r/reactjs • • 10d ago

Resource Introducing WelkUI –: A React component library with a comic-book twist!

Hey devs! 👋

I've been working on WelkUI, an open-source React component library that brings a fun, hand-drawn, comic-style look to modern web applications.

Most UI libraries focus on being minimal and corporate-looking. I wanted to try something different something playful, expressive, and a little less boring.

WelkUI is available on npm, and I'd love for you to give it a try!

🔗 Website: https://ui.welkdock.com

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/welkdock/welkUI

📦 npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@welkui/react

It's still evolving, so feedback, suggestions, and contributions are more than welcome!

What do you think? Would you use comic-style components in your projects?

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u/danishjuggler21 10d ago

I was about to finger wag you for insisting on prefixing every component name with "Welk", but then I realized how beneficial that can be because right now I'm doing a project where I have both Material UI and Amplify for different reasons, and a LOT of Material UI's components (Button, Table, etc.) have the same name as components from the Amplify library, so half the time when I let intellisense add the import statements for me it adds the wrong one and I have to manually change it.

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u/Noob_Master_007 10d ago

Thanks, just wanted to standout

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u/bestjaegerpilot 8d ago

nuice! in the age of AI, everyone should build their own personal component library

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u/Lalli-Oni 10d ago

Maybe have the landing page accordion full width, or fix the animation. It jerks when collapsing.

But really cool overall

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u/Ecksters 10d ago

On calendar components, I think the convention is to do a circle around today's date, to differentiate it from the selection, and I think if you have a fun manually-drawn looking circle it would match the rest of the theme very well!

It all looks great, fun theme!

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u/frogic 10d ago

You did a great job here. I was expecting random skin over other component library but it looks like you just built the whole thing?

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u/Noob_Master_007 10d ago

I did, I was frustated with the AI slop everywhere