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6 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Privacy: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Accessible and well designed components
From 1 comment
This is impressively good - I admit that without looking at the URL I felt like visiting an official gov.uk website. Now, as someone else mentioned this might be a bit deceiving,…
denysvitali on HN
Useful for projects needing high accessibility
From 1 comment
One example is the RNIB (Blindness and sight loss charity in the UK) - they use various bits of GOV.UK Frontend on their website, such as the breadcrumbs and accordion on [0].…
matteason on HN
Objections
Could be used to impersonate government services
From 2 comments
Impressive, but haven’t we just handed crooks the perfect tool for crafting their next GOV.UK themed phishing site?
NtG_UK on HNA friendly word of warning - I also re-implemented the GOV.UK design system for my form builder SaaS and stood up a demo form showing off the components in a real multi-step…
midenginedcoupe on HN
Unofficial use of GOV.UK name may confuse users
From 2 comments
This is cool but I think you should be crystal clear that this is not an official gov.uk project. Like, put the word "unofficial" in the header, project description, etc.
pimlottc on HNThis is impressive Matt, and I love the design system GDS has developed, but I'm not sure they want non-government services to use the system. From the second link you posted: >…
baliex on HN
Requests
Cross-framework web components
From 1 comment
It'd be really great if these were cross-framework compatible web components.
spankalee on HN
Questions
Does it keep up with GDS Frontend updates?
From 1 comment
Do you generate the updates for this when GDS frontend updates? I think that's how the GDS django support stays up to date, otherwise it will be hard to keep up.
stuaxo on HN
Is SSR supported and does it work with progressive enhancement?
From 1 comment
Hey Matt, Super cool to see this, and congrats on 1.0! One question, has the GDS stance on Javascript softened, namely progressive enhancement being essentially mandatory [1],…
alphalima on HN
Alternatives named
GOV.UK Frontend direct use
From 1 comment
GOV.UK Frontend is already fully open source [0] with comprehensive documentation [1] and GDS encourage community contributions, libraries and resources [2]. If there was any…
matteason on HN
PrimeVue
From 1 comment
I like this, feels very usable and not too visually noisy! For the most part, the most feature complete component library I've found for Vue is PrimeVue https://primevue.org/…
KronisLV on HN
French and Czech government design systems
From 2 comments
Very interesting. France government is providing a design system as well https://www.systeme-de-design.gouv.fr/ A Vue impementation is available too https://vue-ds.fr/
manuelleduc on HNCzech eGovernment has a similar component library with support for pure HTML, React, Vue and Angular. link: https://designsystem.gov.cz/
Tajnymag on HN