actual css, people could just ... copy it, and then how could they charge for the secret golden ratio code lol

The CSS is in the github repo here: https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit

LiftKit's free forever to anyone. It's just early stages and bad.

The idea was that if a company wanted to hire us for direct support, we'd do that. But the problems are: [A] no enterprise in their right minds would use this thing in its current state and [B] "us" is me and I don't have time to do that anymore

There is that, but I get the impression that you could hire an expert to help.

yeah it's hella pushy about that isn't it? really need to tone it down

Yes, I too felt that way as I began to read, it was an immediate disappointment, kind of, that the UI wasn’t on full display, front and center.

I wouldn’t trust a framework that requires me to involve myself with JavaScript, nextJS, and React, also… but I am generally of the opinion that a framework pitching itself as a UI kit, must pretty much not be a plugin for a web browser…

Yeah the docs are like that because I didn't know React well enough to make my own docs and so I stuck with Webflow and realized very quickly I'd made a huge mistake. But I needed to get something out there to buy time while I figure out how to make grownup docs.

And one that drops frames when I scroll through on Firefox.

lord, really? which one?

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