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Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by jahewson »

spaceywilly wrote: post #18
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.

Who needs spaghetti code when you have spaghetti?

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by 1attice »

1attice wrote: post #19

If you go to https://www.codux.com/download in FF there is no link. If you go to https://www.codux.com/download on Chrome on NixOS, you are offered a .deb when you click a button named 'Linux'. Ubuntu != Linux. Debian != Linux.

It's a shame, too, because I'm a professional React dev, and I was really excited to try this!

But there's some sort of thermocline-of-trust issue with a self-identified manufacturer of software engineering tools can't correctly detect or name my OS, nor presumably understand why this makes me wary of trusting my development loads to a tool that is packaged in this way. https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904

Suggestion to Wix: Go take a look at how another closed-source app with excellent cross-platform support is packaged -- say, https://reaper.fm.

This website lets me pick from several different flavours of Linux in an unobtrustive, practical way.

(I mention 'practical' because I know that the idea of supporting more than one flavour of an OS is seen by newcomers as 'impractical', but that's just how we do business in Linuxville, and since we've been doing it for a while, we've got lots of examples of doing it successfully, practically, and sustainably. Welcome! Sorry about the mess!)

Instead of assuming everyone is on .deb, here are some alternatives:

- Flatpak (most preferred) - AppImage - Docker image - Snap (least perferred)

Once it's possible for anyone to use the Flatpak, say, it makes sense to begin producing artifacts for common platforms like .deb for ubuntu x64 etc. Put your CI/CD on it.

But don't start there. Start with flatpak. Start with appImage. Start, if you must, with a docker image and `localhost:3000`. But whatever you do, don't equate linux with Ubuntu or even Debian, it makes everyone feel weird

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by ajkjk »

1attice wrote: post #22
1attice wrote: post #19

If you go to https://www.codux.com/download in FF there is no link. If you go to https://www.codux.com/download on Chrome on NixOS, you are offered a .deb when you click a button named 'Linux'. Ubuntu != Linux. Debian != Linux.

It's a shame, too, because I'm a professional React dev, and I was really excited to try this! But there's some sort of thermocline-of-trust issue with a self-identified manufacturer of software engineering tools can't correctly detect or name my OS, nor presumably understand why this makes me wary of trusting my development loads to a tool that is packaged in this way. https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588115310124…

Probably they're a small team that was focused on getting this working, not thinking through OS compatibility stuff except as an afterthought. Good thing that's easy to fix after the fact?

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by sunjester »

I was kind of shocked to see that I was presented with a Wix logo and had to sign in using my Wix account (odd for a 103MB download I thought). Then, it did not detect node or git on my system and there was no way to specify where it is on my system (as far as I could tell). I hit the exit button and that was the end of my journey with Codux.

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by CharlesW »

nadawix wrote: post #10
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)?

This is the first visual IDE to edit React Typescript code. Even code you created outside of it. You can run it on an existing project, and start creating pull requests to your existing code. as long as the project fits our supported technologies. The other tools you mentioned create code, but cannot edit existing code. This becomes a real problem when a developer changes this exported code, which causes conflicts wh…

> This is the first visual IDE to edit React Typescript code. Even code you created outside of it.

Utopia had two-way sync, but that project may be in a coma. Henosia I just learned about today. It's a tough-but-important problem to solve — best of luck building a successful solution!

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by Gys »

rileyphone wrote: post #12

Interesting that this is by Wix. Although, I'm a little chafed that they claim its the "first visual IDE" for React when things like Henosia [0] already exist. 0. https://henosia.com/

I had a very quick look at the demos of both Codux and Henosia.

The Henosia demo has all data hardcoded. To me that seems not a real world example. In my world the data are all variables, which usually effect the design considerably.

The Codux demo seems to work with actual code and variables for the backend developer, while at the same time the designer sees data. So that makes it more interesting.

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by capableweb »

asadlionpk wrote: post #16

Is there a (react) visual IDE that works in absolute space (like figma?) instead of enforcing responsive css rules?

Hey asdlionpk, meet revskill:

> The issues with most of design tool to React, is they don't understand how to generate CSS in responsive manner. Most of css styles unit is in pixel !

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33885705

Re: Codux: Visual IDE for React

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Post by capableweb »

revskill wrote: post #28

The issues with most of design tool to React, is they don't understand how to generate CSS in responsive manner. Most of css styles unit is in pixel !

Hey revskill, meet asdlionpk:

> Is there a (react) visual IDE that works in absolute space (like figma?) instead of enforcing responsive css rules?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33884900

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