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Re: Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

#91

Post by chrisvxd »

pat64 wrote: post #90

My only major gripe with it is React. Either go all the way and build something for Svelte that does this lowering the bar to the bottom on both creation and understanding of the UI layer or Do this with Rust and target Wasm abstracting away the hard / tedious parts of working with lower level languages and creating graphical applications. Like this + Tauri would be an absolute powerhouse but as good as it is, it’s s…

React is what we needed for our use case, but maybe we can eventually evolve it to a place where it can be used with different frameworks.

Re: Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

#92

Post by madeofpalk »

pat64 wrote: post #90

My only major gripe with it is React. Either go all the way and build something for Svelte that does this lowering the bar to the bottom on both creation and understanding of the UI layer or Do this with Rust and target Wasm abstracting away the hard / tedious parts of working with lower level languages and creating graphical applications. Like this + Tauri would be an absolute powerhouse but as good as it is, it’s s…

This seems like a weird gripe. There's probably a high chance that a team/company has a bunch of React components already built, or they have a bunch of devs who know React, and just need an editor for it.

Re: Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

#94

Post by 2pointsomone »

This is just so fantastic, I have been looking for something like this for the open-source edtech app builder Flow (https://github.com/opencurriculum/flow) for the past year! Talked to the WebStudio guy and did so much research, but nothing was just right. This feels JUST. RIGHT.

Thank you for all the hardwork!

Re: Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

#95

Post by 2pointsomone »

2pointsomone wrote: post #94

This is just so fantastic, I have been looking for something like this for the open-source edtech app builder Flow ( https://github.com/opencurriculum/flow ) for the past year! Talked to the WebStudio guy and did so much research, but nothing was just right. This feels JUST. RIGHT. Thank you for all the hardwork!

Btw, a very easy big win for you would be to port the side styles/interactions panel of WebStudio into this. And by port I mean extracting the code to make a common open-source library with the correct license and putting it in Puck.

Re: Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

#97

Post by chrisvxd »

2pointsomone wrote: post #94

This is just so fantastic, I have been looking for something like this for the open-source edtech app builder Flow ( https://github.com/opencurriculum/flow ) for the past year! Talked to the WebStudio guy and did so much research, but nothing was just right. This feels JUST. RIGHT. Thank you for all the hardwork!

Oh, awesome. Let me know how you get on!

Re: Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

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Post by chrisvxd »

2pointsomone wrote: post #95
2pointsomone wrote: post #94

This is just so fantastic, I have been looking for something like this for the open-source edtech app builder Flow ( https://github.com/opencurriculum/flow ) for the past year! Talked to the WebStudio guy and did so much research, but nothing was just right. This feels JUST. RIGHT. Thank you for all the hardwork!

Btw, a very easy big win for you would be to port the side styles/interactions panel of WebStudio into this. And by port I mean extracting the code to make a common open-source library with the correct license and putting it in Puck.

Great idea - could add this as a core field type so you can use it via the fields API, i.e. `{ type: "css", cssProperties: ["color"] }`

Re: Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

#99

Post by chrisvxd »

jarek83 wrote: post #87

Alternative meaning - Polish city nearby me :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck,_Poland

The name comes from (ChatGPT-researched) folklore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(folklore)

Puck is a... fairy... [that takes on] the shape of animals

Puck is also a little, er, mischievous and sometimes seen as a demon. But we prefer the first interpretation.

Re: Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

#100

Post by chrisvxd »

btown wrote: post #75

This is really slick! A really fluid and intuitive interface. We use https://react-page.github.io/ (also MIT licensed) extensively at my startup; it attacks the same problem, and it's been incredibly effective (and hackable!). Generally speaking, owning your own CMS data, in your own database, with a well-documented JSON data format, and adding the ability to take any React component you've written (that itself may i…

Thanks for sharing react-page! I hadn't come across this before.

Builder.io is great but the hosted nature made it a non-starter for us.

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