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Next level web scraping that takes any web app and fully groks its structure, devolving it to a JSON-like document that encapsulates all form elements, design e
by lubujackson 7y ago
Next level web scraping that takes any web app and fully groks its structure, devolving it to a JSON-like document that encapsulates all form elements, design elements and extrapolates some basic validation rules and the underlying data structure. Load that into a universal editor, work on the metacode. Since we are dreaming, compile that metacode back to any number of frontend/backend combo templates. The result would always be incomplete, but it would give you an amazing base for knocking out projects.
Web design seems to be unifying around progressive web design principles and too many devs spend way too much time recreating the same variations of CRUD apps.
If any new web feature could be distilled to a metacode base and then restructured from there we could maybe find a way to escape this nightmarish hydra of web technologies.
- Glench 7y agoYou might be interested in this project: https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1224094967922073600?s=21 https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1224094967922073600?... There’s a paper about it coming soon that gets more into some of the things you mentioned.