Juice Is Becoming a Design Engine
I've spent a lot of the Road To KiwiEngine series talking about architecture from thirty thousand feet. Systems. Abstractions. Boundaries. Intent. Configuration. Framework design. But KiwiEngine is becoming more of an actual engine because the individual pieces underneath it are becoming more capable. So I want to spend the next several posts looking at those pieces individually. And there's…
The Juice library is evolving into a more robust design engine, focusing on intent rather than just shortening CSS. Its creators aim to express common design intentions directly in markup, rather than replacing or reinventing CSS. Juice has a clear boundary between what it handles and what CSS should manage. It offers good defaults for responsive behaviors, allowing developers to override these defaults when necessary.
Recently, Juice has become configuration-driven, consuming project design tokens and generating stylesheets. However, the generated CSS remains standard CSS, ensuring compatibility with browsers. The development team sees Juice as transitioning from a styling library to a small design engine. This engine takes project configuration, design tokens, and attribute-based intent to produce consistent styling behavior throughout an application.
Version 1.0 is about defining Juice's clear responsibilities, rather than maximizing its capabilities.
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