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AlloyUI – a framework built on top of YUI3

by srid68 on 6/30/13, 11:11 AM with 22 comments

  • by gotofritz on 6/30/13, 11:44 AM

    Oh, yes, the Liferay UI library built on top of YUI. I avoided it like the plague when I had to work with Liferay.

  • by joeblau on 6/30/13, 1:35 PM

    Wow this library looks great. Some of the widgets like the image cropper and schedule look amazing. Thanks fot he post.

    Edit: Wow, I really like the diagram builder. I've been looking for something like this for almost a year.

  • by detay on 6/30/13, 6:25 PM

    I expect to see more from a UI library, instead of a bunch of "would be cool to add" modules. When you use a UI library in your project you somehow get married to it. For everything that UI library doesn't provide you have to use other libraries, then it becomes a mess.

    For this reason I refuse to use a non-complete library (where as lots of UI elements are missing such as this one). If I'll have to fill the missing parts with other frameworks I won't use it at the very beginning.

  • by IzzyMurad on 6/30/13, 11:46 PM

    Most of these widgets already come bundled with Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/javascript.html) and it's done better; see http://alloyui.com/examples/button/, for example, you get a checkbox then it's converted to a button after being displayed for a brief period.

  • by mhd on 6/30/13, 2:40 PM

    Are there some extended examples? I'm not quite sure whether this is closer to JQuery UI (i.e. some widgets for normal web pages) or ExtJS (desktop-like Intranet apps). Looking at documentation for e.g. the DataTable, it seems it's closer to the former. (Where I wouldn't be looking at YUI3 right now, as compared to e.g. Angular or Ember. I would be "in the market" for a decent enough ExtJS replacement though...)

  • by jwarren on 6/30/13, 12:34 PM

    I've never used seriously used YUI, but this actually seems like a really nice library. I'm impressed with the breadth of it. The Rosetta Stone is also a great idea which really takes away a lot of the fears of using a different library.

  • by ccleve on 6/30/13, 4:01 PM

    The breadth of this library is really remarkable. It feels slow, though.

    I think people underestimate the importance of a snappy fast interface. We use bootstrap + handlebars and get really fast response, at the cost of having to build a lot ourselves.

  • by usablebytes on 6/30/13, 5:37 PM

    3 years back, when we had to use it with Liferay, the experience wasn't really great. Hope it has improved now; need to check.