[HN Gopher] Plasmic - A headless page builder
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Plasmic - A headless page builder
Author : mosr
Score : 89 points
Date : 2021-12-15 09:12 UTC (13 hours ago)
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| alangibson wrote:
| Looks cool. These sort of block editors are definitely the
| standard for building pages these days.
|
| Does anyone have any real world experience using it with Vue?
|
| EDIT: Nevermind. There doesn't seem to be a fully self-hosted
| option for the editor.
| tmikaeld wrote:
| As long as it's still difficult to create a (usable & reliable)
| site editor, these services will keep being subscription only.
|
| It annoys me when they try to make it look open source but it's
| only a glorified api client.. same with builder.io [0]
|
| [0] https://www.builder.io/m/visual-cms
| yaaang wrote:
| Really not trying to mislead/annoy - Plasmic's client
| libraries are open source and on GitHub, but not the visual
| editor currently. Will add clarification to the repo, but any
| other suggestions are welcome.
| edude03 wrote:
| This seems like a closed source version of tinacms or am I wrong?
| yaaang wrote:
| It's different from TinaCMS because it's a full free-form page
| builder/web design tool. The developer doesn't need to write
| any CMS template/schema code.
|
| TinaCMS is like other headless CMSes with visual editors, where
| you're limited to using blocks that developers need to code up.
|
| (Both support Markdown text content editing and drag/drop of
| your own components.)
| rendall wrote:
| Very, very cool. I've been needing something like this to help
| out a no-code friend.
|
| Also I made a minor PR
| https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic/pull/25
|
| Also did that from bed on my mobile while binge-watching TV. I
| like living here in the future
| manojlds wrote:
| I don't know what headless means here.
| ghkbrew wrote:
| You interact with it through a web browser. So the server
| software can be installed on a computer without a display.
|
| It's technically correct I guess, but not terribly relevant.
| yaaang wrote:
| It's headless as in "headless CMS" - Plasmic is decoupled from
| your frontend stack, which you run and own. The content you
| design is delivered via API into your site/app.
| Iwan-Zotow wrote:
| you don't need display
|
| rack servers etc
| claytongulick wrote:
| I was ready to open my wallet, then saw it was "pseudo open
| source".
|
| Shame. Looks really cool.
| DonnyV wrote:
| Hard to tell if the designer app comes with the github repo.
| https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic
| ThinkBeat wrote:
| I dont understand what this means:
|
| ""Create stunning visual content and pages, seamlessly
| integrating no-code into your codebase. Unblock your teams and
| ship lightning fast""
|
| Is this a visual web editor that come with vendor / hosting lock
| in? (+ hooking into web hooks)
| yaaang wrote:
| It's the opposite - it has no vendor/hosting lock-in. You run
| and own your own frontend stack, hosting, etc. Plasmic is a
| visual editor that plugs into your stack.
| omnicognate wrote:
| In what sense "headless"?
| yaaang wrote:
| (Copying response from elsewhere)
|
| It's headless as in "headless CMS" - Plasmic is decoupled from
| your frontend stack, which you run and own. The content you
| design is delivered via API into your site/app.
| qorrect wrote:
| Seriously why are they calling this headless
| tluyben2 wrote:
| This as open source would be great. When you see a github link
| you assume it is, or is that just me?
| sidpatil wrote:
| It looks like the project is released under the MIT license,
| judging from the LICENSE.md and the license information in the
| README.
| tmikaeld wrote:
| The editor is not open source, it's just a client SDK towards
| their API.
| csbartus wrote:
| At the first read it seems to be the silver bullet we've been all
| waiting for:
|
| Code, design and content mashed up in a way nobody has to do
| (almost) nothing, and it just spits out stunning web stuff in
| half-time. A win-win-win situation.
|
| I guess I'll take a nap and I'll come back.
| cedricd wrote:
| Has anyone used some of these in production? Tina, Builder,
| Storybloks, React Bricks, or this one? Curious what the
| experience is like.
| yaaang wrote:
| You may be interested in https://plasmic.app/casestudies. Note
| that Plasmic is different from these because it's a full free-
| form web design tool, so it doesn't restrict you to blocks that
| also have be authored by developers.
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