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subform-layout
OPEN SOURCE2018–2018
lynaghk / subform-layout

subform-layout

Embeddable layout engine. Like flexbox, but with fewer concepts, applied uniformly.

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What it is

Embeddable layout engine. Like flexbox, but with fewer concepts, applied uniformly.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:28:18 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-03-07 22:23:55 UTC to 2018-03-08 13:18:07 UTC.

012018-03-07 22:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-07 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 7, 22:002018-03-07 23:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 01:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 02:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-03-08 03:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-03-08 04:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-03-08 05:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 8, 05:002018-03-08 06:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 07:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 08:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 09:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 10:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 11:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 12:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-08 13:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-08 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 8, 13:00

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

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Mar 7, 22:002018-03-07 22:00:00 UTC2018-03-07 23:00:00 UTC101
Mar 7, 23:002018-03-07 23:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 00:002018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 01:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 01:002018-03-08 01:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 02:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 02:002018-03-08 02:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 03:00:00 UTC101
Mar 8, 03:002018-03-08 03:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 04:00:00 UTC101
Mar 8, 04:002018-03-08 04:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 05:00:00 UTC101
Mar 8, 05:002018-03-08 05:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 06:002018-03-08 06:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 07:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 07:002018-03-08 07:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 08:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 08:002018-03-08 08:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 09:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 09:002018-03-08 09:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 10:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 10:002018-03-08 10:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 11:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 11:002018-03-08 11:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 12:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 12:002018-03-08 12:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 13:00:00 UTC000
Mar 8, 13:002018-03-08 13:00:00 UTC2018-03-08 14:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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RyLuke·Mar 8, 2018
The demos and engine are free to use and modify for non-commercial use right now. The repo is here: https://github.com/lynaghk/subform-layout The happy path issue is definitely one of the big pain points in the "designer throws mockups over the wall" workflow. Simulation of the production medium in the visual design tool can help a bit, but the real solution is to get designers working in the production medium. That's easier said than done, of course. (And ultimately more of an organizational/practice issue than a tooling one.)
In Show HN: Subform, a UI layout tool

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