WVUI
WVUI was a MediaWiki user interface framework in use around 2020–2023. WVUI is deprecated and in maintenance mode. New releases are only published when necessary to fix bugs.[1] WVUI was replaced with Codex, a new component library based on Vue 3.
History
[edit]In 2020 with new technology and architecture requirements and abilities for modern Web, the Foundation began working on new user-interface library based on Vue.js. Read more about the motivations and requirements that lead to Vue.js in the underlying RFC. The initial project and scope was for the Desktop Improvements project. Part of this work was an important user-experience improvement in an high-visibility area, the new TypeaheadSearch component. The first prototypical Vue-based library, WVUI (“Wikimedia Vue UI”), was centered around the goal of bringing this component to production. In parallel, Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) was building their own design system for Wikidata / Wikibase called Wikit.