🎨 Open UI Kit

React Component Library & Design System

A comprehensive design system and component library for modern applications

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🌟 Overview

Welcome to the Open UI Kit monorepo! This is an open source design system and component library, containing reusable React components, design tokens, and comprehensive documentation to accelerate development across modern applications.

Open UI Kit is designed to be framework-agnostic, accessible, and highly customizable while providing excellent developer experience out of the box.

✨ What's Inside

• 🎯 50+ Production-Ready Components - Accessible, tested, and documented
• 🌓 Dark/Light Theme Support - Seamless theme switching with design tokens
• 📱 Responsive Design System - Mobile-first components that scale beautifully
• ♿ Accessibility First - WCAG 2.1 AA compliant by default
• 🔧 TypeScript Native - Full type safety and excellent developer experience
• 📊 Data Visualization - Rich charting components for analytics dashboards
• 🎨 Design Tokens - Consistent colors, typography, spacing, and more
• 📚 Interactive Documentation - Comprehensive Storybook with live examples

📦 Packages

Package	Description	Version	Documentation
@open-ui-kit/core	Core component library built on Material-UI		📚 Docs

🚀 Quick Start

# Install the core package
npm install @open-ui-kit/core @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled

# Start building with Open UI Kit
import { ThemeProvider, Button } from '@open-ui-kit/core';

👉 View Full Installation Guide

🏗️ Architecture

This monorepo is organized for maximum developer efficiency and component reusability:

open-ui-kit/
├── packages/
│   └── open-ui-kit/    # Core component library
├── playground/                   # Development playground
├── plugins/                      # Build and release tooling
└── docs/                        # Additional documentation

🛠️ Built With

• React 18 - Modern React with hooks and concurrent features
• Material-UI v5 - Foundation for accessible, customizable components
• TypeScript - Type safety and enhanced developer experience
• Emotion - Performant CSS-in-JS styling solution
• Storybook - Interactive component documentation and testing
• Jest & Testing Library - Comprehensive testing suite
• Turborepo - High-performance monorepo build system

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the open source community! Whether you're fixing bugs, adding features, or improving documentation, your help makes Open UI Kit better for everyone.

🌟 Why Contribute?

• 📈 Impact thousands of developers - Your contributions will be used by developers worldwide
• 🚀 Learn and grow - Work with modern React, TypeScript, and design systems
• 🎯 Shape the future - Help define the direction of an open source design system
• 🏆 Recognition - Get credit for your contributions in our changelog and contributors list

📋 Getting Started

1. Read the Guidelines

   • 📝 Contributing Guidelines - Code standards, PR process, and best practices
   • 🛠️ Development Setup - Local development environment setup

2. Set Up Your Environment

   git clone https://github.com/outshift-open/open-ui-kit.git
   cd open-ui-kit
   yarn install
   yarn dev

3. Start Contributing

   • 🐛 Bug Reports: Open an issue with detailed reproduction steps
   • 💡 Feature Requests: Propose new ideas in GitHub Discussions
   • 🔧 Pull Requests: Follow our coding standards and include comprehensive tests
   • 📚 Documentation: Help improve guides, examples, and API documentation

🔍 Areas Where We Need Help

• 🎨 New Components - Expand the component library with new, reusable elements
• ♿ Accessibility - Improve WCAG compliance and screen reader support
• 📱 Mobile Experience - Enhance responsive design and touch interactions
• 🧪 Testing - Increase test coverage and add visual regression tests
• 📖 Documentation - Create tutorials, migration guides, and best practices

🐛 Issues & Support

🚨 Report Issues

Found a bug or have a feature request? We want to hear from you!

📝 Open an Issue

When reporting issues, please include:

• 🔍 Clear reproduction steps
• 🖥️ Environment details (Node.js version, browser, OS)
• 📸 Screenshots or recordings (if applicable)
• 💡 Expected vs. actual behavior

🆘 Get Support

Need help? Check out our Contributing Guide for support options.

👥 Maintainers

This project is maintained by the Open UI Kit team:

• Primary Maintainers: @outshift-open/maintainers
• Design Leadership: Open UI Kit Design Team
• Engineering Leadership: Open UI Kit Engineering Team

🤝 Contributors

We welcome contributions from everyone! Check out our contributing guidelines to get started.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

🔗 Related Links

• 📚 Component Documentation - Interactive Storybook
• 📋 Changelog - Release notes and version history
• 🔄 Migration Guide - Version upgrade instructions
• 🎯 Material-UI - Foundation library
• 🏠 GitHub Repository - Source code and issues

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Empowering developers to build exceptional user experiences

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