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Also, there's a discussion on the ViewComponent issues about extending content areas to be more useful. It sounds like the push is to allow #with to be called multiple times, which could make things like the Accordion achievable in a nice way, perhaps something like this (in slim for brevity):

= render GovukComponent::Accordion.new do |accordion|

  = accordion.with(:item, title: "The first tab") do
    h1 First tab content
    p lorem ipsum sit ....

  = accordion.with(:item, title: "The second tab") do
    h1 Secondtab content
    p lorem ipsum sit ....

Clearly, it's not ready yet but worth considering when (if) the functionality lands

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I agree, and:

Perhaps if only accordions and tables are the "one-offs", they should still live under this gem, but can be implemented without ViewComponent (to make them easier/ergonomical to use) and could have different semantics / a separate section in the docs.

I like the idea of minimising the number of "micro-dependencies" that each have their own Gem publishing pipeline etc. It would make it easier to keep everything in sync when govuk-frontend releases breaking changes.

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On this point, there are several other patterns I've noticed on just about every project that uses the design system.

For example, lots of projects implement their own #govuk_link_to helper (along with similar #govuk_mail_to and #govuk_button_to siblings).

Is there a place for the too? Perhaps in another gem if there turn out to be more than a handful.

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I think Button should be part of this gem. If you look at design system implementation you can have a link styled as a button eg. Start now "button" which is really just a link. We might also want to style that "button" in various states. If you look at govuk-frontend nunjucks api (see macro), the developer can just pass in isStartButton: true and the component will output a start button link rather than a button. Under the hood you could use link_to etc.

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I'm closing this one now. The listed components are present and have been incrementally improved.

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