Why did you decide to rewrite this in react vs svelte?
As someone who loves svelte and whose been writing a fairly large svelte app but has been jealous of the react ecosystem, I'd love to hear your rationale.
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Re: Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app
#62Why did you decide to rewrite this in react vs svelte? As someone who loves svelte and whose been writing a fairly large svelte app but has been jealous of the react ecosystem, I'd love to hear your rationale.
It pained me to do this. Everyone I talked to used React instead of Svelte. At some point, we realized we were spending half the time supporting Svelte just for ourselves for I still love Svelte and will continue using it for side projects but right now I think the tech needs to get out of the way of the better user experience.
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#63Any plans to add Vue support?
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#64Love your landing page! What did you build the animation at the top of your page with?
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#65I would pay top dollars for this if you can integrate it with Microsoft PCF along with their build tools.
Re: Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app
#66Why did you decide to rewrite this in react vs svelte? As someone who loves svelte and whose been writing a fairly large svelte app but has been jealous of the react ecosystem, I'd love to hear your rationale.
It pained me to do this. Everyone I talked to used React instead of Svelte. At some point, we realized we were spending half the time supporting Svelte just for ourselves for I still love Svelte and will continue using it for side projects but right now I think the tech needs to get out of the way of the better user experience.
Ya, that seems about right for my project as well. Although mine won't be OSS so I'm more concerned with finding good ppl with Svelte skills vs React skills. I may need to bite the bullet once I'm closer to hiring. Thanks.
Re: Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app
#67Damn this looks like even I could make decent web applications in it. Pretty cool.
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#68If you use Bootstrap and are more towards "static" websites, I recommend Bootstrap Studio (https://bootstrapstudio.io/). I used it on and off. Last time, I used it to make one-off HTML, then edit the rest by hand (meaning, I can't return to the app again to make changes).
But recently, I used it to develop https://momenial.com/ with 100% editing in the app. Meaning I can use the app to make changes. I _do_ still need to make minor edits (that I think I can automate using a script).
It's not perfect (e.g. it can't import existing design, gosh I wish!), but it gets the job done for design-illiterate people like me.
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#69Pretty cool! I recently came across WeWeb (weweb.io) which also allows for exporting code, and is quite feature rich in its visual editor
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#70This is THE tool I'm looking for years!