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Show HN: I made a highly opinionated web builder

1 pointsby shirolabout 1 year ago
Hey folks,<p>This is my longest and most complex side-project, which took me approximately ~500 hours of work.<p>- Background I like front-end programming but don&#x27;t like the process of web design. Implementing design in Figma and then reworking it in HTML feels redundant. I want to skip Figma if possible. A solution to streamline that process would be a web builder, I thought. But a web builder like Webflow feels so much more complicated, they GUI-fied every CSS rule. Everything become sliders and buttons just to set a few line of CSS.<p>Framer is a better alternative than Webflow, but still, sometimes I can&#x27;t figure out how to do things that are usually so trivial in CSS. Not to mention that it also doesn&#x27;t support exporting code.<p>- Solution I just want a web builder that&#x27;s basically just text editor but with a few of DX improvements. I think it would be a good idea to couple something like this with a utility-first CSS framework like TailwindCSS. Sure, some people hate Tailwind, but I&#x27;ve been sold to the idea of utility-first CSS since before Tailwind era (using Tachyons). It really improves my dev velocity and I think it can be improved further if there&#x27;s a better tool that interface with it. That&#x27;s why I made Rakit Studio. You should really check that out. It&#x27;s free, basically like JSFiddle but crafted specifically for creating web pages with TailwindCSS.<p>Feedback is really appreciated.<p>Cheers and have a happy day! :D

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