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

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Post by makeee »

dreamer_soul wrote: post #60

Looks amazing! Any plans on a vuejs implementation? Also would be awesome if we can change bootstrap scss variables such as primary color. Thank you for the amazing product

Thanks! So you can actually tweak SCSS variables like primary color in the tool. Just click the style button at the top when you have editor open. I'll have this for Bootstrap as well when it's added. Any kind of Vue implementation is probably a ways down the road, since the plan is to build some nice UI abstractions around React concepts (like Suspense). Harder to do that well if I'm building for multiple frameworks.

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

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Post by dboon »

This tool is an absolute joy to use. At my nine to five, I work on a library that often times feels clunky and heavy. To use a tool as simple, powerful, and beautiful as this one truly does bring me joy. Thanks for putting the time into this! It's the perfect intersection of drag-n-drop and from scratch.

If you've got some preferred channel where I can drop you a couple dollars in support of this project, let me know.

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

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Post by leetbulb »

thegeomaster wrote: post #45
makeee wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I think a lot of people prefer to write styles from scratch. At least I haven't seen these UI kits being used much around me. I tried using one a couple of times and while it's great for getting something on the screen quickly, it turned into hell when I wanted to customize the look. Also it emitted embarassingly large bundles.

Yeah, having styled-components (not a UI framework) included in the boilerplate would be pretty awesome for something like this.

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

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Post by makeee »

dboon wrote: post #62

This tool is an absolute joy to use. At my nine to five, I work on a library that often times feels clunky and heavy. To use a tool as simple, powerful, and beautiful as this one truly does bring me joy. Thanks for putting the time into this! It's the perfect intersection of drag-n-drop and from scratch. If you've got some preferred channel where I can drop you a couple dollars in support of this project, let me know…

Wow, thank you! And I really appreciate the offer to support the project. The plan is to roll out some premium integrations and themes in the coming months and see how that works out as a revenue model. Not against setting up a Paypal or Patreon, but would love to see if this can be productized (yet still super generous with what you can do for free). Anything come to mind as something extra you'd pay for?

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

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Post by makeee »

leetbulb wrote: post #63
thegeomaster wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a lot of people prefer to write styles from scratch. At least I haven't seen these UI kits being used much around me. I tried using one a couple of times and while it's great for getting something on the screen quickly, it turned into hell when I wanted to customize the look. Also it emitted embarassingly large bundles.

Yeah, having styled-components (not a UI framework) included in the boilerplate would be pretty awesome for something like this.

Yeah looking into adding Styled Components and Emotion support. Should be pretty easy since all custom style is already stored in a json format and scoped to each element.

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

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Post by makeee »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #23
makeee wrote: post #5

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Thanks! Would love to hear any feedback once you give it a spin.

Yeah, this reminds me of RealWorld on Github. I wonder if you could use that to build your templates since it's open source :)

Yeah I'm a big fan of that project! Definitely took some inspiration from that early on when I was thinking about how doable this was.

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

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Post by makeee »

lukeplato wrote: post #54

Impressive, how long did it take a single developer to make something like this?

It was pretty exploratory at first so hard to say. Initially started out as me wondering if a drag and drop tree editor would be a decent way for beginners to learn React. Played around with a lot of different ideas and it kind of evolved from there. Maybe about 6 months full-time.

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

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Post by IceDane »

This looks absolutely awesome. I had been toying with a similar idea in my head for a while, but I never even started building anything, and now it looks like I won't need to!

It had seemed to me that due to how web development has evolved in recent years, improving compositionality greatly by adopting functional programming concepts, designing something like this could be done relatively elegantly if you are just able to find the right abstractions. Seems to me that you have been able to do so, given what you support and are planning to support, though I can imagine it is an ongoing engineering challenge.

Kudos, thanks and good luck! I will definitely be trying this out, though I hope you decide to support typescript at some point.

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