[tobeagram]

Back in 2018, I worked on projects where we used Ant Design. At the time it was one of the best choices out there for a quick project, as it had all the standard components with a relatively good design out of the box. Since all the easter egg fiasco / css bloat I've avoided using it.

These days, there's just much better options such as shadcn/ui [1], chakra [2] or radix [3] which when paired with frameworks such as floating ui [4] are just much better.

[1]: https://ui.shadcn.com/ [2]: https://v2.chakra-ui.com/getting-started [3]: https://www.radix-ui.com/primitives/docs/overview/introducti... [4]: https://floating-ui.com/docs/getting-started

[BoorishBears]

shadcn/ui is pretty terrible unless you already have a an entire design system you're planning on replacing the defaults with anyways.

Radix Themes (not Primitives) has the WorkOS look without awful color choices and the whole "pretending not to be a component library" gimmick https://www.radix-ui.com/

[SebastianKra]

> the whole "pretending not to be a component library" gimmick

Literally the first line says that it's a component library :)

Snark aside, I'm gonna defend Radix Themes. I agree that the configurations they show on their website aren't great (and also that they should pay more attention to pixel alignment), but they have the most consistent structure I've seen, with well-defined tokens, great composability and flexibility for overrides.

I've found that, with the parameters they provide, I can get a design that is close to what I would've done myself anyways. Eventually, I guess I'll look into adding some light overrides to add a bit more shadow and fix some of the rougher edges.