One Library to Rule Them All: Creating a shared component library

[bobbyoliveri]

Is it possible to create a component library that would work for multiple installations? An example use case would be setting up a design system online at design.site.com where the component library lived, but changes to that library not only updating the components on that installation, but also on site.com (and theoretically other installations). Would this have to be done with a multisite setup, or is there another way to wire components between different Cornerstone installations?

How is ThemeCo’s cloud library maintained and connected? Is there a possible solution there?

[prakash_s]

Hello @bobbyoliveri,

Thanks for writing to us.

You can export it as a template and then import the template file to your different installation using the template manager. In case you have not seen the template document please have a look at it.

Template Manager | Themeco Docs

Hope it helps
Thanks

[JvP]

I think that manual process is what he’s trying to avoid. A centrally managed asset library has been talked about before, and the devs were positive about the idea.

Check out these threads:

Feature request: an enhanced Design Cloud

In principle Design Cloud is great, however it’s currently a limited and closed library of templates. I have several ideas for Design Cloud that would make it much more useful and give us more control over it. The ability to put our own sites, headers, presets, content, footers, and layouts in there and make those available to other sites linked to our Themeco account with a single click. The ability to create categories and assign those to our sites, headers, presets, etc. For example, I…

Upcoming Design Cloud changes

From the Februari status update: What was set to be the next cycle (after Components and Parameters) brings some much needed improvements to templating and Design Cloud, and we are leaning towards getting those in now. I’m curious, does that include some of the features from this thread? Or what kind of changes can we expect for Design Cloud?

[marc_a]

Hey @JvP

Thanks for chiming in. The enhanced design cloud is not yet on our roadmap, I’ll bump the feature request tracker so that our development team can check on it.

[JvP]

Thanks @marc_a

[kyle]

This is very much on our radar, especially as it relates to our AI project which is well underway.

[JvP]

That’s great news, thanks @kyle!

[tristup]

Hi @JvP,

You are most welcome.