@bedrock-core/ui

⚠️ Beta Status: Active development. Breaking changes may occur until 1.0.0. Pin exact versions for stability.

Custom JSX-driven UI system for Minecraft Bedrock. Components serialize into compact strings decoded by a render pack to render rich layouts beyond native @minecraft/server-ui limitations.

📘 Full documentation & guides: https://bedrock-core.drav.dev/

📦 Install

yarn add @bedrock-core/ui

Or scaffold a whole project — Regolith, TypeScript, the filter chain, an example screen and the render pack:

npx @bedrock-core/cli

The one package carries the whole stack behind subpath entries — @bedrock-core/ui, /ore-styled, /navigation, /i18n, /guides, /config, /flexbox — plus /jsx-runtime for jsxImportSource.

The JSON UI decoders live in a render pack (core-ui-v*.mcpack, attached to every release) that has to ship in the world alongside your addon; take it from the same release as the library. See Installation and Render pack.

✨ Features

Core

• JSX runtime with a custom component system and a TypeScript library with proper exports
• Serialization protocol with UTF-8 safety, decoded by the JSON UI render pack
• Hooks: useState, useReducer, useRef, useEffect, useContext, useEvent, usePlayer, useExit
• Event system with Button click handling
• Custom native component API — register your own native JSON UI components compatible with @bedrock-core/ui

Components

• Base components: Panel, Text, Image, Fragment, Button, ItemRenderer
• Background — a screen-level background texture
• Scroll — up to 2 independent scroll regions per render
• Modal-backed standalone primitives: Input, Dropdown, Slider

Layout & Styling

• Flexbox layout engine — flex, margins, paddings, spacing, alignment, aspect ratio, content measurement (@bedrock-core/flexbox)
• Prebuilt Ore-UI styled components (@bedrock-core/ore-styled): Button, Card, Toggle, Divider, Input, Dropdown, Slider, Checkbox, RadioGroup/Radio, ToggleButtonGroup/ToggleButtonItem, Header, MenuRow, ItemSlot, ItemContainer, EquipmentSlots, plus the theme design tokens for ad-hoc styling

Localization

• Typed keys, interpolation and plurals, resolved on the client in each player's own language (@bedrock-core/i18n) — nested TypeScript resources are the source of truth, and the i18n regolith filter generates the .lang files, the runtime bundle and the key types from them
• Text takes a literal string, a translation key or a RawMessage interchangeably — no prop to declare, no wiring beyond the addon's one createI18n(bundle) call
• Bundles replicate across addons, so one realm can render another's strings

Navigation

• Stack-based multi-screen navigation with screen parameters and typed route state (@bedrock-core/navigation)
• NavigationContainer, createStackNavigator, stackReducer
• Navigation hooks: useNavigation(), useRoute()

Forms

• <Form> — a native ModalFormData-backed form with an atomic single-submit lifecycle (onSubmit / onCancel)
• Form field primitives: Form.Toggle, Form.Slider, Form.Dropdown, Form.InlineSelect, Form.Input, Form.Option
• Form.Button — in-flow submit / exit action buttons, positioned anywhere in the form
• Ore-Styled form fields: Form.Toggle, Form.Checkbox, Form.Radio, Form.ToggleButton, Form.Slider, Form.Dropdown, Form.Input, Form.Button

Guides & Config

• In-game guides authored in MDX (@bedrock-core/guides) — the guides regolith filter compiles packs/data/guides/<locale>/**.mdx into a guide manifest plus .lang files, and createGuide(manifest) renders it as a self-contained guide with its own home ⇆ page navigation, prose localized per player language
• Shared addon list + config + guide UI (@bedrock-core/config) — ui(core) mounts <namespace>:config / :configat / :guide / :list under the addon's own namespace, and whichever realm runs the newest runtime serves the config and guide screens for every registered addon

🚀 Future Considerations

• Compound components (tabs, menus, dialogs)
• Animation support
• Resource pack builder automation
• Reactive data binding (if feasible)
• Export feature for "non-form" JSON UI
• Entity render
• Structure render

📘 Documentation

Everything below is covered in depth at https://bedrock-core.drav.dev/

• Overview & installation
• ui-runtime — components, hooks, API, render pack
• ore-styled — prebuilt Ore-UI components and the theme
• navigation · i18n · guides · config
• flexbox — the layout engine, for tool and renderer authors
• CLI — project scaffolding
• Server packages — cross-addon registry, config and transport

The resource-pack workspace is the reference addon: every component and hook has a working screen in it.

🤝 Contributing

Let's talk in Discord https://bedrock-core.drav.dev/discord

📖 Resources

• Bedrock Wiki - JSON UI Introduction
• JSON UI Documentation

What about ore-ui/DDUI?

ore-ui: When it releases in Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER years, will consider if it is worth to port for ore-ui. DDUI: It cannot be made compatible, DDUI does not use JSON UI so we cannot use the same methods.

Notes

Common web behaviour is one web has a single or multiple theme but all controlled by the same team/person.

Here in Minecraft we may have multiple addons each with their own UI, styling...

📄 License

MIT