Style Guides, Design Systems & Component Libraries — Explained

Bassem Allani
Next-Generation Web
4 min readNov 19, 2021

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You might think that the terms “Style Guide”, “Design System” and “Component Library” all mean the same thing. In this article, I will expose the differences between all of these.

Why Should You Care?

Most projects start with a simple design.

Bassem Allani
Next-Generation Web

👨‍✈️ Airline Pilot, 👨🏻‍💻 Software Engineer, 👨🏻‍🎨 Designer, 🪄 Magician & 🎵 Musician. https://nextglabs.com