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Ask HN: What tools/methods do you use for rapid web prototyping?
Since I have a lot of time and ideas on my hands, I try to prototype my ideas as fast as possible because I don't want to forget the inspiration that caused them.
What are your tools for backend/frontend/database design?
My current methods are:
- live-reload on both backend and frontend
- dividing work days into backend+db/frontend only
- LLM prompting for small tasks/snippets
For stack related advice, my current stack is:
- backend: Python(Flask)
- frontend: JS/Bootstrap
- db: sqlite
- tithe 2y agoFor very rough prototypes, a XAMPP localhost with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; ready to go in about 10 seconds. The bottleneck then becomes how fast you can "Ctrl+S, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+R" (or insert a 1 second refresh meta tag on a split screen and "Ctrl+S" only...but after a while even a 1 second refresh starts to feel slow).
- tazu 2y agoA better/newer live-reload technique is a websocket connection on the page listening for filesystem events.