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Plasmic – A headless page builder

105 points by mosr 5y ago

alangibson 5y ago
Looks cool. These sort of block editors are definitely the standard for building pages these days. Does anyone have any real world experience using it with Vue? EDIT: Nevermind. There doesn't seem to be a fully self-hosted option for the editor.
- tmikaeld 5y ago
  As long as it’s still difficult to create a (usable & reliable) site editor, these services will keep being subscription only. It annoys me when they try to make it look open source but it’s only a glorified api client.. same with builder.io [0] [0] https://www.builder.io/m/visual-cms https://www.builder.io/m/visual-cms
  - yaaang 5y ago
    Really not trying to mislead/annoy - Plasmic's client libraries are open source and on GitHub, but not the visual editor currently. Will add clarification to the repo, but any other suggestions are welcome.
tluyben2 5y ago
This as open source would be great. When you see a github link you assume it is, or is that just me?
- sidpatil 5y ago
  It looks like the project is released under the MIT license, judging from the LICENSE.md and the license information in the README.
  - tmikaeld 5y ago
    The editor is not open source, it's just a client SDK towards their API.
edude03 5y ago
This seems like a closed source version of tinacms or am I wrong?
- yaaang 5y ago
  It's different from TinaCMS because it's a full free-form page builder/web design tool. The developer doesn't need to write any CMS template/schema code. TinaCMS is like other headless CMSes with visual editors, where you're limited to using blocks that developers need to code up. (Both support Markdown text content editing and drag/drop of your own components.)
omnicognate 5y ago
In what sense "headless"?
- qorrect 5y ago
  Seriously why are they calling this headless
- yaaang 5y ago
  (Copying response from elsewhere) It's headless as in "headless CMS" - Plasmic is decoupled from your frontend stack, which you run and own. The content you design is delivered via API into your site/app.
ThinkBeat 5y ago
I dont understand what this means: ""Create stunning visual content and pages, seamlessly integrating no-code into your codebase. Unblock your teams and ship lightning fast"" Is this a visual web editor that come with vendor / hosting lock in? (+ hooking into web hooks)
- yaaang 5y ago
  It's the opposite - it has no vendor/hosting lock-in. You run and own your own frontend stack, hosting, etc. Plasmic is a visual editor that plugs into your stack.
  - ThinkBeat 5y ago
    The pricing page defines how many page views you can have https://www.plasmic.app/pricing https://www.plasmic.app/pricing 10K monthly page views 250K monthly page views If they dont handle hosting the page themselves do they have code to record every pageview on my server stack?
    - yaaang 5y ago
      The API-based integration does track impressions. Besides that, you can also use codegen, which doesn't.
manojlds 5y ago
I don't know what headless means here.
- ghkbrew 5y ago
  You interact with it through a web browser. So the server software can be installed on a computer without a display. It's technically correct I guess, but not terribly relevant.
- Iwan-Zotow 5y ago
  you don't need display rack servers etc
- yaaang 5y ago
  It's headless as in "headless CMS" - Plasmic is decoupled from your frontend stack, which you run and own. The content you design is delivered via API into your site/app.
DonnyV 5y ago
Hard to tell if the designer app comes with the github repo. https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic
csbartus 5y ago
At the first read it seems to be the silver bullet we've been all waiting for: Code, design and content mashed up in a way nobody has to do (almost) nothing, and it just spits out stunning web stuff in half-time. A win-win-win situation. I guess I'll take a nap and I'll come back.
claytongulick 5y ago
I was ready to open my wallet, then saw it was "pseudo open source". Shame. Looks really cool.
cedricd 5y ago
Has anyone used some of these in production? Tina, Builder, Storybloks, React Bricks, or this one? Curious what the experience is like.
- yaaang 5y ago
  You may be interested in https://plasmic.app/casestudies https://plasmic.app/casestudies. Note that Plasmic is different from these because it's a full free-form web design tool, so it doesn't restrict you to blocks that also have be authored by developers.
rendall 5y ago
Very, very cool. I've been needing something like this to help out a no-code friend. Also I made a minor PR https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic/pull/25 https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic/pull/25 Also did that from bed on my mobile while binge-watching TV. I like living here in the future

