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
