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Re: Show HN: An open-source, local-first Webflow for your own app

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Post by aswerty » Mon, Sep 02, 2024, 12:40 PM UTC

hoakiet98 wrote: post #30

aswerty wrote: post #27

Onlook sounds interesting as someone who had lined up using https://webflow.com/devlink as a solution for allowing our web dev to continue doing static content development in our new web app. If I were to ask: why use Onlook over Devlink what would your answer be?

I think DevLink is great and it's a step in the right direction. However, you're still locking into a WebFlow project. You can export a DevLink component out and then migrate it back in. You also have to instrument the weblink component. With Onlook, there's no new environment. Your code is just running in localhost in your project. No import export and no extra code just to develop a new component.

Thanks for the answer. Ofc for my use case, the web dev is very keen to stay locked into Webflow. Hopefully I will get some time to do a bit more of a deep dive into Onlook.

Re: Show HN: An open-source, local-first Webflow for your own app

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Post by D_R_Farrell » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 8:42 PM UTC

michalnaka wrote: post #49

very cool!

heyooo thanks naka!

Re: Show HN: An open-source, local-first Webflow for your own app

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Post by knamnguyen » Sun, Sep 08, 2024, 4:29 AM UTC

Hey Kiet - looks awesome. I'm Ky-Nam Nguyen, hoping to try out Onlook for my project here :)

I'm a product designer turned web dev, and I work extensively with Nextjs, Tailwind, and Shadcn/ui.

I love the idea of being able to visually edit my webapp and port them back to code seamlessly. I was hoping you could help me understand the following

- How does Onlook compare with Webflow's devlink and Webstudio? Honestly Devlink seems dead to me, Webstudio seems promising but doesn't look like they prioritize react nor tailwind

- Can I use onlook in a Nextjs project with Tailwind? Will the visual edit reflects in Tailwind classes' updates?

- Will there be issues with "use client" or "use server" components as I read there were with Devlink?

- I'm building out of a turbo monorepo, how will this work? Do I just cd apps/my-nextjs-app and run npx onlook?

- How does this work with Shadcn/ui? If I update a component in the visual editor, I'm assuming it will change the tailwind className from app/components/ui?