Thinkmill Labs

Open innovation

Creating and open-sourcing tools that advance the future of software design and development.

Our projects

Keystatic
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First-class CMS experience, TypeScript API, Markdown & YAML/JSON based, no DB.
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Keystone
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The headless GraphQL API & content studio for schema-driven development.
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React Select
Community maintained
The beautiful and flexible select input built for React.
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Classnames
Community maintained
The JavaScript utility for conditionally joining classNames.
Changesets
Community maintained
A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos.
Manypkg
Community maintained
The linter for package.json files in Yarn, Bolt or pnpm monorepos.
Emery
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TypeScript utilities that improve DX without compromising static types.
Keystar UI
Active
An opinionated component library for building high-quality CMS interfaces.
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Graphql-ts
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Simple Type-Safe GraphQL Schemas in TypeScript.
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Automatic Style Guides
Community maintained
The one-click plugin to generate a Figma style guide from local styles.
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Schema Nodes
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The FigJam plugin for creating visual representations of GraphQL schema.
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Why we experiment

Thinkmill’s mission is to develop, champion, and share ever-better tools, methods, and practices for making great software products, by doing so for our valued clients. We do this by open-sourcing our work, and by sharing the best tools, mindsets, and practices in the industry. We’ve been living this mission since we launched Keystone in 2013. Today, we have a team of engineers and designers working across a range of R&D projects. We call this team Thinkmill Labs; and it’s where our experimentation plays out daily.

By giving our Labs team the freedom to experiment, be curious, and take smart risks, we explore the real-world challenges that our clients face. We translate our findings into tools and practices that benefit our clients, without exposing them to unnecessary risk.

Labs is an essential part of our learning loop, which keeps us at the bleeding edge of our craft while supporting our ability to deliver best-in-class product design, design systems, and more.

Labs is not an island. Our work stands on the shoulders of the broader Thinkmill family, and others in open source. In this spirit, we share what we make and learn, so that others too can grow and benefit.