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Performative-UI is a React component library that offers design tropes, drawing mixed reactions. Some users see it as a helpful tool, while others compare it to Bootstrap or criticize its design quality.

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  • Some users find it useful for quick, pleasant designs.
  • Others compare it to Bootstrap or criticize its aesthetic.
  • Several comments express humor or indifference.
“Yawn. This is just bootstrap all over again.”
— marknutter
“Neat, opened an issue there for a finicky bit of code.”
— utopiah

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  • Adding github link for those who want to use it (I do): https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI
    by grassfedgeek
  • I get the whole trope thing and maybe I'm just an old man but I still am kinda impressed when Claude sh*ts out this type of UI 100 times faster than I ever could. It might also be that I never could have made UI even of this quality before AI. (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)
    by wuliwong
  • “TokenStream – Server-sent events (SSE) were added to the HTML5 spec in 2008 but never used until 2025.”

    I remember chunked transfer encoding shipped in 1997. It's been possible since then to readily and easily stream bytes of text or chunks of html the way everyone sees LLMs do today.

    I used this to write a web based telnet client in 1997, and later a text moo / chat for the web. In both cases used a frameset so your line to send was at bottom of screen, the incoming lines were server-sent as things happened server side, and scrolled the client as new lines came in.

    There were other things you could abuse before that, but less reliable.

    But yeah, talk about things nobody used....

    by Terretta
  • These all look very professional for (basically) a parody library
    by tfitz237
  • The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.
    by padolsey
  • I love how this is both hilarious and extremely well made. Great job!

    And I'm gonna be honest, I kind of want to use a few of these components for real (the ASCII art is fantastic).

    by prplfsh
  • The funny thing is, the techniques shown here are the ones that were once considered something only advanced front-end developers or publishers could do. Seeing that a former symbol of skill has now become a subject of satire makes me think that what we call 'high-level' ultimately comes from what others can't do. I personally never even thought about how to implement ASCII art animation.
    by jdw64
  • I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it.

    It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.

    by avaer

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