105 points by mosr 5y ago

Looks cool. These sort of block editors are definitely the standard for building pages these days. Does anyone have any real world experience using it with Vue? EDIT: Nevermind. There doesn't seem to be a fully self-hosted option for the editor.

tmikaeld 5y ago
As long as it’s still difficult to create a (usable & reliable) site editor, these services will keep being subscription only. It annoys me when they try to make it look open source but it’s only a glorified api client.. same with builder.io [0] [0] https://www.builder.io/m/visual-cms https://www.builder.io/m/visual-cms
- yaaang 5y ago
  Really not trying to mislead/annoy - Plasmic's client libraries are open source and on GitHub, but not the visual editor currently. Will add clarification to the repo, but any other suggestions are welcome.

tluyben2 5y ago

This as open source would be great. When you see a github link you assume it is, or is that just me?

sidpatil 5y ago
It looks like the project is released under the MIT license, judging from the LICENSE.md and the license information in the README.
- tmikaeld 5y ago
  The editor is not open source, it's just a client SDK towards their API.

edude03 5y ago

This seems like a closed source version of tinacms or am I wrong?

yaaang 5y ago
It's different from TinaCMS because it's a full free-form page builder/web design tool. The developer doesn't need to write any CMS template/schema code. TinaCMS is like other headless CMSes with visual editors, where you're limited to using blocks that developers need to code up. (Both support Markdown text content editing and drag/drop of your own components.)

omnicognate 5y ago

In what sense "headless"?

qorrect 5y ago
Seriously why are they calling this headless
yaaang 5y ago
(Copying response from elsewhere) It's headless as in "headless CMS" - Plasmic is decoupled from your frontend stack, which you run and own. The content you design is delivered via API into your site/app.

ThinkBeat 5y ago

I dont understand what this means: ""Create stunning visual content and pages, seamlessly integrating no-code into your codebase. Unblock your teams and ship lightning fast"" Is this a visual web editor that come with vendor / hosting lock in? (+ hooking into web hooks)

yaaang 5y ago
It's the opposite - it has no vendor/hosting lock-in. You run and own your own frontend stack, hosting, etc. Plasmic is a visual editor that plugs into your stack.
- ThinkBeat 5y ago
  The pricing page defines how many page views you can have https://www.plasmic.app/pricing https://www.plasmic.app/pricing 10K monthly page views 250K monthly page views If they dont handle hosting the page themselves do they have code to record every pageview on my server stack?
  - yaaang 5y ago
    The API-based integration does track impressions. Besides that, you can also use codegen, which doesn't.

manojlds 5y ago

I don't know what headless means here.

ghkbrew 5y ago
You interact with it through a web browser. So the server software can be installed on a computer without a display. It's technically correct I guess, but not terribly relevant.
Iwan-Zotow 5y ago
you don't need display rack servers etc
yaaang 5y ago
It's headless as in "headless CMS" - Plasmic is decoupled from your frontend stack, which you run and own. The content you design is delivered via API into your site/app.

DonnyV 5y ago

Hard to tell if the designer app comes with the github repo. https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic

csbartus 5y ago

At the first read it seems to be the silver bullet we've been all waiting for: Code, design and content mashed up in a way nobody has to do (almost) nothing, and it just spits out stunning web stuff in half-time. A win-win-win situation. I guess I'll take a nap and I'll come back.

claytongulick 5y ago

I was ready to open my wallet, then saw it was "pseudo open source". Shame. Looks really cool.

cedricd 5y ago

Has anyone used some of these in production? Tina, Builder, Storybloks, React Bricks, or this one? Curious what the experience is like.

yaaang 5y ago
You may be interested in https://plasmic.app/casestudies https://plasmic.app/casestudies. Note that Plasmic is different from these because it's a full free-form web design tool, so it doesn't restrict you to blocks that also have be authored by developers.

rendall 5y ago

Very, very cool. I've been needing something like this to help out a no-code friend. Also I made a minor PR https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic/pull/25 https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic/pull/25 Also did that from bed on my mobile while binge-watching TV. I like living here in the future