Lookbook v1.0 🎉

[allmarkedup]

Lookbook v1.0 has just been released with a bunch of new features and a completely rebuilt ViewComponent-based UI which should make new feature development quicker and easier.

Check out the new Lookbook documentation site for details on upgrading and documentation on all the new features.

Got questions or comments about the v1.0.0 release? Post them below or open an issue.

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Frontend changes:

• Completely re-written UI - now built with ViewComponents
• New UI themes and customisation options
• Improved small-screen/mobile view
• Debug menu
• ...and many other small visual and usability improvements

New options for extending Lookbook:

• Define custom tags for preview file annotations
• Create your own tab panels - with complete control over content/layout and access to all Lookbook data
• Use lifecycle hooks to run your own code when Lookbook starts up, when files change or at shutdown

Other changes

• 'Workbench' app for developing Lookbook's UI components in Lookbook
• New Rspec-based test suite and dummy app
• All new documentation site built using Bridgetown

[paulrobertlloyd]

Congratulations, and well done hitting this important milestone!

[allmarkedup]

Thanks @paulrobertlloyd! And hope you are well mate.

1.0 is just a number really but I feel it's a nice way to indicate that the thing you are building is at a stage where people can expect to rely on it. Getting the extension APIs in there and cleaning up the frontend was really important for me to get done before I could think about tagging it v1.0.

Are you using Lookbook currently in any capacity? If so I'd always value any comments/advice/suggestions you might have, as always :-)

[paulrobertlloyd]

I congratulate you on reaching v1.0 partially with a degree of envy as I’m attempting to do the same with my own side project.

I’m not using Lookbook, but have been using ViewComponents extensively in various Rails-based government services, and just generally like to be nosey, you know me 😉 There was at one point an attempt to use this project for the GOV.UK Components gem, but in the end that project took a different route for reasons I forget.

[allmarkedup]

@paulrobertlloyd indiekit looks great! Nice work mate. Looks like a lot of work though, respect for pulling that all together.

Seems like you are chipping away at that 1.0 release as well!

[DRBragg]

Congrats @allmarkedup! This is awesome!

The new docs site looks great and I'm excited to try out the new custom tags feature 😁

[allmarkedup]

@DRBragg awesome - let me know how you get on! Excited to see what people start to use it for 🤓