Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator • Hacker News Board

123randomusere wrote: post #56

joshi4 wrote: post #21

This is amazing. Creating a site from scratch takes a lot of time, WYSIWYG website builders are not very customizable. You are in the exact sweet spot I look for as a developer. Seriously great work !

hey joshi! What kind of website are you thinking of building? Would love to hear about why WYSIWYG website builders break down for certain use cases. We're thinking of using WYSIWYG builders interally

Classic 80/20 rule. I've used several of these in the past, and they always work great until you need that 1 thing that they don't support out of the box and then you have to spend half a day figuring out the JS hackery the builder uses so you can work around it to implement the one thing you need in it's subpar code editor that's hidden away in a submenu somewhere.

Re: Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

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Post by dsouza889 » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

I love the idea! please add support to vue.js too. Thanks.

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Post by makeee » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

csbartus wrote: post #75

makeee wrote: post #8

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Yeah, I'm definitely considering that. Basically just wanted to wait and see if anyone asked for it. Out of curiosity, is that because you'd like to use a different UI kit or do you generally write styles from scratch?

Great! Thanks :) I'm using styled components too. But the idea is to have nothing unnecessary forced on you like an UI library, email subscription and so on

Yup makes sense! I've been getting this request a lot over the past few days so almost certainly going to add it soon.

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Post by makeee » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #114

makeee wrote: post #2

Hey HN, my goal with Divjoy is to make it ridiculously easy to start a new React project. You just select all the things you want in your codebase (UI kit, React framework, auth provider, analytics, form handling, etc), pick a template, then export it as a complete codebase that you can keep building on. All the UI logic like routing and auth flows just works. It also has a built-in editor which I think is pretty nif…

Love it. Congratulations on making the Web a more comfortable place for Delphi expats.

Thank you!

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Post by makeee » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:28 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #115

makeee wrote: post #94

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Cool, thanks for clarifying. Definitely on the todo list, although still figuring out how soon I need to figure out the whole data layer (the big missing piece right now) VS focusing on expanding the component library across all the UI kits. Lots to do..

Yeah it looks like a great project with endless directions to expand. I think it would be nice for that drop down for authentication to just offer one more choice. For me there's sort of an "oh, just google" moment when there is just one built in authentication. That's not to take away anything from the project as it is, it's pretty great.

Thanks, that's good feedback. Considering Auth0 next. Any other ones I should consider?

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Post by onion2k » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:50 PM UTC

makeee wrote: post #117

onion2k wrote: post #111

I made a project, I messed around with the components, and I exported it. There weren't any tests or docs. That's very disappointing.

This is helpful feedback. Right now it exports the normal CRA readme. Plan is to soon replace that with a dynamically generated doc that goes over your chosen stack as well as some details like the light wrappers we export around routing and auth. Is that what you had in mind? In terms of docs, anything else you’d like to see?

Is that what you had in mind?

That's exactly what I would have liked to see, yes.

Re: Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

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Post by holografix » Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 12:09 AM UTC

makeee wrote: post #2

Hey HN, my goal with Divjoy is to make it ridiculously easy to start a new React project. You just select all the things you want in your codebase (UI kit, React framework, auth provider, analytics, form handling, etc), pick a template, then export it as a complete codebase that you can keep building on. All the UI logic like routing and auth flows just works. It also has a built-in editor which I think is pretty nif…

Fantastic this is sorely needed. React + Redux has so much boilerplate.