Exadel Smart Library
Exadel Smart Library (ESL) is an open-source lightweight and flexible UI component library based on web components.
Increase your site’s performance by building UX models with custom components from our library.
The ESL web UI components library is compatible with any framework, which makes ESL ideal for projects regardless of
their tech stack.
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Overview
Exadel Smart Library, or ESL for short, is a free web UI components library that reduces routine tasks and lets
you efficiently create websites with multiple web components at hand.
When you’re deciding which is the best UI component library for your site, keep in mind that it should be compatible
with other libraries and frameworks — like ESL is!
ESL UI component library allows you to access a toolkit full of reusable components.
You can utilize these web components to complement projects or build your infrastructure from the ground up using
ESL alone. Our web UI components library is high-quality, so the only thing you’ll have to focus on is applying styles
to meet your project needs.
ESL is based solely on Web API and ECMAScript 6 features, which let our web UI components library work
well across all modern browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Edge.
ESL can also work on IE11 when the whole list of polyfills is provided (see Browser support & Polyfills for more details).
Library Structure
While building the UI component library, we included components, form components, and utilities that solve complex
project architecture problems and comply with the DRY principle.
See the rundown of web components and read the specs.
Library Core
With our UI component library, you get flexible syntax sugar meant for building on top of basic components and
controlling their life cycle.
Components
Our HTML UI component library provides you with all the elements you’ll need to construct UX modules
with excellent performance.
Installation Guide
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Preconditions:
- Make sure you have all needed polyfills to support browsers from your browser-support list.
See Browser support & Polyfills for details.
- Use a bundler to build your project. Currently, only ES6 modules are available for consumption.
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Install esl npm dependency:
npm i @exadel/esl --save
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Import Components/Modules you need:
import '@exadel/esl/modules/esl-component/core';
core
module entry usually represents main part of the module;- include optional sub-features directly. See component's documentation for details.
import '@exadel/esl/modules/esl-media/providers/iframe-provider';
- Some modules contain cumulative
all
entries. - Styles are distributed in two versions:
- 'ready to use'
core.css
or core.less
- mixin version
core.mixin.less
for custom tagname definition
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[Optional] Setup environment configuration, e.g. custom screen breakpoints:
import {ESLScreenBreakpoints} from '@exadel/esl/modules/esl-media-query/core';
ESLScreenBreakpoints.addCustomBreakpoint('XS', 1, 800);
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Register web components via register
static method call:
ESLImage.register();
You can pass custom tag name to 'register' function, but use this option only in an exceptional situation.
Development Information for Contributors
If you are part of ESL team or want to contribute to the project,
you can find useful information about the project processes and agreements here:
ESL Core Team
People who architect, maintain, and keep the idea of the ESL
ESL Contributors:
People who are actively contributing to the ESL
Exadel, Inc.