UIBox

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ui component library

SHOW HN2013

118points
28comments
#185of 1,739 in 2013
Top 11%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.

Design: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Curation by people is a good idea

    From 1 comment
    • Nice. I like the idea of curation by the people. This one's good as well: http://iwantaneff.in/repo/
      gprasanth on HN
  • Useful site with a good range of components

    From 2 comments
    • Hey man, This is great, thanks!
      josebalius on HN
    • If you know a max and min start date the jQRangeSlider is awesome. For our application we need more flexibility (i.e. no fixed start and end, and we don't support mobile) so this…
      bargl on HN

Objections

  • Navigation requires too many back and forth clicks between pages

    From 2 comments
    • I would work on shortening the number of forward and back clicks required to browse through the different UI elements.
      nhebb on HN
    • Here is a sample usage: 1. Click on the 'combo-box' tag. 2. The next page shows four UI sources: selectize.js, bootstrap-select, custom-select, and jquery-custom-select-menu. I…
      nhebb on HN
  • Similar components are not relevant to the current item

    From 2 comments
    • Here is a sample usage: 1. Click on the 'combo-box' tag. 2. The next page shows four UI sources: selectize.js, bootstrap-select, custom-select, and jquery-custom-select-menu. I…
      nhebb on HN
    • Hmmm... The similar components are suggested using all of the tags for a particular item. So if it is tagged as 'combo-box', 'bootstrap' then it is equally probable that a…
      bgdam on HN
  • Misspelling of calendar on the site

    From 1 comment
    • You've spelled calendar "calender." It's the same in the blog entry.
      pessimizer on HN

Requests

  • Show dependencies such as jQuery on category pages

    From 1 comment
    • It would be helpful if dependencies like jQuery were visible on the category (tag search result) pages.
      lazyjones on HN
  • Add more visualization components such as nvd3

    From 1 comment
    • Nifty. I've got a suggestion for the visualization category: http://nvd3.org/
      wyantb on HN
  • Search by tag and better similar-item suggestions

    From 1 comment
    • Hmmm... The similar components are suggested using all of the tags for a particular item. So if it is tagged as 'combo-box', 'bootstrap' then it is equally probable that a…
      bgdam on HN

Questions

  • How does licensing work for listed components

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • unheap.com

    From 1 comment
  • jquery-jkit.com

    From 1 comment
    • Looks nice. Here's another site that aggregates jQuery based UI toolkits that you may want to refer to for ideas: http://jquery-jkit.com/
      uptown on HN
  • component/component registry

    From 1 comment
    • I am pretty happy with this component registry... https://github.com/component/component/wiki/Components. It also has a build tool written in node.js,…
      nickjackson on HN
  • pineapple.io

    From 1 comment

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