You know how there are UI library websites that have pre built components and you can just copy the code for that component and paste it in your code. I want to figure out how are the components added and rendered on the page. I’m assuming markdown is used somehow to add components. Is there any CMS that is used, or maybe a static site generator that can ease the process. Or is the process much more complicated than it looks.
Here’s an example for reference Tailwind UI
Are you talking about the documentation pages that have examples? If so, there are tools like Storybook that will build documentation, interactive examples, etc.
Maybe. If you visit the TailwindUI website, you can see there are components listed, and if you click any of the free ones, you can see the rendered version of the component and the actual code which you can copy. How is all these data managed?
Like I said, there are SaaS tools that will help you build that kind of an interactive web application for your component library. Some UI library owners might build their own, but many use available tools. Since these are UI components, it’s not a data intensive application and data management would just depend on how they choose to organize their codebase.
So can I use markdown to manage each component, and then create a rendered component to render it out. I’m thinking of using Astro. Would this be a good approach?
If you want to try building the functionality yourself, that seems like a fine place to start. I’ve never looked into Astro, so I have no opinion on it.
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