I've been investigating ideas for rapidly developing frontends. One angle I've been interested in is making a highly keyboard-driven design tool, something like a "vim for marking up UI". First experiment is this concise syntax for specifying style props using styled-system.pic.twitter.com/iIZqcpR0jm
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Replying to @yoshikischmitz
This is brilliant. I think part of the reason WYSIWYG React tools have failed is because they tried to force all the complexity into a drag and drop model. Have you seen Emmet before? Interesting grammar that expands to HTML https://emmet.io/
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Replying to @maxkriegers
Thanks! In this tool I'm interested in exploring what it's like to multiply the effectiveness of coding as-it-is, and emmet is actually a really great example of that done well. I had forgotten about it, thanks for sharing.
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Replying to @yoshikischmitz @maxkriegers
Direct manipulation approaches deserve attention too, and I think have a huge amount of potential for specifying rich layouts and behavior, but I think they are really hard to do well in the DOM.
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Absolutely, SwiftUI seems more promising on the bidirectional WYSIWYG front
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