Case Study: Lucentum, creating our own React component library

About a year ago, we faced the challenge of creating a whole new React ui-kit with a completely custom look & feel to unify the styles of all the web apps for some public European institution. What challenges did we face? How did we overcome them?
How have we contributed to the React community? This is the study case of Lucentum: the first (but not last) React component library born and raised in Alicante!

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1. September 2017
   Case sudy: Lucentum,
   creating our own React
   component library
   Flavio Corpa
   

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2. Thanks to our sponsors!
   

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4. Have you ever developed your
   own React component library
   *completely* from scratch?
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5. Why “lucentum”?
   

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7. Initial Stack
   

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11. The Block Component
    

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15. The Icons ⬅↗
    

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19. Whom of you have ever
    used classnames?
    *
    

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23. Introducing react-css-props
    

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28. The Button
    

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33. The DatePicker
    

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35. react-dates
    

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37. The Language
    Component 345
    

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39. react-intl
    

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41. The Select / Autocomplete /
    Typeahead / Magic ✨
    

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45. “Abstractions are good,
    but not always!”
    

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46. The (stupid) Map
    

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48. 1.073,7K
    (gzipped: 321,7K)
    

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49. react-simple-maps
    

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50. @zcreativelabs 9
    205,7K (gzipped: 63K)
    

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51. Adding Flow ⚡
    

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53. Theming ;
    

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59. — Linus Torvalds
    “Talk is cheap.
    SHOW ME THE CODE.”
    

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60. Open Source?
    

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61. Open Source
    
    

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63. @FlavioCorpa
    kutyel
    

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