Themesberg update: we're sponsoring Bootstrap, progress on Glassmorphism UI, and a new Figma project

Hello 👋🏻

I hope you had a great weekend! In this email I would like to let you know what we've been doing the past two weeks. By the way, there are almost 4k subscribers to this newsletter. Big thank you for everyone!

Sponsoring Bootstrap on Github

Most of our business as of now is based on the open-source project, called Bootstrap CSS. Initially, we didn't really have any money, but after two years of encouraging growth, we decided to offer sponsorship to the open-source project that defined Themesberg from the beginning.

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We contribute with a monthly $100 to the project through the Open Collective initiative. If you go to the Github page of Bootstrap, you'll see that the Themesberg logo also shows up in the bottom side of the readme file.

Of course, we also built a couple of open-source projects, but I believe that now is also the time to give back.

Progress on Glassmorphism UI

We've been making a lot of progress on the new Glassmorphism UI library by upgrading the styling, working on the documentation, switching FontAwesome icons to SVG powered icons, using the Utility API to create new classes, and of course a lot of new exciting components based on glassmorphism.

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New project in Figma

This may sound like a surprise to many of you, but we're almost ready with a new Figma powered project! We've upgraded our internal workflow to first design projects in Figma, and only then integrate into technologies. Until now, we actually designed and coded at the same time, lol.

I want the project to be a complete surprise, since we'll launch next week, but all I will say is that it's based on a brand new interface, and it is also a lot more enterprise-like compared to our earlier products. There will be a demo version available as well, open-source under the MIT license.

Conclusion

It may seem that development has slowed down here at Themesberg, but that can't be farther from the truth! At the beginning of this year, we changed our strategy to provide less, but higher quality content and projects. At the same time, we're working with 5 developers to integrate our existing themes into exciting technologies, such as Vue.js, Angular, Elixir/Phoenix, Eleventy, and more to follow.

Till next time ✌🏻

Zoltán