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mui-toolpad
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FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster
This seems to mainly be useful for spinning up quick and dirty internal tools.
But for that use-case, isn't it easier to use something visual and established like Retool (https://retool.com/) or that generates nice react code, like MUI Toolpad (https://mui.com/toolpad/)?
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Plasmic.app – the visual builder for your tech stack
How does it stack up against MUI's Toolpad? (https://mui.com/toolpad/)
All things considered, they seem pretty similar - visual UI to generate React code that works alongside existing codebase, open-source & self-hostable, etc.
- just discovered MUI and...
- I hate CSS: how can I build UIs?
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Show HN: MUI Toolpad – Open-source, local-first, admin app builder
- All configuration is stored in local files which you can version-control, edit, and deploy in any way you want.
You can check out our live demo [1]. If you find it useful, you can support us by giving a star on GitHub [2]. We released our public beta [3] this week. We are happy to answer any questions/feedback in the comments.
[1]: https://stackblitz.com/fork/github/mui/mui-toolpad/tree/mast...
[2]: https://github.com/mui/mui-toolpad
[3]: https://mui.com/blog/2023-toolpad-beta-announcement/
- MUI Toolpad: Turn Your APIs, Scripts, SQL into UIs
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Ask HN: How can a BE/infra developer handle the FE side of personal projects?
- Vercel for hosting, because they take a Git repo and host it for you in a couple clicks and manage everything. Free or cheap ($20/mo) at MVP stage.
- Next.js (Vercel's open-source React framework) will handle frontend tooling, routing, type checking, and linting for you with a single command (`npx create-next-app`). Starting the server is one more command (`next dev`) and your page is up and running.
- For the UI layer, I'd recommend either starting with one of their prebuilt templates (https://vercel.com/templates/next.js) and modifying it as needed
OR using a modern component system like https://mui.com/ or https://ant.design/ or https://chakra-ui.com/ instead of trying to learn and write your own component and JS+CSS code. Using one of these systems will allow you to compose complex apps out of well-made, well-documented, easy-to-use primitives, making it much easier to focus on business needs rather than basic frontend components and infra.
The basic MUI system, for example, is totally free. You can find third-party apps built on top of it (https://mui.com/store/#populars) and pay a one-time license fee to essentially "fork" them, getting a prebuilt working app that you just attach your backend API calls to.
There are also low-code extensions of these frameworks (meaning you start with a GUI, plan out your app that way, but still have access to the source for future advanced changes). Examples are https://mui.com/toolpad/ and https://retool.com/use-case/dashboards-and-reporting
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Is this a lot? Yes and no. React has a learning curve of its own, but it can take the place of having to learn raw HTML and CSS. (Yes, you eventually should know those things for debugging and polishing, but they are largely a level of abstraction below what you really need for a basic MVP).
Once you learn React, its primary value isn't that it's a great language (opinions differ) but that it has a humongous ecosystem of third-party vendors, free open-source libraries (basically any component you might think to build is probably already available on npm), and a wide availability of devs from hobbyists to full-timers.
Others in this topic will suggest going away from Javascript as much as possible (and using things like HTMX or backend-to-HTML solutions like the old days). That's fine, but you lose out on the rich ecosystem of React and Javascript, so you end up having to build more yourself -- which is what you're trying to avoid in your case.
My own 2¢: As someone who grew up with HTML and made websites since the birth of Javascript and CSS, the web has always been messy. It's always been a semi-open ecosystem controlled by a few major companies (whether that's Netscape or Microsoft or Sun or Adobe, or these days Google and Apple), so it very much suffers from design-by-bullying. Whoever is the power player of the decade gets to add their favorite technologies that everyone else is forced to adopt. Thus the web became a hodgepodge of document markup systems poorly fitted for modern apps, with various hacks on top of hacks built to satisfy some big company or another's in-house needs. Sadly, that means going "vanilla HTML+JS" doesn't leave you with much, just the shattered legacy of poor historical decisions.
