Release of Lightning UI Components with Theming (2.0)!

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:rocket: The official release of Lightning-UI-Components 2.0 with Theming is ready! :rocket:

Lightning-UI-Components (LUI) is an open source library of shareable LightningJS components to aid in application development. The library was built and is maintained by the Experience Design Engineering team at Comcast NBCUniversal.

The team presented LUI 2.0 during an RDK Webinar back in January. If you did not see the presentation, please check back soon as links to the videos will be provided and documentation will be added to the LightningJS website.

Otherwise, please see our live Storybook and review our documentation.

Here is an overview of what’s new:

More Components

  • Over 60 Components
  • 11 Helpful Mixins

Theming

  • Each component has been revamped to allow for easy style-swapping (similar to CSS) via global theme files.
  • Extensions
  • Sub-Theming

TypeScript Support

  • Each component has a TS definition file to help streamline integrations with TS projects.
  • This leverages the latest TS updates to Lightning Core.

Test Utils

  • @lightningjs/ui-components-test-utils
  • This is a separate package with utilities we found helpful in our own Jest unit testing that you can leverage.
  • This includes integrations with the global context and theming for LUI2.

Next Steps:

  • More example themes
  • Demo Application
  • Theme Validation
  • Automation Testing
  • Lightning Storybook Integration Overhaul
  • Extensions (for theming)
  • Full-Page Templates
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This component library is incredible!

But we are developing for modern SmartTV and must support LG magic remote (aka mouse hover/click).

Is it possible that mouse and touch support will be added at some point to Lightning UI components library?

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At some point that will need to be added as we’ll also need to support LG magic remote, but it maybe months ahead. I wonder what the performance overhead is to remove the need for collision flag…

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Thanks @grobitto!

Touch support or the LG Magic Remote isn’t currently on the LUI roadmap, though I don’t actually think anything special would need to be added to LUI, that would probably be on the Lightning side. I know some POCs have been built for interacting with Lightning apps on a touch screen, but to @chiefcll’s point, there are probably some performance implications to consider.

We do welcome contributions, so if you are able to experiment and do some testing, we can definitely collaborate! :slight_smile: