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frend / frend.co

frend.co

Frend — A collection of accessible, modern front-end components.

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
624GitHub stars
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Frend — A collection of accessible, modern front-end components.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-02-24 14:49:25 UTC to 2016-05-16 12:42:15 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 222016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 42016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsMay 16

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Feb 222016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 292016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 72016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 142016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 212016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 282016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 42016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 112016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 182016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 252016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC000
May 22016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC000
May 92016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC000
May 162016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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A couple of points we can address here: Agree on the NodeList.prototype reassign - not a well informed decision (see source comments around its inclusion). We think it's worth correcting: https://github.com/frend/frend.co/issues/64 Fully aware of the less-than-ideal DOM traversal in places - this is ripe for improvement: https://github.com/frend/frend.co/blob/gh-pages/_components/... Let's shift the focus from code style to getting these components tested and improved for all users.
In Frend – accessible, dependency-free web components
The code style here looks really weird - for example, the 4 space hard tab is a rarity with JS: https://github.com/frend/frend.co/blob/gh-pages/_components/... . Lot of rough edges there, such as not making use of Array.from(nodeList).forEach instead of brute forcing on the prototype. There's also some nasty DOM traversal as well in some of these components. It should also be noted that these aren't web components in the Web Components sense - the title is very misleading. These are just vanilla components.
In Frend – accessible, dependency-free web components
We've been building a collection of front-end components with a focus on accessibility and modern standards, and are keen to collaborate with more developers. The purpose of Frend is to not only offer these components for use in projects, but to also discuss the features that make them accessible. We'd like to continually improve upon them, to ensure they're predictable and supporting assistive technologies in all the ways they should. Read more about the project on the website: http://frend.co/about/ Contributions are welcome via the GitHub repo: https://github.com/frend/frend.co
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