🧪 Experimenting with Chakra

28th February 2021

• Installed Chakra on a spike branch
• Set up a theme defaulting to dark mode
• Looking at ways to rewrite our existing layout the "Chakra Way"

I'm still feeling into this approach of using a design library. I'm trying to get a sense of the cost/benefit compared to using straight module SCSS. Our current approach is already heading in a good direction (extracted vars for common colours and the like). I think Chakra could help us think about design at a higher level, though. Instead of thinking about how to implement a particular layout using CSS, just pick a Chakra component off the shelf and away you go.

It adds some more moving parts and thus more complexity, but it has the potential to systematise our design ... TBC