kickstartDS - The starter kit for design systems, open source, low-code

Congrats on the launch kickstartDS team! I have recently had the opportunity to implement a design system built on top of kickstartDS and I had a very positive experience. My favorite part is that component schemas utilize JSON schema standard, and kickstartDS tooling then made it possible to convert our design system components into schema for our headless digital experience platform. That and the out-of-the-box React components implementation were huge time-savers and we were able to spin up a POC in record time, very impressed!

This would help designers a lot!

Congrats on the launch, folks!

I recently had the experience of creating a design system from scratch, and it was definitely a lot tougher than it would have been if I had had a framework to help me out. Thanks for creating this awesome product, kickstartDS!

This is really awesome. As a designer, I could even see myself setting the values up if necessary - it seems very easy.

Hey Product Hunters! 👋 Today we are very proud to announce our Open Source release 🥳 kickstartDS is a Design System starter and UI development toolkit for building up your Design System. Usually Design Systems are very unique and individual to the organization implementing them, which makes Design systems expensive, tough to maintain, hard to get started. Those are the main reasons why we decided to go Open Source (read more in our blog post). We took great care to create kickstartDS as a meta-framework, to enable you, and your team, to build brand-compliant websites and apps super efficiently through your own Design System. All while using core web technologies — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — and best practices: ✔️ Design Token with token layering from branding down to the component level ✔️ Design Token utilizing semantic naming ✔️ Instantly use best practice defaults, or make it your own entirely ✔️ Full flexibility to help you in creating your own Design System: 26 ready to implement components with 250+ available properties and 500+ tokens to help you make the best design decisions

Setting up a code first Design System has never been easier

To help you get started quickly, we created documentation guiding you through the implementation process of your first Design System built with kickstartDS in just 5 rather simple steps: 1. Start your Design System 2. Design Application 3. Configure Storybook 4. Add Components 5. Publish your Design System Although the resulting Design System will obviously not be finished by the end of that guide, you'll have everything set up to start the real work. Get started building your own Design System today by 👉 installing kickstartDS 👉 following the Create your first Design System tutorial 💛 joining our Community and spread the love 😺 exploring our Github repositories 🤲 We promise, no vendor lock-in. You own it! ✊ kickstartDS is Open Source now. Let’s start to democratize Design Systems today. We'd love to hear your feedback, or chat with you about kickstartDS! Feel free to tag us on Twitter, LinkedIn or wherever you are 🙏

Super excited to finally show what we've been working on for almost 2 years! 👋 If you have any questions, feel free to just ask! We'll be here the whole day answering your feedback! 🥳 Let's kickstart something together! 🍋 🚀

congrats on the launch team @holocron

These guys really know how to set up a great design system! I think kickstartDS has all the right ingredients to get any team up and running with a design system that will help their product be consistent and efficient. Great work! 🎉

I has the first had experience working with KickstarterDS team. They have done a great job to help you significantly reduce the time to build with a comprehensive components collection. Highly recommend! And congratulations on the PH launch!

Congrats for the launch 👑

Congrats on the launch, team! It was great chatting with you during development. The tool is looking great 👍

Super excited to try it out!