brick-design/brick-design
Brick Design
Brick Design is a low-code page builder framework used to create drag-and-drop visual editors that generate production-ready layout and styling code for user interfaces. It functions as a visual layout engine and UI component orchestrator, providing the tools necessary to manage component constraints, nesting rules, and visual property configurations.
The framework includes a dynamic template generator that utilizes logic rendering and expression variables to create reusable, data-driven page templates. It also operates as a multi-device design tool, offering viewport switching and adaptive styles to ensure consistent displays across desktop and mobile screens.
The system covers a broad range of capabilities including design-to-code workflows, responsive layout design, and real-time visual rendering. It manages complex UI hierarchies through coordinate-based snap alignment, state-driven property mapping, and the integration of external component libraries.
Features
- Drag-and-Drop Layout Engines - Ships a layout engine that calculates component positioning and hierarchy for translation into production CSS and HTML.
- Drag-and-Drop Page Builders - Provides a comprehensive visual tool for constructing user interfaces using modular, draggable components.
- Low-Code Development Platforms - Enables the creation of production-ready web pages through visual arrangement and style configuration.
- Data-Driven Page Templates - Includes a utility that uses logic rendering and expression variables to create reusable, data-driven page templates.
- Visual Property Panels - Ships a visual property panel for modifying component data structures and styles with immediate reactive updates.
- Component Orchestration - Manages the placement, configuration, and relationship of components within a visual design environment.
- Design-to-Code Workflows - Facilitates the workflow of converting visual drag-and-drop layouts into functional frontend production code.
- Production-Ready Code Exports - Provides an API to export visual designs into production-ready HTML, CSS, and template formats.
- Expression Evaluators - Provides an engine for resolving dynamic logic and expression variables to render data-driven content in the editor.
- Reactive Visual Previews - Synchronizes property configuration changes to a live preview via a reactive state-driven bridge.
- Layout Engines - Provides a core engine for calculating component geometry and positioning using stream-based and free-form layouts.
- Configuration-Driven Property Mapping - Maps visual configuration inputs to a data model that generates the final production source code.
- Snap Alignment Libraries - Includes libraries for snapping UI elements to guide lines and grid positions during drag-and-drop placement.
- Structural Nesting Constraints - Provides a system for defining valid parent-child relationships to prevent incorrect component nesting.
- Viewport Mode Toggles - Implements viewport mode toggles to switch between desktop and mobile dimensions for responsive design validation.
- Viewport Simulation - Simulates content rendering across different device dimensions to verify and validate responsive layouts.
- Multi-Device Previews - Provides tools for visualizing and validating a single design across multiple device screen dimensions.
- Nested Component Hierarchies - Manages complex UI hierarchies and nesting rules for interactive web elements.
- Nesting Constraint Validations - Implements a configuration map to validate and restrict which components can be nested within others.
- Page Layout Templates - Provides a system for saving and reusing partial or full page layouts to accelerate the design process.
- Responsive Layout Adaptation - Implements mechanisms for adapting layouts based on viewport size to ensure consistent displays across devices.
- Low-Code Frameworks - Visual drag-and-drop frontend framework for rapid application development.
