Why developers like Evergreen

What is Evergreen?

Evergreen is a pragmatic UI kit for building evolving products on the web. It is built and maintained open-source by Segment.

Evergreen is a tool in the JavaScript Framework Components category of a tech stack.

Evergreen is an open source tool with 12.4K GitHub stars and 829 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Evergreen's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Evergreen?

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Decisions about Evergreen

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Evergreen in their tech stack.

Adebayo Akinlaja

Engineering Manager at Andela · Oct 15, 2019 | 30 upvotes · 3.4M views

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Bit

React

Material-UI

I picked up an idea to develop and it was no brainer I had to go with React for the frontend. I was faced with challenges when it came to what component framework to use. I had worked extensively with Material-UI but I needed something different that would offer me wider range of well customized components (I became pretty slow at styling). I brought in Evergreen after several sampling and reads online but again, after several prototype development against Evergreen—since I was using TypeScript and I had to import custom Type, it felt exhaustive. After I validated Evergreen with the designs of the idea I was developing, I also noticed I might have to do a lot of styling. I later stumbled on Material Kit, the one specifically made for React . It was promising with beautifully crafted components, most of which fits into the designs pages I had on ground.

A major problem of Material Kit for me is it isn't written in TypeScript and there isn't any plans to support its TypeScript version. I rolled up my sleeve and started converting their components to TypeScript and if you'll ask me, I am still on it.

In summary, I used the Create React App with TypeScript support and I am spending some time converting Material Kit to TypeScript before I start developing against it. All of these components are going to be hosted on Bit.

If you feel I am crazy or I have gotten something wrong, I'll be willing to listen to your opinion. Also, if you want to have a share of whatever TypeScript version of Material Kit I end up coming up with, let me know.

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Evergreen Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Evergreen?

Timely

It is a new time tracking app for iOS and the Web that promises to do away with the pain of filling out timesheets and other related paperwork by allowing users to schedule how time will be spent in advance. The definitive automatic time tracking tool for improving productivity and profitability.

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

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