Antd
Dev tools
ui component library
SHOW HN2016
507points
104comments
#20of 2,264 in 2016
Top 1%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
15 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 15 critical, out of 51 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Design: 6 for, 9 againstPerformance: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful, detailed components and polished design language
From 4 comments
Some really beautiful components like the TreeSelect in there, not trivial to build at all. That said, the first time I loaded the page sure took a long time. Kind of sad to need…
SlyShy on HNI was playing with it, great toolkit. The overall design language is neatly done. Is it possible to convert the remaining site pages [0] into english. Also, the mobile friendly…
crudbug on HNThis is the nicest collection of web UX components I've ever seen (better than bootstrap). All of the look and feel (responsiveness and delays) are just right. Animations are not…
nodesocket on HNWow! that's very detailed UI kit. You guys thought all the necessary details when building web apps. It will definitely be my next project's UI kit :)
cturhan on HN
Useful in internal apps and saves development time
From 2 comments
we use antd component to build our internal applications almost half a year. It improves our efficiency obviously. thanks antd team.
morejs on HNI like it, there have been a couple projects where this would have cut time in half. Some of the controls were hard to navigate on an iPad Pro. Time in particular was hard to…
iampherocity on HN
Objections
Slow initial load and heavy bundle size (~1MB minified)
From 4 comments
Some really beautiful components like the TreeSelect in there, not trivial to build at all. That said, the first time I loaded the page sure took a long time. Kind of sad to need…
SlyShy on HNI don't want to be that guy, and probably will be downvoted for being negative, but why does everything load so slow? People on this thread are saying it's the network speed…
cocktailpeanuts on HNThe design is good. It look nice! But it is very heavy compared to native HTML and CSS. It's like taking a space ship, to go visit your neighbor.
z3t4 on HNThe minified version is about 1MB, see https://unpkg.com/antd@2.5.0/dist/ . But you can import component individually by using this babel plugin…
_yesmeck on HN
Hard to theme; requires Less/webpack toolchain
From 3 comments
I tried using these components in Buttercup (our open source password vault https://github.com/buttercup-pw/buttercup), but immediately regretted it. It's impossible to theme,…
sallar on HNThese components look and work great, but unfortunately are a real headache to retheme unless you want to pull in a sass/less toolchain in addition to what you're currently…
secoif on HNIt is not a headache to retheme them. It is pretty easy, the easiest i've seen in a UI kit. You have style and classname overrides in place, scoped css classnames and LESS. If…
mlsarecmg on HN
Poor mobile and small-window layout
From 3 comments
Man this site is unusable on mobile
mikeryan on HNThe site looks pretty bad in a small browser window: http://i.imgur.com/0xVlHbI.png
dEnigma on HNThe site has some really good components. The only stopping me from using it is its not designed with mobile in mind. You don't get bootstrap like classes 'col-md-6 col-sm-12'.…
anilshanbhag on HN
Weak keyboard focus styles
From 1 comment
This stuff is horrible to use from the keyboard visually, because outlines have been removed without an adequate replacement. Please fix the styles for :focus et al. Make it all…
chrismorgan on HN
Documentation largely in Chinese and broken links
From 3 comments
This looks promising! How does this compare to BlueprintJS [0]? While I did like some components from Antd and intend to look into the source, from a basic overview, a lot of the…
ohstopitu on HN@__yesmeck Cool! broken link to https://ant.design/docs/pattern/principle on https://ant.design/docs/spec/introduce
fraserharris on HNI was playing with it, great toolkit. The overall design language is neatly done. Is it possible to convert the remaining site pages [0] into english. Also, the mobile friendly…
crudbug on HN
Requests
Use styled-components or CSS variables for theming
From 2 comments
Theming is on of the big reasons we saw the need to make styled-components[0] (new lib to style React apps and component libraries) I'm one of the maintainers of ElementalUI, and…
mxstbr on HNThese components look and work great, but unfortunately are a real headache to retheme unless you want to pull in a sass/less toolchain in addition to what you're currently…
secoif on HN
Translate docs into English
From 2 comments
I was playing with it, great toolkit. The overall design language is neatly done. Is it possible to convert the remaining site pages [0] into english. Also, the mobile friendly…
crudbug on HNThis looks promising! How does this compare to BlueprintJS [0]? While I did like some components from Antd and intend to look into the source, from a basic overview, a lot of the…
ohstopitu on HN
Bootstrap-themed version
From 1 comment
Great library, and very good to have an alternative to the react date/timepicker widgets out there. Is someone already working on a bootstrap-themed version of this?
bflesch on HN
React Native version
From 1 comment
It's so beautiful! Please please make something like this for react native too.
eklavya on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Blueprint, Material-UI or Bootstrap?
From 4 comments
I was wondering if someone who is good at JS can compare this to BluePrint[1]? [1] https://github.com/palantir/blueprint
electic on HNHow's this compare to material-ui? I like material ui and it looks like you have some nice components, just curious what the x-factor is. Always up to use a new tool!
jbhatab on HNThis looks promising! How does this compare to BlueprintJS [0]? While I did like some components from Antd and intend to look into the source, from a basic overview, a lot of the…
ohstopitu on HNHas anyone used these: http://themes.getbootstrap.com/ How does it compare ?
misiti3780 on HN
What is the file size?
From 1 comment
What's the filesize for this?
Rodeoclash on HN
Alternatives named
Blueprint
From 2 comments
I was wondering if someone who is good at JS can compare this to BluePrint[1]? [1] https://github.com/palantir/blueprint
electic on HNThis looks promising! How does this compare to BlueprintJS [0]? While I did like some components from Antd and intend to look into the source, from a basic overview, a lot of the…
ohstopitu on HN
Material-UI
From 1 comment
How's this compare to material-ui? I like material ui and it looks like you have some nice components, just curious what the x-factor is. Always up to use a new tool!
jbhatab on HN
Bootstrap
From 2 comments
Has anyone used these: http://themes.getbootstrap.com/ How does it compare ?
misiti3780 on HNGreat library, and very good to have an alternative to the react date/timepicker widgets out there. Is someone already working on a bootstrap-themed version of this?
bflesch on HN
dva
From 1 comment
Has anyone used this? https://github.com/dvajs/dva
Kiro on HN
styled-components
From 1 comment
Theming is on of the big reasons we saw the need to make styled-components[0] (new lib to style React apps and component libraries) I'm one of the maintainers of ElementalUI, and…
mxstbr on HN