Release 0.0.1-alpha

Our very first alpha release of Excelsior 🎉

Jesse Gardner

November 6, 2024

1 min read time

Ever Upward!

Today marks a huge milestone: the very first alpha release of the Excelsior Design System (early codename)! This release lays the foundation for everything that will come after—our build process, our standards, and the collaborative spirit of the team.

Big thanks to Jesse Gardner for laying down so much of the early groundwork, and to the whole ITS HCD team for helping bring Excelsior to life. This is just the beginning.

Project Foundations

• Added a pull request template to keep our contributions clear and consistent (#25)
• Configured TypeScript (tsconfig) to standardize our dev environment (#26)
• Introduced Rollup bundling with plugins to streamline packaging (#28)
• Set up ESLint + linting tasks to keep our codebase clean and maintainable (#30)
• Integrated Vite and Storybook for lightning-fast development and interactive component previews (#45)

These building blocks are the core of our workflow—and they’ll help us ship stable, consistent, and accessible components going forward.

For full component updates, bug fixes, and the detailed changelog:

See the full developer release notes for v0.0.1-alpha →