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Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by nadawix »

hunterb123 wrote: post #8
CharlesW wrote: post #5

If the creators are hanging out, what does "first visual IDE for React" mean when there have been other visual IDEs for React (and React frameworks like Next.js)?

Personally it looks more like a no-code tool as it doesn't really focus on the code aspect. An IDE should have the text in the forefront, enable all the things an IDE normally does, as well as have a preview mode where you can visually edit. A Dreamweaver for React. In their defense it looks like they expect you to focus on the text part in your normal editor. But at that point they should make this a VSCode extensio…

Vscode plugin is coming soon.

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by ollien »

This reminded me of Storybook, and someone mentioned it on the blog post's comments

> Both in Codux and Storybook you isolate your components and render them, but this is where the similarities end :) . Now within Codux you can drill into every internal part of your component and visually edit it! you can change prop values, edit styles, and add/remove JSX elements all within the app. Every change you make results in actual source code change that you can later commit and push through git just as if you've done them in your IDE.

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by ablatt89 »

Reminds me of Visual Studio drag and drop to generate UIs for Windows apps, or Xcode's storyboard for drag and drop UIs. Interestingly, Apple is transitioning to SwiftUI which is declarative. Nice to see an increase in drag and drop UI options for web apps!

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by spaceywilly »

ablatt89 wrote: post #17

Reminds me of Visual Studio drag and drop to generate UIs for Windows apps, or Xcode's storyboard for drag and drop UIs. Interestingly, Apple is transitioning to SwiftUI which is declarative. Nice to see an increase in drag and drop UI options for web apps!

Maybe it’s just me but I always found the storyboards to be a nightmare. When it works it is ok, but I would argue no faster than just writing the code. When it doesn’t work and you have to attempt to debug an issue, hoo boy. I know how to code, just let me code the UI.

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by slig »

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #13
vlod wrote: post #7

Using FF: "Our live demo currently only supports Chromium based browsers (Chrome, Edge)" BOO :( back button.

> React programmers know nothing about Javascript or web development Can't say I'm suprised.

>Mozilla doesn't care about Firefox's market share dropping every single year

Can't say I'm surprised either.

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