Lona alternatives and similar libraries
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Awesome-Design-Tools
The best design tools and plugins for everything ๐ -
R.swift
Strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects -
SwiftGen
The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, โฆ โ Get rid of all String-based APIs! -
Tweaks
An easy way to fine-tune, and adjust parameters for iOS apps in development. -
Xcodes.app
The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode - with a mouse click. -
FBSimulatorControl
idb is a flexible command line interface for automating iOS simulators and devices -
SourceKitten
An adorable little framework and command line tool for interacting with SourceKit. -
GDPerformanceView-Swift
Shows FPS, CPU and memory usage, device model, app and iOS versions above the status bar and report FPS, CPU and memory usage via delegate. -
LicensePlist
A license list generator of all your dependencies for iOS applications -
AppDevKit
AppDevKit is an iOS development library that provides developers with useful features to fulfill their everyday iOS app development needs. -
ThisCouldBeUsButYouPlaying
:black_joker: Generate Swift Playgrounds for any library. -
DBDebugToolkit
Set of easy to use debugging tools for iOS developers & QA engineers. -
iSimulator
iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator, and manage the app installed on the simulator. -
Blade
Better asset workflow for iOS developers. Generate Xcode image catalogs for iOS / OSX app icons, universal images, and more. -
Realm Browser
DEPRECATED - Realm Browser for Mac OS X has been replaced by realm-studio which is cross platform. -
Cookiecutter
A template for new Swift iOS / macOS / tvOS / watchOS Framework project ready with travis-ci, cocoapods, Carthage, SwiftPM and a Readme file -
Swift Package Index
The Swift Package Index is the place to find Swift packages! -
WatchdogInspector
Shows your current framerate (fps) in the status bar of your iOS app -
SuperDelegate
SuperDelegate provides a clean application delegate interface and protects you from bugs in the application lifecycle -
abandoned-strings
Command line program that detects unused resource strings in an iOS or OS X application. -
fastlane-plugin-appicon
Generate required icon sizes and iconset from a master application icon. -
AVXCAssets-Generator
AVXCAssets Generator takes path for your assets images and creates appiconset and imageset for you in just one click -
Shark
Swift CLI for strong-typing images, colors, storyboards, fonts and localizations
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Lona (Developer Preview)
This project is in an early stage and lacks documentation โ however, with some effort, it can be used very effectively. If you're interested in contributing or using it at your company, feel free to open a GitHub issue or get in touch with me on Twitter @dvnabbott. I'm currently supporting a few early adopters.
Airbnb doesn't provide support for this project. The code and automated tests are not at the same degree of technical rigor as other Airbnb projects.
Overview
Lona is a collection of tools for building design systems and using them to generate cross-platform UI code, Sketch files, and other artifacts.
Lona consists primarily of 3 parts:
- Lona Components - A data format,
.component
, for cross-platform components - Lona Studio - A GUI tool for designing
.component
files - Lona Compiler - A CLI tool & API for generating UI code from
.component
files
Why Lona? Read more about challenges with cross-platform design systems at scale, and how Lona solves them [here](./docs/overview/background.md).
Lona Components
A design system is defined in JSON as a collection of:
- Components (can be nested)
- Colors, Text Styles, Gradients, and Shadows
- Data Types
The specification for these files can be found in the [docs](./docs/file-formats/README.md).
Lona Studio
Lona Studio provides a graphical interface for working with .component
files.
Lona Studio is primarily for building component systems, but can also be used for:
- Quickly mocking up new screens from existing components
- Viewing designs with real data from JSON files or APIs
- Experimenting with designs across multiple screen sizes
- Automating design tasks - e.g. localizing screenshots for different languages and exporting hundreds of images
- Working with animations (Lottie) and rendering videos from them
- and more!
If you have Xcode installed, you can try it out by following the [installation instructions](./studio/README.md).
Wondering if this replaces Sketch? Why a native Mac App? I answer some common questions here in the [FAQ](./docs/overview/faq.md).
Lona Compiler
The Lona Compiler converts .component files to UI code for various targets.
Currently, these targets are supported:
- iOS / macOS (Swift)
- React DOM / React Native / React Sketchapp (JavaScript)
Support is planned for:
- Android (Kotlin)
The target with the most features currently is Swift. However, it's still fairly rough. If you want to try it out, check out the [installation instructions](./compiler/core/README.md).
If you're looking for a sample of the generated code, check out [the test cases](./examples/generated/test)
Core Team
- Created by @dvnabbott
- Design tool integrations and infrastructure by @mathieudutour
Contributors
- Lona Compiler development by @outdooricon
- Design & development help by @ryngonzalez
- Gorgeous logo by @pablocar0
- Lona Studio development by Nghia Tran
- Swift code generation help by Laura Skelton
- Lona Compiler development by Jason Zurita