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Is anyone here who has shifted exclusively to visual react builders ? I have been writing react since version 0.11 and am considering shifting to a visual for

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• albert_e 3y ago
  I am probably your opposite ... I recently learnt basic React in a weekend and built a functional MVP webapp by hand. For a second iteration of the app, I asked ChatGPT (Plus) to help me. Gave it existing code and gave increasingly specific UI and behavior requirements. After a few hours of pair programming ... I had a working new page (with backend API integration). The UI behavior I wanted went fairly deep -- with a lot of conditional logic to render styles, handle double clicks on text to make them editable form fields, etc. I am impressed with this approach at least for prototyping and MVPs. The resulting page was surely not very maintainable due to the complexity of embedded logic and conditionals ... but again I wouldnt have managed to manually code such complexity myself. Maybe if forced to do it manually i would have learnt more, modularized my code more, but spend a week instead of a day achieving the result. I am not a career developer -- so for my use case I will take this productivity boost. I think there is a great opportunity to merge a visual UI builder like this (puck) and an LLM backend/interface to radically improve productivity and make prototyping as well as building real apps (production grade, modularized, maintainable) much more easier to build.