Best Practices on building a UI component library for your company
summary
A runnable internal component library is claim and proof not buzzword salad: a single codebase serves marketing, blog, eight MuleSoft products and legacy apps, styles propagate instantly, and developer velocity increases. Implementation uses ES6, React, PostCSS with CSS Modules for isolated styles, SVG sprite icons for lightweight multi‑colour glyphs, PropTypes‑driven docs and a live code playground, and distribution relies on per-component npm builds plus webpack externals and CI reporting back usage via a lambda; the system works in production.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 5:14Scalable
- 5:38Component based architectures
- 8:02What lives in the style guide?
- 12:41Atomic Design
- 22:05Do I really need this?
- 24:03Global Assets
- 32:39Build components separately
- 35:07Monitor Component Usage
- 36:37lessons learned
- 41:45Final thoughts
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