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Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by ryanSrich »

Mahn wrote: post #16
thebouv wrote: post #12

I'm trying to figure out the audience. I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with someone else. That's just me though so an example of when this is used would be great. Some feedback: I use Balsamiq and have for years. The whole reason I use a mockup tool in the first place is so I don't have to draw everything by hand or m…

> I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with someone else. That's just me though so an example of when this is used would be great. Remote teams perhaps? I've never had the need, but I would imagine if you work with designers and engineers remotely live mockups could come handy in a brainstorming session.

I work remotely as a Product Designer. I could see this being useful for exactly what you said. However, I've never had the need for a tool like this. It seems like it is solving a problem that doesn't exist (at least not yet).

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by mcescalante »

Spooks wrote: post #25

How did you find the process of working with React for this project compared to other js libraries

I would also love to know what you thought about React since this is a fairly large app when compared to many of the examples commonly given as "this was built with react" (minus FB's products).

After looking at the GitHub page for the org, it looks like you're mixing in a bunch of Clojurescript as well, and tying that in, I'd love to hear more about the choices you made when building this and what you thought about the tools. Love the design and the app feels great :)

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by dwwoelfel »

Spooks wrote: post #25

How did you find the process of working with React for this project compared to other js libraries

It's much more pleasant to build UIs with lots of different states in React, because you have a full programming language at your disposal. The last js library I worked with was Knockout.js. Having to use Knockout's limited subset of a programming language to do view logic meant that lots of view logic lived in the models.

But the really big difference is in using ClojureScript. I converted CircleCI's open-source frontend[1] to Om/React and it feels much closer to backend codebase than a frontend. Brandon Bloom gave a good talk about it at Clojure/West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNtQPSUi1iQ

[1] https://github.com/circleci/frontend

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by towelguy »

dbg31415 wrote: post #21

This is cool, in concept. But there's no way that drawing all the shapes manually is an improvement over my existing system for creating annotated wireframes using Balsamiq ( https://balsamiq.com/ ) and Red Pen ( https://redpen.io/ ). While I certainly do like feedback from the team, I don't want other people marking up my wireframes in a way that makes it impossible to tell who drew what / said what. Site note, the…

Maybe assign a color to each participant and make the lines each draw have a slight shine of their color? or color it on mouseover.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by krisdol »

enriquecastl wrote: post #33

I'd like to congratulate you for such an impressive user interface: so fast, sleek and well designed. For the purpose of creating mocks I'd like to have more prebuilt components though.

Yes, being able to share/upload components for others to use would be stellar.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by planetjones »

dwwoelfel wrote: post #23
planetjones wrote: post #17

I have a black screen, a blue tooltip saying "Right-click" and nothing whatsoever happening when I right click. Firefox 31.5.0 edit: is it really necessary to downvote for reporting a valid bug !?

Sorry about that! We've only tested with Firefox 38. I'll see if I can install an older version and try to fix whatever bug you're hitting. In the meantime, I'd be interested if Chrome or Firefox 38 works for you.

hi - i checked the logs. I presume it's the corporate network I'm in blocking the websocket stuff

WebSocket connection to 'wss://precursorapp.com/chsk?tab-id=883d69ff-1095-4eed-bf63-83d786d55db1&client-id=f71e3c9b-fd70-4710-8502-ada0c73f4760' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 200

Maybe you could add some better error handling into the GUI ?

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