This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by RBerthier
Building great front-end products is hard and time-consuming.
Web technologies are evolving at high pace, designers and developers struggle to collaborate on handover, building consistent web components requires loads of works, documentation is too often not up-to-date, maintaining apps over time is an Herculean task, ...
You know the story.
Implementing a Design System is a good solution to tackle these challenges. The Design System is the source of truth for all reusable tokens and components to be consumed in web apps. Building and managing a Design System, as a part of a production pipeline, will greatly improve team efficiency and product consistency.
A good Design System should help teams collaborate, improve reusability, manage technologies evolution, build documentation, ship faster / better, and lower maintenance. But building and maintaining the tooling to manage a Design System remains quite time consuming too ...
That's why we launched Backlight.dev, a powerful and collaborative platform to build Design Systems on the code side. Backlight helps front-end teams to deliver value by focusing on their real work, not on maintaing tools.
Backlight comes with some nice features :
- All-in-one : tokens, components, code, stories, tests, documentation, designs, ...
- Technologies / frameworks agnostic
- Real-time preview rendering for tokens, components and documentation
- Real-time and asynchronous collaboration
- Live documentation (MDX with embeded components and code snippets)
- Versioning and repo management with Github / Gitlab / Bitbucket
- Code review and visual diff for Pull-Request
- NPM package export
- In browser or local CLI
- No tools or pipepline to deploy / manage
And best of all, we have a free plan to test Backlight.
Let's give it a try ? :) Start now
Front-end is for heroes. At ‹div›RIOTS, we believe front-end is a beautiful challenge and we are on a mission to empower front-end teams with great tools. Backlight is one of them. We also launched some free sandbox products to play with web components and tokens (check them out here).
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by RBerthier
RBerthier | Sciencx (2021-12-07T15:39:31+00:00) Design systems supercharged. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/12/07/design-systems-supercharged/
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