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Today, we’re diving into another crucial aspect of modern web design and development: components. This feature is a part of Penpot’s major 2.0 release, which introduces a host of new capabilities to bridge the gap between design and code further. Let’s explore how Penpot’s implementation of components can supercharge your design workflow and foster even better collaboration across teams.
About Components
Components are reusable building blocks that form the foundation of modern user interfaces. They encapsulate a piece of UI or functionality that can be reused across your application. This concept of composability — building complex systems from smaller, reusable parts — is a cornerstone of modern web development.
Why does composability matter? There are several key benefits:
Single source of truth
Changes to a component are reflected everywhere it’s used, ensuring consistency.Flexibility with simpler dependencies
Components can be easily swapped or updated without affecting the entire system.Easier maintenance and scalability
As your system grows, components help manage complexity.
In the realm of design, this philosophy is best expressed in the concept of design systems. When done right, design systems help to bring your design and code together, reducing ambiguity and streamlining the processes.
Today, we’re diving into another crucial aspect of modern web design and development: components. This feature is a part of Penpot’s major 2.0 release, which introduces a host of new capabilities to bridge the gap between design and code further. Let’s explore how Penpot’s implementation of components can supercharge your design workflow and foster even better collaboration across teams.
About Components
Components are reusable building blocks that form the foundation of modern user interfaces. They encapsulate a piece of UI or functionality that can be reused across your application. This concept of composability — building complex systems from smaller, reusable parts — is a cornerstone of modern web development.
Why does composability matter? There are several key benefits:
Single source of truth
Changes to a component are reflected everywhere it’s used, ensuring consistency.Flexibility with simpler dependencies
Components can be easily swapped or updated without affecting the entire system.Easier maintenance and scalability
As your system grows, components help manage complexity.
In the realm of design, this philosophy is best expressed in the concept of design systems. When done right, design systems help to bring your design and code together, reducing ambiguity and streamlining the processes.
Many people would say that it is absolute madness to keep on doing the same thing, time after time, expecting to get a different result or for something different to happen.
One of the main benefits of using composable components in front-end libraries such as React is their support of props. Component props (short for properties) allow you a great deal of flexibility in how you configure and customize your components, depending on how, where, and when they are used.
Penpot offers similar capabilities in a design tool with variants and overrides. You can switch variants, hide elements, change styles, swap nested components within instances, or even change the whole layout of a component, providing flexibility while maintaining the link to the original component.
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