Previewing AlloyUI, a YUI 3-based Component Library from Liferay

March 15, 2010 at 2:53 pm by Eric Miraglia | In Development | 10 Comments

Nate Cavanaugh and Eduardo Lundgren of Liferay have spent the last six months building out a new widget library, AlloyUI, based on YUI 3. Nate wrote about the project recently on his Liferay blog. AlloyUI is available as a preview release today and early April is the GA release target.

AlloyUI comprises a wide array of components — more than 60 in all — that range from utilities to sugar layers to full-blown UI widgets. All of Alloy’s component’s are built on YUI 3; some of the widgets are based to some degree on YUI 2. All are free to use under an LGPL license. Nate and Eduardo intend to share AlloyUI components on the YUI 3 Gallery, making them as easy to use as any YUI 3, YUI 2, or other Gallery module; they hope to have more news on that effort soon.

AlloyUI components include:

AutoComplete
Calendar
Charts
ColorPicker
Dialog
Image Gallery
Paginator
Rating
Resize
Sortable
Tabs
TextBox List

Check out their demos page to explore all of these and many others.

If you’re pinching yourself and asking, “Are Nate, Eduardo and Liferay contributing dozens of components into the YUI ecosystem, core UI and utility elements that I can use in my everyday development?”, the answer is yes…that’s pretty much what they’re doing. Although we’ve known about the project since late last year, we had the chance to visit with Nate and Eduardo at Yahoo! today and we’re extremely impressed with the work they’ve done.

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Nice job, Nate & Eduardo!

Comment by Alice — March 15, 2010 #
Is it just me or do the demos freeze for several seconds before you can do anything with them?
I’ve tried several demos, and they all do it for me. Seems some optimization is needed.

Comment by Allan Ebdrup — March 16, 2010 #
Parabens Eduardo e Nate. Prossiga em seu caminho, fazendo seus sonhos virarem realidade.

Comment by Ronaldo Lundgren — March 16, 2010 #
Congratulations, I’m proud of you Braeker

Comment by Bodinho — March 16, 2010 #
@Allan Ebdrup: Yup, here it takes about 20 seconds to load all the javascript/css .. for example the Alloy – LiveSearch: 55 HTTPrequests, the Horror!

Comment by Klaas Landsman — March 16, 2010 #
@Allan and Klaas,
We actually put the website up just to be able to share with a much smaller audience than what we’ve been experiencing.

We were pretty unprepared for the amount of interest and visibility that we’ve received. We’re not taking advantage of combo handling or the YUI CDN, but we’re planning on fixing that soon.
We’re grateful for the amount of feedback we’ve received and are excited to go forward.

Thanks guys,

Comment by Nate Cavanaugh — March 16, 2010 #
Parabéns e que continues buscando sempre tornar os seus sonhos realidade. Maínha está muito feliz e só tem que agradecer a Deus, pois Ele tem ouvido as orações que ela faz. Claro que eu, sua irmã, também estou feliz.
I´M PROUD TO BE YOUR SISTER!!!!

Comment by Heloiza e Elizabeth Lundgren — March 16, 2010 #
Congratulations :)

Comment by Bavithra Rajendran — March 16, 2010 #
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