Hello all,
In parallel to the ongoing proposal to abstract our design system, I am currently working on a comparison of existing front-end libraries.
I’ve made an as exhaustive as possible comparison matrix.
I excluded from the final choice frameworks made with the support of a large company as I believe a community is a better sign of long term longevity of project (i.e., Fast, or Spectrum to mention the most popular).
I also excluded Tailwind and Radix (based on tailwind) as we did not had an please development experience with it (to be confirmed by @ludovic).
I also excluded Shoelace and Buefy as they are supported by core teams of one developer, which seems very minimal.
Remains:
- Vuetify which is providing a large set of component, mentions accessibility, support internationalization, themes, sass, is popular (38k starts on github) and has an active roadmap.
- Primevue, which is providing an even larger set of components than Vuetify (e.g., the tree component), mentions accessibility, support internationalization, sass, is popular 4.7k starts on github (which is far from Vuetify I agree), and has an active roadmap
We already have some experience with Vuetify thanks to @ludovic prototype, but not so much with Primevue.
In conclusion, given the large set of components of Primevue, I suggest to give it a try on the prototype before doing a definitive choice.
As usual, please comment if you see something missing, or have any other remark.
Thanks