TermCraft conventionFoundational
Component Library
The set of prebuilt components you can use.
Definition
The implemented collection of reusable components, which is one part of a design system rather than the whole of it.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
The set of prebuilt components you can use.
Example
A library of forty React components. Without documentation and governance it is a library, not a system.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- Component API DesignDesign system
- Design System DocumentationDesign system
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.