Microsoft renamed UI Fabric to Fluent UI

by ddos ·

Microsoft previously announced its own set of UI frameworks called UI Fabric, which developers can use to achieve a cross-platform Fluent experience.

The UI Fabric framework supports Web, iOS, Android, and other platforms. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PowerBI teams are currently using UI Fabric.

Today, Microsoft announces the rename of UI Fabric to Fluent UI. At the same time, Microsoft also announced that it will merge Fabric and Stardust, two network engineering frameworks. Eventually, the merged project will be uploaded to Github under the name of Fluent UI.

Microsoft plans to release a major update to Fluent UI this summer. Here are some of the content:

  • Improve runtime performance through styling optimizations. We’re evaluating how we can reduce css-in-js style calculation overhead to improve rendering performance. 
  • Improve flexibility and composition of components. Leverage React hooks and function components, along side API surface improvements, to give developers more composition options. 
  • Provide a more flexible, powerful theming system. Extend our list of design tokens and improve our theming tooling to apply your design. 
  • Eliminate deprecated React API usage. This enables partners to test React concurrent mode rendering, which allows rendering to be interruptible reducing how much the UI thread is blocked during large updates. 

Tags: Microsoft Fluent UI