Backlight

Make design systems that front-end teams want to use

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Make design systems that front-end teams want to use

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Backlight is a unique collaborative platform to build Design Systems code-side. 📐 Design tokens 🧩 Component code and stories 📖 Documentation site 📦 Managed release to npm Everything in one place, in a true collaborative workspace.

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Maker

Hi Hunters! 🎉 It's hard for us to hide the excitement of unveiling Backlight today. We have been working on it within closed doors with early access customers for more than 2 years. It is now time to open it to a broader audience! 👷 I have been working with @francois_valdy and @gregory_quinio for a decade now. Backlight is born from our pain when building multiple front-ends in previous lifes. - How to build consistent front-end experiences? - How to have accessibility built-in everywhere? - How to avoid re-creating the same thing multiple times? - How to make sure recruits use existing components? - How to keep quality and maintainability under control? ☝️ The answer is to build a Design System* 😰 But Design Systems are very complex to build and maintain. It's a team effort that involves Designers and Developers at every single step. Existing tools are just not embracing this collaboration requirement, and it's probably too expensive to start your own Design System. 🦸‍♀ This is where Backlight comes in! 🤗 Backlight embraces collaboration between Developers and Designers. 🧐 Reviewing HTML and CSS code only tells part of the story. Backlight speeds up every step of reviews by rendering components as a first-class citizen. 👩‍💻 Integrates into the Git workflow without requiring a command-line so Designers can contribute easily. 🚀 Backlight comes with several starter-kits to lower the cost of starting a design system. We have starter-kits or samples in React, Vue, Svelte, Web Components, and more. More are coming up! 📦 The release management is built-in. So you can release your Design System as an `npm` package in pretty much one click. 🔒 No lock-in; Backlight only use standard Web technologies, so you can take your design system out at any time and build it on your own. 🆓 We have a very generous free-tier where 3 users can collaborate on a Design System. Ideal for freelancers working on design systems for customers for example 👍 🎁 Just for Hunters 😸, we offer a promotion coupon of 50% for 1 year towards the PRO tier. Get it now with code: PH2021. 🤗 Thanks for reading. I hope to see you soon on our community discord. 🎥 I hope you enjoy the video. Shoutout to Pierrick on the team that work long hours to put that together 👍 (*) https://backlight.dev/mastery/wh...

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4yr ago

Qovery

@francois_valdy @gregory_quinio @georges_gomes awesome guys 🔥

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4yr ago

figma.to.website

Maker

Thanks @romaric_philogene 🙇‍♂️

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4yr ago

@francois_valdy @gregory_quinio @georges_gomes Wow! Very slick platform, Best of luck with the launch!

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4yr ago

@francois_valdy @gregory_quinio @georges_gomes @stewup i think that is good!

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4yr ago

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Maker

@francois_valdy @gregory_quinio @stewup Thanks Stewart! Upflowy is also slick 😄 Well done with your launch 👍

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4yr ago

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Hi Hunters 😸 I first heard of Backlight a few months ago on a visio call with @georges_gomes. I was in the car on a family trip for the Christmas holidays. The meeting was so good that it continued at the McDonald's where I stopped to feed the kids 😄 Step by step, the product answered all the pain points we had when building extraordinary front-ends with developers and designers working together. For the first time, you have a solution that takes into account both developers and designers in the process of building and maintaining a design system. With remote work becoming the norm for front-end teams, a central point of collaboration for the design system is vital to unlocking maximum velocity and quality. They have design systems starter kits for pretty much any web technology. You could have your initial design system today! Give it a try by yourself: https://backlight.dev -Thibaud-

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4yr ago

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Maker

Thanks @tiboel, for your support 🙏 I will never forget that meeting in the middle of "happy meal" boxes. Everybody knows that I'm a McDonald's fan, so I really felt at home 😄

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4yr ago

Qovery

I have been following what those guys are doing since the early days, and the promise of Backlight completely sells me. As a product developer, keeping sync frontend developers and product designers is not an easy task. Especially when we have released our product and our designers need to validate our integrated components and design system. Thanks to Backlight for easing our product team collaboration at Qovery. Backlight is a must-have for all product-driven companies and teams. I recommend 💯

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4yr ago

figma.to.website

Maker

@romaric_philogene Thank you Romaric. Your support means a lot 👍

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4yr ago

html.to.design

Maker

Awesome product, built Simba design system in this and it was so refreshing to not have to set up a toolchain and just get started instantly. Docs & demos out of the box with both MDX and MDJS support as well, really cool!

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4yr ago

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@jorenb It's pretty amazing what Joren has done in a small timeframe. Check the Simba Design System here : https://backlight.dev/edit/5vtJt.... Web Components and Lion based for accessibility. Open-source 🎁

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4yr ago

What is the main difference between this product and Supernova? What other products are the biggest competitors in this space?

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4yr ago

Still looking for answers here :)

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4yr ago

Bonjour App for Zoom

Congrats Backlight for working on addressing this long lasting pain! And thanks @tiboel for hunting it ;-)

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4yr ago

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Maker

@etidar Thanks! Someone has to take care of it! 💪😄

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4yr ago

figma.to.website

Maker

Together, now developers and designers can use the same tool for review, sharing and documenting, the dev side of the design systems. Live visual review is a must as well as Documentation. Sharing a preview link is also a must, but not having to wait for any CI or build behind the scene and starving server resources is game changer, because everything happens in the browser and the update is lightning fast. But stay tuned, there is more to come.

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4yr ago

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