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Last active January 11, 2024 16:56

A top-level App component returns <Button /> from its render() method.

  1. What is the relationship between <Button /> and this in that Button’s render()?

  2. Does rendering <Button><Icon /></Button> guarantee that an Icon mounts?

  3. Can the App change anything in the Button output? What and how?


Kirby + Patterns = <3

When I heard about Brad Frost's Patternlab for the first time at beyond tellerrand I was intrigued. The idea of splitting your design work for a website into simple modules or patterns isn't new and starts to become more and more of a standard. But organizing this into a very visual styleguide/patternlab seemed to make so much sense. Brad also introduced a very interesting approach with his separation of modules into categories, such as atoms, molecules and organisms.

I started porting Brad's patternlab app to Kirby, but it never really made it to something polished and it turned out for me after using it for Kirby's panel UI, that it's actually a pain in the ass to maintain such a pattern collection.

The problem of patternlab

The problem with such a styleguide or patternlab is that it exists next to the real thing. When you change something in your code base you also have to update the particular code for the pattern in patternlab. To be honest I went very quickly from being