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Hacker News Search Landing Page
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Hacker News Search

a faster hnsearch
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#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1920 social mentions
Storybook Landing Page
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Storybook

Storybook is an open source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React, Vue, and Angular. It makes building stunning UIs organized and efficient.
Pricing:
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Something like https://storybook.js.org/? Not a VS Code plugin, but similar idea. SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose and Flutter also all support such previews in their respective IDEs.

#React #React Components #Developer Tools 205 social mentions
Stackbit Landing Page

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Stackbit

Build Modern JAMstack Websites in Minutes. Combine any Theme, Site Generator and CMS without complicated integrations.

Similar is https://stackbit.com/. I've used it to make my React website visually editable so my marketers could have a WYSIWYG.

#JAMstack #Website Builder #Static Site Generators 3 social mentions
React Studio Landing Page

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React Studio

Create app flows and components. Express their properties and data linkage visually.

Good luck, looks great already! I spent years of my life on the problem of generating useful multi-platform code from a GUI tool and integrating it into designer and developer workflows. Before giving up I made React Studio (https://reactstudio.com) which is owned by my co-founders now. It's insanely difficult. Nobody's needs are exactly the same, and nobody can agree even on the basics of how a web app is structured: where does CSS go, how do you update your global data, etc. The abstractions I had to build to handle that then increased the learning curve to such levels that it became more like a CAD tool where you'd practically need to train teams into a new way of thinking for them to become productive. Having traction with a few customers never seemed to translate into something scalable. (Maybe with an actual sales team an enterprise strategy could have worked.) My original version of the product was a mobile-only UI tool that generated native code for iOS and Android. In retrospect that was a better product than trying to expand into mobile web apps.

#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 7 social mentions
Tailwind CSS Play Landing Page

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Tailwind CSS Play

An advanced online playground for Tailwind CSS

Tailwind support would be awesome. I often use Tailwind Play (https://play.tailwindcss.com/) when I'm "sketching out" the look of a new component since it's so quick to iterate and get immediate visual feedback, as you well know.

#Web App #Design Tools #Developer Tools 42 social mentions