Varya Stepanova

Design systems bridge the gap between designers and developers, communicate shared practices to all the company levels and significantly decrease production costs. We all have heard this but how to achieve that in practice?

React ecosystem and community already provide a lot of efficient open source tools which can be used for building your design system infrastructure. With them, you can have the most automated development process, high-level interactive documentation for the libraries in your system and support contribution practices within your organisation.

This practical guide shows how to apply existing development tools to your system and what is the value you can get.

2019

React Finland

A practical guide to building your design system infrastructure

The best way to study a new development approach is to do it in practice. But good projects built with modern technologies most often require developers with experience in these technologies. One of the options to get this is a side project. What can it be in React?

Varya will show how to generate a multilingual static website using Metalsmith, React and other modern technologies and tools. For over a year, she has been using this stack to build her personal blog and it turned out to be expressive, fast and convenient. After all, it’s our beloved React.