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This is great. Going to give it a shot later today. A side now, I think React (and other one-way, two way data flow frameworks like Vue) with modern ES6, CSS3-

This is great. Going to give it a shot later today. A side now, I think React (and other one-way, two way data flow frameworks like Vue) with modern ES6, CSS3-flexbox primitives, are setup well to be taken to the IDE -- to an almost Visual Basic level of drag and drop, and event handling. Somehow HTML5 never got the IDE love -- because of it's extremely flexibility. I'd trade a lot of that for a convention over configuration IDE based framework, that just allowed me to easily handle views, routes and storage. I hope Reactide (and more other HTML5 IDEs) show up and win perhaps the largest developer community there is.

anilgulecha 10y ago
Quickly looking at Reactide -- it looks like you're being flexible enough ("build-tool agnostic") not be able to take over the full IDE experience. IMO, you should select a particular stack (react as framework, flexbox for layout, webpack as build tool, environemnt modes and their default packing strategies, asset merging and building as needed), and mercilessly optimized for that user-flow path. Ideally, an IDE that can allow me to drag drop my flexbox based layout, and allow me to double click the "submit" button and take me to the event handler function for this click, pre-generating all the required stubs, would be an IDE that I'd switch to, just for the productivity gain it would give me.
beaconstudios 10y ago
I'm actually working on something very similar to what you've described - a GUI-driven modern web app designer that exports to React, Node and CSS3. It's turning out to be a really good match. If you want me to let you know when it comes out, drop me an email :)
- anilgulecha 10y ago
  Done.