Tools
There are many amazing tools for building things on the web. Here are a few I have found handy in building this design system along with other projects.
Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare does all kinds of really powerful development things, but for me, Cloudflare Pages is a very handy way to update a static site by pushing updates to a repository.
Eleventy
Eleventy is (was?) the handy simple static site generator that powers this very site. It’s still around, but it’s becoming Build Awesome. It’s very fast, pretty simple to implement, and just works without a bunch of fuss. It has also joined forces with …
Font Awesome
Font Awesome is generally the first place I look for icons when starting on new projects. I have supported several of their Kickstarter projects, including their most recent (Build Awesome and Web Awesome before it) even though I’m building my own design system.
Squoosh
A handy web-based tool for optimizing images for the web. On my local computer, I also use Image Optim when I want to optimize a bunch of files at once and just have them get optimized in place.
SVGOMG
Whenever I need to use an SVG for any project, I always take the time to optimize it using SVGOMG. Created and maintained by Jake Archibald.