AlloyUI – a framework built on top of YUI3

Oh, yes, the Liferay UI library built on top of YUI. I avoided it like the plague when I had to work with Liferay.

Wow this library looks great. Some of the widgets like the image cropper and schedule look amazing. Thanks fot he post.<p>Edit: Wow, I really like the diagram builder. I&#x27;ve been looking for something like this for almost a year.

I expect to see more from a UI library, instead of a bunch of &quot;would be cool to add&quot; modules. When you use a UI library in your project you somehow get married to it. For everything that UI library doesn&#x27;t provide you have to use other libraries, then it becomes a mess.<p>For this reason I refuse to use a non-complete library (where as lots of UI elements are missing such as this one). If I&#x27;ll have to fill the missing parts with other frameworks I won&#x27;t use it at the very beginning.

Most of these widgets already come bundled with Bootstrap (<a href="http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/javascript.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.github.io&#x2F;bootstrap&#x2F;javascript.html</a>) and it&#x27;s done better; see <a href="http://alloyui.com/examples/button/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alloyui.com&#x2F;examples&#x2F;button&#x2F;</a>, for example, you get a checkbox then it&#x27;s converted to a button after being displayed for a brief period.

Are there some extended examples? I&#x27;m not quite sure whether this is closer to JQuery UI (i.e. some widgets for normal web pages) or ExtJS (desktop-like Intranet apps). Looking at documentation for e.g. the DataTable, it seems it&#x27;s closer to the former. (Where I wouldn&#x27;t be looking at YUI3 right now, as compared to e.g. Angular or Ember. I would be &quot;in the market&quot; for a decent enough ExtJS replacement though...)

I&#x27;ve never used seriously used YUI, but this actually seems like a really nice library. I&#x27;m impressed with the breadth of it. The Rosetta Stone is also a great idea which really takes away a lot of the fears of using a different library.

The breadth of this library is really remarkable. It feels slow, though.<p>I think people underestimate the importance of a snappy fast interface. We use bootstrap + handlebars and get really fast response, at the cost of having to build a lot ourselves.

3 years back, when we had to use it with Liferay, the experience wasn&#x27;t really great. Hope it has improved now; need to check.