[HN Gopher] WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web
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WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web
Author : nateb2022
Score : 39 points
Date : 2023-06-15 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (webstudio.is)
(TXT) w3m dump (webstudio.is)
| Solvency wrote:
| So, another Framer.com.
| [deleted]
| joshmarinacci wrote:
| What do they mean by 'Open' if it's a service?
| mthoms wrote:
| It's open source. You can self-host it.
| pryelluw wrote:
| Doesn't say much how. And it mentions docker but doesn't
| mention anything about running the docker image.
| modeless wrote:
| Good thing you can pay them to take care of those things if
| you don't want to invest effort in finding out for
| yourself.
| naavis wrote:
| As far as I can tell, it is also a desktop application, and the
| source code is available on Github:
| https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio-builder
|
| On the main website you can scroll down to the bottom and click
| Download.
| m00x wrote:
| There are so many website builders out there, I'm surprised
| someone made yet another one. This basically looks like webflow.
| mthoms wrote:
| According to their blog, the main developer used to work for
| Webflow. They wanted to start fresh because of some technical
| debt that Webflow (apparently) has.
| 28304283409234 wrote:
| Ah Dreamweaver. You just won't die, will you.
| stayux wrote:
| Thanks for posting it:)
| [deleted]
| morgango wrote:
| I downloaded it, looks slick. Can I use standard frameworks like
| Bootstrap with this? Also, any docs?
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| If you're using a design tool to build your website... why
| would you need bootstrap? If you use a tool, the implementation
| details shouldn't matter much to you, just the process and
| final product.
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| Wish that was the case in general, but it isn't. The
| implementation details matter, because:
|
| - There may be other tools better at specific aspects of the
| product, which you may want to include in the process;
|
| - Special case of the above, the design tool may not carry
| you 100% of the way, and you don't want the tool to become an
| anchor at that point;
|
| - There may be other people working on the product, using
| different tools;
|
| - There is lots of ready-made stuff that can be plugged in to
| your product to enhance or prettify or optimize it - provided
| it's compatible with common standards at the implementation
| level.
| morgango wrote:
| I am just fine with the look and feel of bootstrap. Visual
| tools are great for prototyping and for dealing with fiddly
| bits like layouts.
|
| Why would I want to be constrained to plain HTML when there
| are pre-made toolkits out there that do it for me? I don't
| want to figure out how to do rounded corners in CSS, but I
| would like to have a GUI that shows me how it looks on a
| page.
| singpolyma3 wrote:
| ... you know rounded corners are built in to CSS right?
| There's no arcane knowledge there. Bit of an odd example
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