Awesome, thanks for the update!
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 01:27 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > FYI, I'm resuming the work on the UI, I have the first components > working with the backend. > I will probably submit a draft PR on polaris-tools as a discussion base. > > Stay tuned ;) > > Regards > JB > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > In order to grow our community, I think there's a space where we could > > do better work: onboarding of new users. > > New users are looking for Polaris to be easy to start with and easy to > use. > > > > We already do great improvements here, especially, I strongly believe > > that starting from the 0.10.0-beta-incubating release (and the next > > releases), we will have new users thanks to the binary distributions. > > > > And so, the onboarding and ease of use becomes even more important for > > these new users. > > For onboarding, documentation is crucial. I know we already have > > effort on the documentation, a focus on onboarding is welcome (started > > guide, curl example, engines examples, ...). > > > > Also, the CLI is helping for the onboard/bootstrap. > > > > For both onboard and ease of use, I would like to propose Polaris UI. > > I started to work on a Polaris UI. You can see the first screenshots > here: > > > > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/14q47kfdpWNvxYcv723xUqnBdwBFJ9qCx/view?usp=sharing > > > > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-TckYYif4Jz0dnHc7oRikgXx6i3awKKL/view?usp=sharing > > > > It uses RestJS (https://react.dev/) and Ant Design > > (https://ant.design/) frameworks, using MIT license (which is Category > > A from The ASF standpoint). > > I'm currently build static web app (using yarn or npm). It means that: > > - the UI can be "embedded" in the Polaris server (just pure > > HTML/JavaScript resources basically) > > - the UI can run "standalone" and connect to Polaris server instances. > > About that, I plan to add an item in the settings menu to be able to > > configure multiplace Polaris server instances. > > > > To be clear, it's certainly a "non production" audience that is gonna > > use this UI (new users, experiment, ...) but valuable overall. > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > Regards > > JB >
