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Vanilla Design: The Best React UI Library Ever

✨ Introduction

Vanilla Design is a super lightweight, ultra high-performance React UI library. Vanilla Design Team places a great emphasis on code size and performance, drawing inspiration from the nocode philosophy, which has significantly boosted the security and maintainability of Vanilla Design. It's like they've added an extra layer of bulletproofing and polish to their creation!

📦 Install

You only need to execute the following command to use Vanilla Design in your React application:

npm install vanilla-design
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🔨 Getting Started

Vanilla Design is committed to offering developers a superior development experience. You can integrate Vanilla Design with minimal effort and cost.

Usage

First, we need to import Vanilla Design's styles at the outermost layer of the application:

import "vanilla-design/styles.css";
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Next, you can joyfully make use of all the components provided by Vanilla Design:

import { div } from "vanilla-design";

import "vanilla-design/styles.css";


function App(){

  return <div>Awesome Vanilla Design!</div>
}
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What? You think this isn't "React" enough? No worries, we've got your developer habits covered. Vanilla Design offers an alternative way to import components:

import { Div } from "vanilla-design";

import "vanilla-design/styles.css";


function App(){

  return <Div>Awesome Vanilla Design!</Div>
}
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Wow, now that's super React!

Import on Demand

As a high-performance component library, on-demand loading is an absolute must. Unlike other UI libraries, Vanilla Design has taken on-demand loading to the extreme:

CSS On-demand Importing

If your boss doesn't care about how much code you've written, you can completely skip importing styles:

import { Div } from "vanilla-design";

// import "vanilla-design/styles.css"; Simply comment out that line!


function App(){

  return <Div>Awesome Vanilla Design!</Div>
}
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Component On-demand Importing

Similarly, if you go all lowercase with Vanilla Design, you don't even need to import anything. Your code can be simplified to:

// import { Div } from "vanilla-design"; Simply comment out that line!

// import "vanilla-design/styles.css"; Simply comment out that line!


function App(){

  return <div>Awesome Vanilla Design!</div>
}
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Isn't that pretty cool, right?

❤️ Who's Using?

Even though most companies don't openly declare it, they're secretly sipping from the Vanilla Design well or crafting their own customized component libraries based on it. 😉:

Facebook  Google  YouTube  Yahoo  Wikipedia  Windows  Twitter  Amazon  LinkedIn  MSN
eBay  Microsoft  Apple  Pinterest  PayPal  Reddit  Netflix  Stack Overflow ...
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These companies typically pair Vanilla Design with Vanilla JS, significantly boosting development efficiency. It's like a perfect harmony of flavors for web development! 🍦🚀

🕛 When to use it?

In many scenarios, using Vanilla Design is a fantastic choice:

  • 💡 When your bullheaded boss insists on using a UI library.
  • 💡 When your boss is code-blind and only cares about how much spaghetti code you've cooked up.
  • 💡 When your colleagues are in a never-ending battle over which UI library is the best and declare the rest as garbage.
  • 💡 When you see someone reinventing the wheel by creating yet another component library with nothing new.
  • 💡 And the list goes on...

You can also find more information about Vanilla Design right here.

The repository is open source based on the WTFPL protocol. Don't hesitate to use it in your next project!

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