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OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

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Re: OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

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Post by Layvier »

I've been using Chakra UI for 3 months now, I can confidently recommend it ! It's simple, highly flexible, well designed and the maintainers are responsive and open to ideas. There's of course of few issues, e.g. the color mode with Next.js or some components missing but no real blockers AFAIK

Re: OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

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Post by mmonihan »

statictype wrote: post #14

Is there any toolkit available that lets you build a UI editor like this? We would like to ship a UI editor with our product that lets you define simple UIs that serialize to json/xml but are hesitant because of the effort required and resources at hand.

https://ResponseVault.com is built for that. Drag and drop React form components that can embed in any app. All responses and the form definition are saved in json-schema and can be exported to be used with any package that interprets json-schema.

Bring your own components too.

Re: OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

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Post by seek3r00 »

biermic wrote: post #35

I'm having trouble understanding for whom this is is built. Obviously not for me, but what's the problem that editor is solving?

well, it could provide designers a tool for designing their mockups and share the resulting React components with the developers—thus removing the need for the latter to manually translate mockups into code.

Re: OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

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Post by invalidusernam3 »

shinework wrote: post #28
Dirak wrote: post #3

As an engineer who works on design systems for a living, I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed with Chakra UI. Its implementation is refreshingly simple and support for generally overlooked things like color theming and responsiveness is generally really well done. Props to the devs for building this -- the care and attention to detail definitely shows.

Thanks for your feedback! We try to keep the app simple and clean but with strong details and ux

Very cool. One suggestion: turn off the autocomplete on the inputs in Chrome. For example if I place an image, in the properties panel I get a lot of weird suggestions as I focus on various fields

Re: OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

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Post by moksly »

biermic wrote: post #35

I'm having trouble understanding for whom this is is built. Obviously not for me, but what's the problem that editor is solving?

I work in the public sector where hordes of MBA types have gotten into digitisation in recent years. I throughly believe we’ll see more and more tools that don’t require an actual developer, because there is just a huge market for it.
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