Acknowledgements
zits/ui and the Navius brain are inspired by and stand on the shoulders of the projects below. We owe them the ideas (the patterns, contracts, and tooling) that made this possible, and we are grateful.
Prior art
- Base UI
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The headless-primitive API, component anatomy, and discrete
data-*state and keyboard contracts that the Navius brain mirrors 1:1 for Blazor: the behavioural spec the styled helm is built to reproduce, so its components feel familiar from the first keystroke. - Radix UI
- For making the case that accessible behaviour belongs in headless primitives: the original model Navius was first built against, before the re-target to Base UI.
- shadcn/ui
- For the copy-paste distribution model and the idea that a styled component you own beats a black-box dependency. The styled helm and its CLI-plus-registry workflow follow that lead.
- spartan/ui
- For the brain / helm split (a headless behaviour layer with a separate styled layer on top), which is the architecture Navius and zits/ui are built around.
- TailwindMerge.NET & TailwindVariants.NET
- For the .NET class-merge and variant tooling that lets the helm resolve conflicting Tailwind utilities and express component variants cleanly in C#.
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