React at least helps by encouraging componentization and abstraction of UI elements to functions, using cleaner data models (actual variables and objects) vs direct DOM manipulation (storing page content as state).
We've gone through many generational shifts in approach, from the raw HTML days of Geocities to the you-build-it, we-host-it approach of Godaddy and its ilk, to the "all in one" CMSes like Wordpress or Drupal. These days, (if you want there to be), there can be a pretty clear separation between backend and frontend systems, and with that specialization came a bunch of startups (mentioned above) whose approach is "let us help you build it as best as we can, so you can focus on business logic instead of basic UI and infra". After 20 years of doing this, the current state of the web developer experience is actually my favorite so far. HTML and CSS suck for building apps (as opposed to documents), and although Javascript is a lot better since ECMAscript v6 (ES6), it is still inextricably tied to the DOM (and thus HTML elements) unless you use an abstraction like React.
It's the difference between writing something like:
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What is the most used react UI framework ? need to visual drag and drop app
We at MUI have been working on an open-source drag-and-drop React app builder. Link to the landing page: https://mui.com/toolpad/ This week we have published an interactive demo as well. You can check out the repo here.
Foundation
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Front-end Framework: Comparing Bootstrap, Foundation and Materialize
Foundation is another popular open-source front-end framework, similar to Bootstrap, but with its own set of features and design principles. It was created by ZURB a design and development company in 2011. and is also maintained by a community of developers.
- I hate CSS: how can I build UIs?
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Top 5 CSS Frameworks
2. Foundation
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An Overview of 25+ UI Component Libraries in 2023
Just when we thought we'd seen it all, giants like Twitter Bootstrap, Foundation, and Bulma entered the scene. They made development quick and ensured consistent styling, but the flip side? Websites began feeling a bit too...uniform.
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Ur Go-To on UI with Flask?
Foundation is also easy to use since no one has mentioned it. Copy and paste, tons of templates ready to go. https://get.foundation/
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Foundation: The Best Framework for Building Responsive Sites
Download the source files manually: You can download the source files by visiting https://get.foundation and clicking on "Download Foundation 6", which automatically downloads the CSS and JavaScript. Once you extract the Zip file, you can start creating excellent projects with Foundation.
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8 CSS Frameworks to create wonderful websites.
Foundation The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Foundation is a family of responsive front-end frameworks that make it easy to design beautiful responsive websites, apps and emails that look amazing on any device.(From their official website).Foundation is used by big organizations such as; Disney, Samsung, Adobe, National Geographic, e.t.c
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My Journey to Becoming a Full Stack Developer
I was definitely not a "full stack developer" on day one, or year one, two or three. At least I didn't call myself one for a long time. For one thing, the term "full stack developer" wasn't popular at the time. But as JavaScript libraries (jQuery) and frameworks (Angular, React) became common place in the industry, and CSS libraries (Bootstrap, Foundation) replaced writing your stylesheets by hand, there became demand to be capable in both the front-end and back-end of an application.
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for someone who do desktop app all the time. what i need to switch to web with c# background?
If you decide to go the second route, just focus on a front end framework and mock out an API with something like Postman (much like you'd mock one out for a unit test). You will deeeefinitely need to know not only Javascript, but the ecosystem that comes along with it (Node, npm, maybe Jest or Typescript). You will also need to know CSS, and possibly a UI framework like Bootstrap or Foundation.
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California Stylesheets - the no-workflow, no-code, custom-property-powered modern CSS file that works like a framework
Whoa. Last I looked, Foundation was a project in flux. Glad to see it seeing more activity lately.
What are some alternatives?
appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
primereact - The Most Complete React UI Component Library
Bulma - Modern CSS framework based on Flexbox
mantine - A fully featured React components library
devilbox - A modern Docker LAMP stack and MEAN stack for local development
n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
Material UI - Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.
plasmic - Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.
devdocs - API Documentation Browser
Materialize - Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design