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Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by chungwu »

wiltonn wrote: post #68

Whats the difference between this and Builder.io? both no/low code apps with a CMS as its base. Drag and drop for UI, auto-code generation and plug into back end of choice.

We have a lot of respect for the work Builder.io is doing! If you're using Plasmic as a CMS, then there is a lot of overlap there. But Plasmic is a general visual React app builder, and as such, it comes with a lot of the abstractions and power you need to build a full React app. For example, you can craft reusable components in Plasmic that have different variants and have stateful behavior, and you can make use of abstractions like style tokens. Whereas Builder.io's UI is pretty focused on building individual pages, Plasmic is more about building the intermediate, reusable pieces of your app -- components, tokens, etc -- that you can then compose into pages and experiences. Using Plasmic will feel a little more like working on a full React application... for better or worse

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by xyzzyrz »

wiltonn wrote: post #68

Whats the difference between this and Builder.io? both no/low code apps with a CMS as its base. Drag and drop for UI, auto-code generation and plug into back end of choice.

We also have this page that goes into some more detail: https://www.plasmic.app/vs-builder-io

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by senthuJ »

addisonj wrote: post #23

I have been using Plasmic for the last 3 months as part of a contract app where the goal was to get the technical, but not frontend experienced client able to do a lot of the design. I did a lot of custom work on components (like integrating the Supabase API and custom Auth for RLS support) as well as integrating some other endpoints/libraries. In short, I have gone pretty deep with it as a proper "app" builder compa…

Balanced viewpoint here. Good writeup. Got potential. In my view looks solid in certain use cases e.g. websites, mobile apps and for rapid prototyping. Step in the right direction (open sourcing) for Plasmic i think.

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by ireadmevs »

Lincolnmitchell wrote: post #67
Lincolnmitchell wrote: post #62

I've been using Chakra UI components in Plasmic for around 1 year after trying to do this in Framer and UXPin Merge. Plasmic is what Framer was hyped to be but did not deliver, it's the best I have found. The downside to Plasmic has been the community size and therefore lake of support so I hope Plasmic going open source will resolve these issues. These types of tools can be overlooked by traditional siloed Design an…

I'd add that our current workflow is to complete our webapp designs using code components and deploy via Vercel as a prototype. Later we aim to publish production directly from Plasmic. These little steps are addressing cultural issues mostly, a the idea of a design team publishing the FE touching a lot of cultural issues and fears like reporting lines, processes, job loss - change is scary.

As a FE engineer, my preference is to work on the tool that is used to create the websites rather than the website itself

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by ireadmevs »

bossyTeacher wrote: post #32
mholt wrote: post #17

Chrome only :( I guess Firefox 121 isn't modern enough...

Mozilla needs to step up its game or its browser is gonna disappear :(

Or maybe Chrome needs to stop implementing non standardized APIs and becoming the new IE

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

p2hari wrote: post #74

I did not understand the pricing. Is it for the CMS then? Is it possible to self host and connect other CMSes?

No it's another one of those startups looking to cash in on becoming open source. If your open source projects contains a "pricing" page prominently in the top bar, it goes against the open source ethos and you should be ashamed of marketing it as such.

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by Lincolnmitchell »

ireadmevs wrote: post #76
Lincolnmitchell wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd add that our current workflow is to complete our webapp designs using code components and deploy via Vercel as a prototype. Later we aim to publish production directly from Plasmic. These little steps are addressing cultural issues mostly, a the idea of a design team publishing the FE touching a lot of cultural issues and fears like reporting lines, processes, job loss - change is scary.

As a FE engineer, my preference is to work on the tool that is used to create the websites rather than the website itself

YES! We need more FEs like you.

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by _fmota_ »

p2hari wrote: post #74

I did not understand the pricing. Is it for the CMS then? Is it possible to self host and connect other CMSes?

The pricing vary depending of the use case, for those using the CMS, it is mainly for the usage of our hosted version of the visual builder and the CMS. We already provide ways to connect with other CMSes besides our own, like sanity, stripe, contentful, hygraph... But it’s possible to self host and connect with other CMSes.
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