Delivering our packages

Hello everyone, and thank you for taking the time to check out our latest update. Since our last post, we’ve been working to share more of the (Javascript) collateral we’ve built up in our Blueprint project as npm packages, so people can pick and choose the utilities that they need in their projects, as well as benefit from updates we make after their project has been forked.

Headlines:

• Our new @krakentech/blueprint-onboarding package contains the fabulous form wizard utility, previously housed by the Coral team. There are some shiny new demos in our docs.
• We have released consumption charts using Coral charts in our @krakentech/blueprint-utils package! This is huge for us and something we hope will be really useful in lots of projects. Even shinier demos available here.

We’re very excited about these releases because they feed into one of our biggest goals as a project: to release whole customer features directly from Blueprint for use in NextJS React applications. We want this to be the first choice of any Kraken backed project using our stack: to be installing features directly from our packages before they build their own.

We think this will:

• Reduce mental load when it comes to developing features. We believe there is nothing like a working example to help install confidence, examine edge cases and build understanding of a feature.
• Improve the experience of people using Blueprint as a base project. If projects retain elements of a Blueprint framework, we can offer enhancements and fixes after projects are forked.

That’s all for now, we’ll be back next month!