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Welcome to Backlight Documentation
Backlight is a collaborative platform empowering front-end teams to build and ship great Design Systems. Backlight is code-centric but, it embraces collaboration across all disciplines: developers, designers, UX writers, and product owners.
Discovering Backlight?
Getting started
User's Guides
Concepts
Basic concepts in Backlight.
Online Studio
Code components, review PR visually, write documentation and release your design system directly online.
CLI
Code components locally, write documentation with your favorite IDE and link the design system directly into your app.
VSCode Extension
Coming soon.
Building Design Systems
Design Tokens
How to manage your design tokens.
Stories
How to create isolated instances of components to apply component-driven development.
Testing
Automated unit testing of your components.
Using the DS in your app
How to use a Backlight design system in your application.
Design System Examples
Design Systems made with Backlight.
Reference
How-tos
Short articles to solve specific challenges.
Technologies Demos
Demos of how some technologies can be used in Backlight.
Technologies
Reference guides of all technologies supported.
Supported config files
Description of all root files supported.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions.
Need more help?
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#help
channel for Backlight. - Open an issue
- High-priority email support (for PRO and ENTERPRISE plans only)