[HN Gopher] Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
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Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
Author : pistoriusp
Score : 72 points
Date : 2023-08-29 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (webstudio.is)
(TXT) w3m dump (webstudio.is)
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| saranggambhir wrote:
| Tried Webstudio, I still prefer using Divhunt over any other
| builder/CMS
|
| https://divhunt.com
| elliotbnvl wrote:
| Funny enough a WYSIWYG editor is the reason Radix components were
| originally created. I worked on some of the original Radix
| components while working at Modulz[1].
|
| [1]: https://modulz.app/
| dgellow wrote:
| What is Radix?
| BoorishBears wrote:
| https://www.radix-ui.com/
|
| The main offering is their primitives (https://www.radix-
| ui.com/primitives): essentially skeletons of common
| components that plain HTML makes difficult to style.
|
| They take care of cross-browser compatibility and
| accessibility and you apply your CSS to their wrapper
| element. (generally the term for this is headless UI
| components)
|
| Most recently they released a styled version of those
| primitives
| tobr wrote:
| For React. Not mentioned even on the documentation page
| unless you dig for quite a bit.
| BoorishBears wrote:
| Mentioned first thing on the link for primitives.
| [deleted]
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| happytiger wrote:
| I don't understand why downloading code is such a difficult
| feature for a website builder -- I get the competitive aspect.
| BUT! It would bring so many users to your system and really would
| be great marketing -- why not compete by giving people what they
| want and just practice love in not lock in? Especially when
| you're already there with the OSS license?
|
| Seems a real missed opportunity.
| doctor_eval wrote:
| > practice love in not lock in
|
| I haven't heard this phrase before, it's such a great way to
| describe how I like to do things, which I would have written as
| "compete on quality rather than treachery"
| oleg009 wrote:
| We are launching a CLI soon that will allow syncing data and
| self-publishing, starting with Vercel as first destination.
| jerhewet wrote:
| https://webstudio.com/
|
| Steve Cochard passed away a couple of years ago. I miss his
| cranky self ...
| riidom wrote:
| Is that related to toDesktop which was also on HN today
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306411)? The download
| link leads to dl.todesktop.com/{someHash}.
|
| Bit weird, what is the relation here? And why not mentioning?
| p2hari wrote:
| I am not understanding the value of the open source builder, if I
| am not able to download the code and host it on my own. What does
| the opensource gives me additionally apart from integrating the
| studio on my own website. The hobby/free plan already has
| unlimited projects, pages and team members. Looking into the
| builder, I cannot see the code but just the css. Would have been
| good if I could create one of components and be able to download
| the code using the open source builder.
| rvcdbn wrote:
| it's open source you can add the feature to download the code
| yourself if you want it. being open source is also just a good
| thing in itself because it's contributing to the total body of
| code available for others to extend and use in whatever way
| they want.
| codetrotter wrote:
| For anyone else looking for the source code for the WYSIWYG
| builder itself, I think this is it:
| https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio
|
| AGPL 3.0
|
| This is very cool. Looking forward to try it.
| oleg009 wrote:
| CLI for syncing and publishing to Vercel is coming in the next
| weeks
| Gnarl wrote:
| Not signing in "with google" or "with github" or any other
| unrelated 3rd party. If there's no "with email" then its goodbye.
|
| Probably a fine product though...
| JSavageOne wrote:
| Personally I refuse to signup just to check out something I'm
| only passively interested in, and I will never understand why
| startups do this. I imagine they're immediately turning away
| >80% of potential customers vs. just letting people try out the
| damn product
| michaelmrose wrote:
| Any product that allows you to consume lots of resources
| including API calls, interact with other users, or share
| anything basically needs to be authenticated to avoid misuse.
| This covers virtually everything.
|
| Sign in with google/apple can be virtually painless and only
| lets them know your email address, name, and profile pic if
| oauth is configured reasonably and its easy to tell on your
| side if its not because it asks for the additional
| permissions. You can also sign up with email without making
| the person go through a lot of malarky. Simply send them a
| sign in link instead of doing the whole normal dance. Click
| it and continue on.
|
| If need be they can be prompted to fill out additional data
| if features require it.
| shortrounddev2 wrote:
| I prefer signing in with third party SSO because it's a lower
| chance of yet another website mishandling my password, though I
| use a password manager
| TehCorwiz wrote:
| I personally use a generated email with each service so I can
| track who shares my info. Sso defeats this method of reverse
| tracking.
| oleg009 wrote:
| for privacy reasons? Afaik github is gdpr compliant ... or is
| there some other problem?
| doublerabbit wrote:
| I don't own either service.
| madeofpalk wrote:
| It is a privacy leak to tell Github about what other websites
| or products you are using, that you otherwise wouldn't if you
| just used normal email/password signup.
|
| GDPR only has a tangental relation to privacy. It might be
| "GDPR compliant" for me to publish my nudes to twitter, but
| I've still (voluntarily) lost some privacy for doing so.
| ubavic wrote:
| A little off-topic: I am seeing the same design in 1/3 of links
| that get to to HN front page. The design is clearly a copy of the
| Vercel's design (and maybe they stole it from somewhere else).
| The same typography, gradients, border radius, and definitely the
| same blur effect.
|
| I am happy that 'Corporate Memphis' is dying, but I am not happy
| it is getting replaced with another fad.
|
| Makes me wonder, does someone keep track of web design trends
| trough history?
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36345645 - June 2023 (72
| comments)
| _joel wrote:
| Only works in Chrome/Edge it seems, but they don't tell you that
| until you've done the oauth and created a project, pretty shady.
| oleg009 wrote:
| its because dashboard works in other browsers too, but builder
| is very complex
| ceearrbee wrote:
| How is that a valid reason?
|
| Standard compliance, especially in something like a _website
| builder_ should be a top priority. If the builder doesn 't
| work in major browsers, why there be any confidence that the
| sites it produces will?
| oleg009 wrote:
| when you say confidence, is it because the person who
| builds, can't test in other browsers inside builder?
|
| this is something we are going to solve soon by having
| ability to open up the build url and keeping it in sync
| with the changes.
| oleg009 wrote:
| This would also solve the problem with testing on various
| mobile devices by e.g. using browserstack and similar
| tools or even physical phones.
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