UI / UX Redesign

[samuelandert]

I was playing a little bit with Semantic UI as a Frontend Framework and quite enjoyed the simplicity and intuitiv use of it. Are there at the moment any ongoing UI plans, where it would make sense to switch to semantic-ui?

[sebbel]

In UX terms, we have planned to use Polymer in the future #110. On top of that Crowducate is built in bootstrap. Could you elaborate on how semantic-ui would help crowducate ui development? I am not against doing a new branch and checking semantic-ui out.

[samuelandert]

It would be exchanged with bootstrap for more intuitive semantic classes.
As for integration with polymer, this is the latest conversations I have found:
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/8943913-how-s-it-going-about-polymer-with-semantic-ui

[brylie]

We can switch to Semantic UI, but need to make sure there are integrations with some Meteor packages, such as AutoForm. Also, the idea of using Polymer is to start building the UI using WebComponents. Either Bootstrap or Semantic UI should be fine with web components.

[dcsan]

if you're still using Blaze, you should consider a port to reactJS first before messing with the CSS.

btw material-ui seems to work very well with react
http://www.material-ui.com/#/

and I think bootstrap 4 is around the corner?
http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/migration/

[brylie]

I would rather wait until Blaze 2 ships before dedicating to a React rewrite. I would like to see how the Meteor core developers handle templating in Blaze 2.

In any case, we can determine how to re-organize the Crowducate code in a single direction dataflow.

[azizur]

As far as am aware there is not going to be a Blaze 2. So ReactJS is the way to go forward.