@planit/design-system Development Platform
Start your own Design System development platform in minutes!
As explained by the Nielsen Norman Group, a design system is a set of standards to manage design at scale by reducing redundancy while creating a shared language and visual consistency across different pages and channels.
There are various parts of a design system that are necessary:
- Clearly documented design standards
- The utilization of a design tooling platform like Figma or Sketch to provide assets to Designers
- A component library to implement the system standards and abstract patterns to ensure consistency across applications
- Development documentation with rich examples of component utilization within an application
- A CSS framework that defines tokens utilized by the design tooling and component library
A design system is not purely technical, so this NPM package is not everything you need. It focues on numbers 3, 4, and 5. When a development platform is paired with an equally strong design platform, it's a recipe for success.
Prerequisites
Before you install, please make sure you are have a Node.js LTS Version installed on your machine.
Installation
Run npx @planit/design-system <your-project-name> to install the project.
If you do not pass a project name, a default name will be provided.
You may also provide an author name if you'd like:
npx @planit/design-system <your-project-name> <author-name>
Documentation
When the package is installed, a Get Started application will launch in your browser window with instructions on how to start building your design system platform.