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Have you ever used a boilerplate?

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Re: Have you ever used a boilerplate?

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Martinzokov wrote: post #10
makeee wrote: post #9

I run https://divjoy.com , a react codebase generator. Essentially a boilerplate you can customize before exporting your code. It's been a nice business for me over the past few years. As always, the challenge is marketing and differentiating yourself from the numerous free options. Good luck!

I saw DivJoy recently and it looked very cool! Well done man :) I even considered buying it at one point I agree about the marketing but as I'm still not sure if it's regular devs (most like coding stuff themselves). Also, I'd need to find a distribution channel... Of course, I don't expect you to share your knowledge on that hahah

Yeah honestly I'd work on the distribution channel first. My twitter following and https://usehooks.com (which I sold awhile back) was instrumental in the beginning.

Re: Have you ever used a boilerplate?

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Post by muzani »

Martinzokov wrote: post #6
muzani wrote: post #3

I used to freelance for over 5 years. Good boilerplates matter. Still constantly working on new ones.

What did you look for in a boilerplate?

With Android it's actually difficult as most boilerplates go obsolete in 2-3 years.

But basically copying functionality that takes a while to build.

1. Design system [1] that's integrated with Compose. Meaning blocks are built as part of other blocks.

2. Networking and caching - these can take half a day to assemble and debug.

3. Test integration. Easily days or weeks to do on Android, because dumb stuff like some misaligned libraries.

4. Dependency injection, also harder to set up the larger code gets.

[1] https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/

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