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Does Indie Hackers use a UI library?

I'm curious, is it all custom design? Or do the icons come from a library?

I've been looking at various UI libraries recently but wondered if Indie Hackers used one. I really like IH's design too!

on May 19, 2020
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    I've settled into Vuetifyjs.com material-based UI for all my projects. The more comfortable I get with it, the easier it is to override and shape things as I need.

    I'm not great at design, so I rely on UI frameworks a lot.

    Most icons I use are from here: https://materialdesignicons.com/

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      Thx, yes, I used Material Icons as they're licensed pretty liberally but was looking for alternatives. :) Iconmonstr looks cool!

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    If the design is not that important, I can easily use any UI framework (Bootstrap, Material ...) and use their icons.
    But for a big project I would start from a low-level lib like tachyons.io, do most of the component myself and use iconmonstr.com
    I haven't done that for colofon.io and I regret it.

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      I'm a React guy so have been using a simple UI lib called Rebass. (Very neat primitives.) Likewise have used Material, etc. but slowly trying other ones like Evergreen which is real nice.

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    Many icons here come from Iconmonstr

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      Nice, will check it out!