The article explains how Douyin's Semi Design, an open‑source React UI design system, was found to contain undocumented Ant Design text, details the team's public apology, the architectural differences, license updates, and the specific components that were referenced.
Semi Design, ByteDance’s modern React UI library, was open‑sourced under MIT, later faced criticism for copying Ant Design documentation, prompting an apology and subsequent license updates that added proper attributions for referenced code and design inspirations, highlighting its distinct architecture and extensive component suite.
This article explains how to automatically replace literal color values with Semi Design CSS variables for dark‑mode support by parsing style files with PostCSS, calculating color similarity with chroma‑js, and applying a custom Stylelint rule that can lint and autofix the code.
