I am currently using Stencil to create a library of web-components. Since it is standard nowadays to support a dark theme I want my web-components to have this build in.
After doing some research I found that :host-context would be a great way to make all components change theme by simply adding a class to the body, but it looks like this feature will never be fully supported.
All of the other ways I found to achieve this, using features such as ::part(), require a significant amount of work from the library's user which I want to avoid.
If anyone has an idea of how to achieve simple theme toggling for web-components please let me know!
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In my application,
I have implemented theming using an angular material theme but it is so heavy for my project...
that's why I don't want to depend on it.
After that I have implemented using the CSS Variables it is working fine
but it doesn't have full support you can check it over here.
QUESTION: anyone can suggest another way?
I have something on my mind for quite a while but couldn't find an answer to it. Consider the following:
You like to build a fancy website with React and have to decide which front-end framework you should use. In my example I have chosen Material-UI.
Now you came to a point where you need more features like a responsive grid system, show/hide styles etc. Instead of implementing them on your own (or copying it from bootstrap/foundation, for example) you think: 'Hey, why wouldn't I include another framework beside Material-UI'.
Now comes the question. I know that most of the css frameworks available have their own normalisation css and basic styles for typography and other elements.
Can I safely include another (more featured) css framework beside Material-UI without breaking fundamental things or should I avoid that?
Furthermore, what is a good practice approach to extend the css features without copying parts from other frameworks and without reinventing the wheel all the time. Did you ever had a case or project where you had to combine multiple front-end frameworks and how did you solve this problem?
Thanks for your feedback.
Cheers
Gregor
FYI, there's a Material Design version of Foundation, you can check it out at http://eucalyptuss.github.io/material-foundation/
Now, talking about your doubts... one should be very careful when mixing and/or using more than one framework at the same time... one issue can be conflict, other can be unnecessary bloating which could make load time heavier.
However, if you are aware of that, most of modern frameworks (as Foundation) can be compiled partially, so you will be loading only the stuff you'll use, minimizing all possible issues.
Have been thinking this exactly thing lately.. I would choose one that has most of the features i need in my project. I usually go just with Bootstrap (sass version) and use only the styling part of that (css grids mostly).
Mixing frameworks will eventually be hard to maintain and you have to include lot of extra (unused) features into your application. When using some "cool", full featured components like Material-UI has, there will still be times when some component doesn't have just the property you would need.
So my opinion is:
Use some framework for styling only. This way you have uniform look in your site. Or even just some responsive grid library could be enough.
Usually basic html components are enough to fill basic needs, you can just build your own custom components for special needs (or use some from npm library). This way you have just the features you need.
This way my site is not depending just some single framework. I can change the styling part anytime, i can change one component to another etc. without having to re-write my whole application just because it's been developed entirely with some "full featured" framework.
I am currently building a small meteor based quoting tool application. I would like to add Google's material design to it and and having a hard time to decide what is the best way to do that.
I would like to hear from someone who has done this, am I in right track and what are the potential issues with solution options below, or is there better existing solution?
Installing polymer to public folder and use bower to build the client packages.
Installing materialize CSS using Atmosphere package https://atmospherejs.com/materialize/materialize
Using momentum https://atmospherejs.com/percolate/momentum to roll my own components https://atmospherejs.com/percolate/momentum
Elements I want to use are paper-elements + Google drive and sheets, plus might need more in the future.
If you go the Polymer route, you will be able to use the paper-styles component. It would require manual application, but it'd give you the most authentic Material Design experience. In addition, you can use the various paper elements directly, swapping out normal input elements for paper-input, for example.
Is there a sort of css framework which i can add to a gwt project, and this will completely set a new UI to my gwt application. Sort of changing the look and feel.
I love GWT, but others like Vaadin are so good styled, if there were a complete set of css librarys that would make my app a lot nicer would we great.
I think we can be great developers but not so good designers.
Thanks!
I would recommend starting with http://gwtbootstrap.github.io/
As well as: https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideUiCss
I would then dive deeper into the GWT docs to get a good handle on creating your custom themes. At some point any styling theme/framework will fail your needs and you will need to have some fundamentals for styling yourself.
Personally, I highly recommend using UiBinder and ClientBundle:
https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideUiBinder
http://granitode.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/gwt-uibinder-using-a-clientbundle-with-cssresources/
#fguespe, I'm not aware of something such for example twitter bootstrap that you 'just' plug.
Eventually the 'web designer' needs to know about specific gwt CSS classes that impact the look and feel. If importing the GWT 'non plain' themes, you'll need to write customizations.
Yes indeed Vaadin and GXT provide a default nicer look and feel... Let's just fire all Google devs for a lack of focus :-)
I am currently using the jQuery autocomplete feature. Functionality wise, it works awesome!
But in terms of styling (in addition to theme roller), I would really like to see something like
http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/ and
http://www.emposha.com/demo/fcbkcomplete/
I am still reading the codes in these plugin, so that I can achieve similar look/behavior. Ideally, I would rather stick with jQuery UI library than switching over to other plugin. How would one go about making this happen?
EVERYTHING in Jquery is style-able via CSS. If you want to achieve a different look, simply build CSS that will override the default styles. If there's a specific style you're trying to achieve, I'm sure quite a few of us would be happy to help with ideas to make them happen.
BTW, the emposa.com site link you provided is completely dead. I'm hoping you're not trying to achieve THAT style....