We are delighted and proud to announce that the next generation of Lepton Theme which will be referred to as LeptonX is on the way.

At Volosoft, we care about developer experience as much as user experience. Thus, LeptonX is following the latest trends for a better user experience and provides highly customizable features that will be easy to use. Our APIs follow a strict guideline to be easy-to-use, intuitive, extendable, and replaceable. In short, we'd like LeptonX to grow into such a platform that developers (not just ABP developers) love to build their applications on top of, and end-users love to interact with.

The initial version has been built upon Bootstrap v4. Bootstrap v5 has been recently published and the ecosystem has not caught up yet. In addition, ABP packages are already dependent on Bootstrap v4, it will be easy to switch from the Basic Theme or from the Lepton Theme to the LeptonX.

We believe that the bigger the community is, the better the framework turns out to be. As we have done in our other products, we will release a free-to-use version of LeptonX, a.k.a LeptonX-lite which will contain most of the basic features. With LeptonX-lite, free ABP application startup templates will come with a production-ready theme, and existing applications will be able to switch from the Basic Theme to the LeptonX-lite with ease.

Highlights

In this section, I want to highlight some of the LeptonX features.

Better Mobile UX

When people talk about Responsive Web Applications, they usually refer to a side menu or top menu that shrinks down into a hamburger menu which does not provide a good user experience for mobile users.

On the other hand, widely used native mobile applications usually employ a tab menu stick to the bottom of the screen. People have become acquainted with