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Suggestion: Components that mimics MAUI XAML controls
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the problem.
If you're a mobil XF/MAUI developer that wants to get started with Blazor, you need to learn HTML/CSS. Coming from XAML with all it's Grids, Stacklayouts, HorizontalOption properties, Margin properties, and the like, you now need to think in terms of Div's that adorned with the proper CSS to give you the same thing.
But what if there's was a component kit that resembled the XAML you're used to? What if there was components with parameters that sort of felt the same way, and worked the same way? Just to get you started?
I don't think there's anything like this out there, where it's all about data grids, charts and what's not.
Describe the solution you'd like
Components with parameters that makes XF/Maui developers feel at home, and be immediately productive. Layouts, CollectionViews, etc.
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@timahrentlov thanks for submitting this issue. this is an exciting idea to have XAML counterpart components in the blazor area too, but in the web world, it's a bad practice to have layout elements since generating the layout is a CSS job and not an HTML task. HTML is there only to generate the structure and configuring the layout is not a structuring task. Although the reasoning behind your request is rational and acceptable, I'll discuss this request with our team and will be back with the result.
In effect, what I am suggesting is a componentized design framework. Something that is for Blazor what TailwindCss is for HTML. It's not about doing away with CSS. It's about harnessing it. Abstracting it. It's all about productivity. And just as with Tailwindcss, the developer would be free to pull out their own CSS at every line, and bitfoundation would be free to make money on something similar to TailwindUI.
Theres currently no such thing out there (if there is, please point me in that direction!). There are many components doing some fancy stuff, that's only used once in a blue moon. Theres no component design systems doing the day-to-day bread'n'butter stuff, that's needed to truly boost productivity.
Of course, it does not have to be linked to MAUI XAML controls. It could also be Flutter widgets. But putting it close to a known UI design system, would accelerate the adoption IMO.
This is what I talked about, in web world it's a bad practice to have a component that applies a layout. for example a StackLayout component like in XAML. It's not a good practice to have a component that enables a specific layout, you could have a library consisting a set of predefined layout as CSS classes, but not a component like <StackLayout>...</StackLayout>.
Although, We could try to develop such components because of reasons you described, but it's generally a bad practice in web.
Anyway, the good news is that we are investigating adding a new project to the bit platform to develop these bad practiced but somehow required components under an Extended program. this project's name is discussed to be something like Bit.BlazorUI.Extended or Bit.BlazorUI.Extensions or Bit.BlazorUI.Extras or ... .