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Show HN: Open Components – UI Components standard for people, devs and AI agents

By alexgrozav 2 min read 29 views 0 comments

Hello awesome people,I've been thinking a lot lately about how I can make my knowledge and craft more valuable in the times we live in. I've been building UI libraries for the past 10 years, and I've been on a quest to perfect the components that I build. I want to share my knowledge with you.
Like most of you, probably, I've been using a lot of AI in my craft, and I feel most of the time the code is just good enough, but never at the level of quality that I strive for or that I would reach if I wrote it by hand. That needs to change, and I want it to change for everyone else, too. That's how the Open Components initiative was born.Each component gets a single page that walks through four directions: User Interface, User Experience, Developer Experience, and Agentic Experience, and ends with a checklist. Every rule in it has an ID like `button/keep-focus`, a level and a way to check it, so you or your agents can cite it in a code review. Every page is also published as markdown, and provides the contract as a YAML file, containing every rule in about an eighth of the page’s length.It’s still early. Right now there are only the Button and Input components and a page on how to name…

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