Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
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Re: Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
#2I like the subtle nod through capitalization in the phrase "It’s been An Incredible Journey".
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#3More details on the shutdown here, with some good insights: https://medium.com/@gabriel_20625/technical-lessons-from-bui...
Re: Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
#4I like the subtle nod through capitalization in the phrase "It’s been An Incredible Journey".
Though unlike an Incredible Journey, this is the right way to shut down: Open up your code and contribute what you did to society.
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#5very interested in the vuejs implementation.
How soon is soon, now that its moving to open source?
Re: Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
#6very interested in the vuejs implementation. How soon is soon, now that its moving to open source?
Odds are, never. If some volunteer open-source developer decides to pick it up, it might happen, but as the company's shutting down, any "soon" promised by them in the past is obviously now a "never".
Note: That page is clearly just their old homepage + the shutdown message; whatever it says was written pre-shutdown.
Re: Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
#7very interested in the vuejs implementation. How soon is soon, now that its moving to open source?
Odds are, never. If some volunteer open-source developer decides to pick it up, it might happen, but as the company's shutting down, any "soon" promised by them in the past is obviously now a "never". Note: That page is clearly just their old homepage + the shutdown message; whatever it says was written pre-shutdown.
Sad but true, from having seen upfront a similar process. It takes just a fraction of work to bundle all the tech up for open source, but at the point of shutdown everyone is usually just toast... sadness to it too. Most people can't put in that day or two required to jettison it into open source land, right now, and then in a month or two the rot has already set in.
Hopefully these guys buck the trend, because there looks like there is some cool stuff in there.
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#8Sorry to hear about the shutdown, and it looks like it was a pretty useful tool. Great that they open sourced it.
The source code looks very interesting (and a bit unusual for a React app.) [1]
Looks like Coffeescript + "Coffeescript JSX", which I hadn't heard of before.
I didn't look too closely, but I didn't see how they're doing state management in the editor. No Redux in the package.json [2]. I was hoping that I might be able to repurpose some of this for a new project I'm working on, but it all looks very foreign to me [3], and the file organization doesn't seem to follow any conventions that I'm familiar with.
[1] https://github.com/Pagedraw/pagedraw/tree/master/src
[2] https://github.com/Pagedraw/pagedraw/blob/master/package.jso...
[3] https://github.com/Pagedraw/pagedraw/blob/master/src/editor/...
Re: Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
#9Ever heard of them, but love the concept. Perhaps the right thing would be someone like Sketch to incorporate this and make it mature and maintained. They could charge a nice extra for doing so.
Re: Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
#10I like the subtle nod through capitalization in the phrase "It’s been An Incredible Journey".
Though unlike an Incredible Journey, this is the right way to shut down: Open up your code and contribute what you did to society.
I think it isn't meant so much as a gift to society as it is a best-efforts gesture to your existing users regarding their sites and investment:
> We’re releasing it open source both so you can keep using it, and so we can share our ideas about how to build UI tools