Design Principles

Chakra UI Vue is established on principles that keep its components fairly consistent. Understanding these concepts will help you better contribute to Chakra UI Vue.

To learn more about Chakra UI Vue, see the Why Chakra UI page.

Our goal is to design simple, composable components that cater to real-life UI design problems. In order to do that, we developed a set of principles that help us always be on that path.

• Style Props: All component styles can be overridden or extended via style props to reduce the use of inline styles. You can also compose new components by extending the CBox or CPseudoBox components.

• Simplicity: Strive to keep the component API fairly simple and show real world scenarios of using the component.

• Composition: Break down components into smaller parts with minimal props to keep complexity low, and compose them together. This will ensure that the styles and functionality are flexible and extensible.

• Accessibility: When creating a component, keep accessibility top of mind. This includes keyboard navigation, focus management, color contrast, voice over, and the correct aria-* attributes.

• Dark Mode: Try to make components dark mode compatible. The CColorModeProvider component provides the $chakraColorMode value that can be injected into your components to handle styling for different color modes. Learn more about Dark mode

• Naming Props: We all know naming is the hardest thing in this industry. Generally, ensure a prop name is indicative of what it does. Boolean props should be named using auxiliary verbs such as does, has, is and should. For example, CButton uses isDisabled, isLoading, etc.