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 our bubbles at home and start building common infrastructure to meet human needs in harmony with Mother Earth.

That is why Utopia UI exists. It is a UI kit for minimalist, fast, intuitive and mobile-first map apps, as a tool for local connection and decentralised networking. We believe in maps as the perfect link between digital tools and real life action

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.

It is the base of Utopia Map and Utopia Game.

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
• Customizable Profiles for users and other items
• App shell with navigation bar and sidebar

Getting Started

Basic Map

In this tutorial we learn how we create a basic React app with a Map component using utopia-ui library.

For this tutorial we use Vite to create an empty React app called "utopia-static-map"

npm create vite@latest utopia-static-map -- --template react

We open our new app in the terminal and install the utopia-ui package

cd utopia-static-map
npm install utopia-ui

We open our src/App.jsx and we replace the content with

import { UtopiaMap } from "utopia-ui"

function App() {
  return (
    <UtopiaMap center={[50.6, 9.5]} zoom={5} height='100dvh' width="100dvw">
    </UtopiaMap>
  )
}

export default App

Then we start the development server to check out the result in our browser:

npm run dev

And can open our first map app in the browser 🙂

Static Layers

Now we add some static content in two layer.

First we put some sample data in a new file called src/sample-data.js

export const places = [{
    "id": 51,
    "name": "Stadtgemüse",
    "text": "Stadtgemüse Fulda ist eine Gemüsegärtnerei in Maberzell, die es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, die Stadt und seine Bewohner:innen mit regionalem, frischem und natürlich angebautem Gemüse mittels Gemüsekisten zu versorgen. Es gibt also jede Woche, von Frühjahr bis Herbst, angepasst an die Saison eine Kiste mit schmackhaftem und frischem Gemüse für euch, welche ihr direkt vor Ort abholen könnt. \r\n\r\nhttps://stadtgemuese-fulda.de",
    "position": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [9.632435, 50.560342] },
  },
  {
    "id": 166,
    "name": "Weidendom",
    "text": "free camping",
    "position": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [9.438793, 50.560112] },
  }];
  
  export const events = [
    {
      "id": 423,
      "name": "Hackathon",
      "text": "still in progress",
      "position": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [10.5, 51.62] },
      "start": "2022-03-25T12:00:00",
      "end": "2022-05-12T12:00:00",
    }
  ]

We want to create two Layers. One we want to call Places and the other Events

we import our sample data to the src/App.jsx

import { events, places } from "./sample-data"

and than we create our two <Layer> inside of our <UtopiaMap> component

    <UtopiaMap center={[50.6, 15.5]} zoom={5} height='100dvh' width="100dvw">
      <Layer
        name='events'
        markerIcon='calendar'
        markerShape='square'
        markerDefaultColor='#700'
        data={events} />
      <Layer
        name='places'
        markerIcon='point'
        markerShape='circle'
        markerDefaultColor='#007'
        data={places} />
    </UtopiaMap>

Map Component

The map shows various Layers (like places, events, profiles ...) of Items at their respective position whith nice and informative Popup and Profiles.

Tags, colors and clusters help to retain the overview.

Map 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

Layer Options

Option	Type	Default	Required	Description
...

Join the community

This Library is in 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/UtopiaMap

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