Utopia UI

UI Framework for Real-Life-Networking-Apps

Real change happens in real life when we meet in person and connect as local communities manifesting their ideas with the earth. When we help each other to step out of capitalism and individualism and start building common infrastructure to meet human needs in harmony with Mother Earth.

This is why Utopia UI (https://github.com/utopia-os/utopia-ui), a UI kit for minimalistic, fast, intuitive and mobile-first map apps exist as a tools for local connection and decentralized networking. It can work with any backend or p2p database and any kind of data structure.

Mission

Utopia UIs mission is to provide open source building blocks to create beautiful applications with a focus on real life impact, local communities and gamification.

The building blocks are designed to allow different networks and communities to assemble their map and app for their specific needs and purpose.

Utopia Game is the first app made with Utopia UI. It is an attempt to use gamification to get users to take action and make the map even more alive. Check it out at utopia-game.org or see the code in the repository

Features

• Interactive Component Map with customizable Layers (like Projects, Event, People)
• Flexible API-Interface to make it work with every backend or p2p database
• Create, Update, Delete Items
• User Authentification API-Interface
• User Profiles
• App Shell

Background

In early 2021, we developed a small Prototyp which can be found @ new.docutopia.de. This map can be edited freely. You can register to create an account and place them on the map. We tested it with a couple of users and got some very positiv feedback. Some of them are still using it.

Since these days we got in contact with many other projects with focus of real life transformation and mapping for change. But our quick and dirty spaghetti code was hard to adapt to the special requirements of different communities and projects.

That's why we want to provide with Utopia UI this functionality (and much more) as easy to adapt building blocks. It is a full rewrite as a React Component Library.

Getting Started

install via npm

 npm install utopia-ui

Map Component

The map shows various Layers (places, events, profiles ...) of Irems at their respective position whith nice and informative Popups.

Tags, colors and clusters help to retain the overview.

use the Map UI Component

import { UtopiaMap, Layer, Tags } from 'utopia-ui'

      <UtopiaMap zoom={5} height='calc(100vh - 64px)' width="100%">
        <Layer
          name='events'
          menuIcon='CalendarIcon'
          menuText='add new event'
          menuColor='#f9a825'
          markerIcon='calendar-days-solid'
          markerShape='square'
          markerDefaultColor='#777'
          data={events} />
        <Layer
          name='places'
          menuIcon='MapPinIcon'
          menuText='add new place'
          menuColor='#2E7D32'
          markerIcon='circle-solid'
          markerShape='circle'
          markerDefaultColor='#777'
          data={places} />
        <Tags data={tags}></Tags>
      </UtopiaMap>

You can find some Sample Data (places, events, tags) for test in the SamleData/ folder

Options

Option	Type	Default	Required	Description
height	string	'400px'	No	height of the map
width	string	'100vw'	No	width of the map
center	LatLng	[50.6, 9.5]	No	initial map position
zoom	number	10	No	initial zoom level

Join the community

This Library is in early alpha stage. You are very welcome to participate in the development

We are looking for Web Developer, UX Designer, Community Manager, Visionaries, Artists, etc. who like to support this Vision.

https://t.me/utopiaOS