Consider renaming blocks and components

[pigeonfresh]

In the last year I've been doing a lot of introductions to Muban for people new on the team. And often I would use the wrong naming for our blocks and components. In many cases I would call our blocks components and components elements. And a lot of the people are confused about the naming too. Is this something we should reconsider and rename them?

[ThaNarie]

@pigeonfresh is the confusion still there?

[pigeonfresh]

In all of my conversations with project managers, UX and design the name component is used for what we call blocks in Muban. So where as I might be used to calling them blocks in Muban I still feel like component would be a better name for blocks.

[ThaNarie]

Too bad, because among developers "everything" is a component. Same with looking at react or vue. Some are atoms (smaller things), others are molecules or organisms... or blocks, or modules.

I'm fine with renaming away from components (e.g. block & element, or module & element), but component itself is too ambiguous.

[pigeonfresh]

That's why 'block' seems to be a catch-all name for what could be components.
I would rather see that we build up pages out of components than blocks.

[ThaNarie]

I'd rather not use component anywhere :)