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Announcing the new Jetstrap for Twitter Bootstrap Development
- eah13 14y agoBig improvements. Nice progress.
- m3ntat 14y agoVery cool, great work!
- helloimben 14y agoThank you!
- dbla 14y agoThe code editor is really slick. Did you build it from scratch or is it a library?
- yesimahuman 14y agoWe used Ace for the editing, and then basically just listen for changes and update the document. There is more we could do there to really integrate it, but it's a nice start.
- jamieb 14y agoAce?
- JosephRedfern 14y agohttp://ajaxorg.github.io/ace/ http://ajaxorg.github.io/ace/
- yesimahuman 14y agoCodeMirror (http://codemirror.net/ http://codemirror.net/) and Brackets (http://brackets.io/ http://brackets.io/) are two other popular ones, though I've not used them.
- hayksaakian 14y agoInteresting that in the last 6mnths to 1 year for everything I see on HN pushing a yearly subscription model. While it's certainly proven to make more $, I wonder what the repercussions really are.
- yesimahuman 14y agoI think our pricing model will evolve over time. Right now it's a bit simpler to start this way, but we have a lot of ideas on how to make the model fit the use case better. We've also had some success with the subscription model for some other projects we've worked on, so there is some precedent there.
- orangethirty 14y agoHave you tested dropping or severely limiting the free plan?
- yesimahuman 14y agoWe will probably try restricting/modifying the free plan over time. For better or for worse we are easing into the payment stuff.
- contrahax 14y agoWhen I first saw this a while back it wasn't really any good but now it feels pretty slick. Keep up the good work!
- yesimahuman 14y agoThat gave me a chuckle :) You know what they say: if you aren't embarrassed by your first release you waited too long.
- alexdevkar 14y agoReally like the simplicity. If I pay for a year, what changes can I expect in that time?
- mleaconsulting 14y agoGood stuff. This will make prototyping stuff for client simple as hell. I am a lazy lazy man
- aram 14y agoGood idea and looking great! I just signed up and here are a few observations: - the editor is stuck every few minutes on latest Chrome - helper buttons (clone/delete) disappear after a few moves - content elements are disappearing when typing (heading titles on marketing layout) - not sure if that triggered some shortcut - the "undo" button is missing there badly
- yesimahuman 14y agoAh, sorry about that. I will take a look and see where the issue is. Thanks!
- aram 14y agoYou're welcome!
- danvoell 14y agoHow much for just the T-shirt? Nice work guys, keep up the great work!
- arikrak 14y agoNice. Between Jetstrap, Divshot, and Easel, there's no shortage of WYSIWYG Bootstrap apps. The question is which one will offer the best options for creating code for an actual dynamic website. I.e. it would be great to use something to do all the design of Rails site, but it seems like it would involve a lot of copying and pasting.
- yesimahuman 14y agoAll great tools. I think the challenge is fitting into a developer's work flow at that level of intimacy to their app. To that end, we will probably end up targeting a different type of user, but those details are still evolving.
- JustARandomGuy 14y agoGreat work! One feature request: Allow the user to deploy straight to a GitHub repository or perhaps FTP. I realize we can just export the HTML/CSS/JS and upload ourselves, but this would be much faster and simpler. Would be fine if this feature was limited to paying customers.
- beatpanda 14y agoSuper stoked to inherit a bunch of half-finished front end projects started in this app, where step one is to remove all of the hard-coded list seperators, "<i>" tags, and "span6" classes
- yesimahuman 14y agoDo you have more info on what is wrong with the markup? From the comment all I can make out is those are normal bootstrap constructs (span6 being a grid span). I'd like to fix the issues you are having (though this new version has even cleaner exported markup).
- beatpanda 14y agoWhat's wrong with the markup is that it conforms to the Bootstrap documentation, and the way the Bootstrap docs recommend writing HTML is absolute garbage. <i class="dipshit-icon"> is the spacer.gif of my generation.
- beatpanda 14y agoAnd that is no fault of your own - I applaud your effort to make a useful WYSIWYG editor for markup. Its the fault of the creators of Bootstrap for making it really easy for lots of people to write terrible HTML.
- oneeyedpigeon 14y agoI also find it very frustrating that Bootstrap encourages such markup. To be fair, the icons are by far the worst culprit; less-than-perfectly-semantic markup is a by-product of almost every grid framework out there, and much of the remaining markup is fairly clean, albeit a little verbose. What would be super-awesome would be a version of Jetstrap that is framework-agnostic - i.e. one in which the available classes and their suggested structure is customisable. That sounds like a much harder problem to solve, but probably one that's worth someone doing.
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- zenstealth 14y agoThis looks like a nice Bootstrap editor. I tried it, and it worked great but for some strange reason the backspace key won't work at all.
- yesimahuman 14y agoGah! Just pushed a fix. Moved too quickly and broke that.
- akst 14y agoI'm using firefox on os x, and I'm getting some weird anti-aliasing on some of the sites text, for example my user name on the header bar + the text in the lower right corner on the dashboard page. Other than that, looks great.
- mkoble11 14y agoJetstrap reminds me of Divshot - another great interface builder: http://www.divshot.com http://www.divshot.com Great job! Glad to see some startups out there trying to make it easier to create :)
- dannyp32 14y agoPlease vertically center the text on those buttons!