Microsoft's reusable component framework for Yammer.com

by luisrudge on 11/6/2017, 1:01:41 PM with 31 comments

  • by sickcodebruh on 11/6/2017, 2:12:00 PM

    Regardless of what you might think about Yammer's UI, a repo full of tested React components written in TypeScript is very valuable as a reference.

  • by youdontknowtho on 11/6/2017, 1:51:28 PM

    I've always liked the hover cards that they use on Yammer, the examples of those are pretty sweet.

    It's pretty amazing that even this has generated negative comments. This is one of the reasons why I don't feel like I should ever open source any code. Anything I ever release would be something that was of use to me and maybe a few other people. Would I have to actively use and support it for the rest of my life to be "right"? I wonder how many of you complaining actually never open source anything while using lots of it.

    I guess it's lame to complain about negative comments on the internet, but hacker news is supposed to be different. Open source from Google? That's fantastic. Open Source from Intel, Facebook, Yahoo, or HP? Those are OK too. Open source from Microsoft? Better make sure you've said something negative to make sure that your fan boy card doesn't get pulled.

  • by unindented on 11/6/2017, 6:37:15 PM

    Hey, I work on Yammer, and I'm one of the contributors to this project. YamUI is a cross-team effort between our Design and Frontend teams to create drop-in components for Yammer.com that have strictly-enforced style and behavior. As @gregod said, it is based on Office's awesome Fabric project: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-ui-fabric-react/

    The project is just us working in the open. We're not trying to push this as a new component framework for others to use, and we probably don't have the bandwidth to support external consumers, but we're happy if people can learn from it.

  • by deburo on 11/6/2017, 3:01:15 PM

    Did you guys notice that upon returning from a link to yammer to the github page via the back button, a bunch of cards are visible until you scroll?

  • by mikl on 11/6/2017, 1:43:20 PM

    Yammer.com? Now there’s an unhelpful endorsement. It’s been a while since I used Yammer, but I remember its UI as pretty damn awful.

  • by koalalorenzo on 11/6/2017, 1:51:23 PM

    So reusable components from a crappy UI! Thank you Microsoft :~D

    JK

  • by mariusmg on 11/6/2017, 3:09:23 PM

    Well i guess it's nice they open source it but in reality nobody will bother with it. Bootstrap is where the action is these days.