oahmadov

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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Thank you!
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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Believe me, writing HTML for email that works for most clients is notoriously hard, no amount of code experience can help with that :) This was exactly the reason I went with MJML. Consumer should focus on designing the email, Templatical t
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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Totally agree on edge case quirks of MJML - or more like weird behaviors in Outlook. With so many email services and clients around, nothing can provide 100% bulletproof solution but I think MJML is as close as it gets to works-for-majority
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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Thank you!
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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Thanks for the star!
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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Thanks :) I know each framework has its pros/cons, opinionated in a certain way. Vue is my favorite. TipTap was the easy half. It's basically the go-to option when a good WYSIWYG editor is needed.
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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Holy shit, it's you! Thank you, that genuinely means a lot coming from you! GrapesJS is the forever OG that proved this whole space could be an embeddable SDK rather than a paywalled SaaS. It also standardized the palette/canvas&#
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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Happy to hear you found it useful. :) I'd love to hear your feedback on what worked and what didn't. Feel free to open an issue or start a discussion on GitHub.
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   by oahmadov 5mo ago

   Thanks for the star :) And yeah — at this stage every star is statistically significant, so anyone reading: appreciated.
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    People who know how painful email HTML is are the exact audience here. I believe MJML is the best thing that happened to emails — eliminates almost all the cross-client compatibility quirks. If your team gives it a spin, I'd genuinely
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    Yes! If you attempt the migration, I'd love to hear your feedback on what worked and what didn't. GitHub Issues / Discussions both open.
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    Amazing to hear :) If you ship your app with it, send a link — happy to feature it on the showcase page. Also, if you have existing HTML-based templates, try the @templatical/import-html package to convert them to Templatical JSON true
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    Thanks. No — built from scratch on Vue 3 + TipTap, no React anywhere. Output is MJML, not the React-component-to-HTML approach React Email takes. Adjacent category but no shared foundation: React Mail is a code-first library for devs to wri
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    Thanks — yes on both, and both already exist today. 1. Custom block extensibility: full. You define a custom block as a schema — typed fields displayed in the editor (text, textarea, image, color, number, select, boolean, repeatable that co
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    Thanks — this is exactly the audience I built it for. The cross-client rendering thing is why Templatical outputs MJML instead of raw HTML. MJML was built to abstract all the table-based, Outlook-2007-quirks, Gmail-strips-style nonsense — y
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    Yeah, I get what you mean about UI. But honestly that similarity is also a selling point — people are used to how visual editors look and work. Shipping a drastically different UI is a hard sell. GrapesJS — the OG embeddable visual builder.
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    Hand-rolled in Vue 3 using Claude Code :) I was considering IntroJS, but Claude Code generated a simpler version in ~120 lines — just @vueuse/core helpers (useLocalStorage, useIntervalFn) and focus-trap, no tour library.
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    No — built from scratch on Vue 3 + TipTap. Different data model entirely: Templatical stores templates as a typed JSON tree of blocks and renders them as MJML; GrapesJS is a generic HTML/CSS page-builder retrofitted for email via an MJ
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    No — and this is actually one of the real architectural differences from the closed-source competitors like Beefree and Unlayer. The SDK is fully client-side — it runs in your app, the JSON templates go wherever you decide to store them (yo
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    by oahmadov 5mo ago

    Thanks. Honestly, I hadn't heard of Maily until your comment :) Just spent a few minutes with it. Looks like a clean React-first editor. I can't directly compare it with Maily, but what I see from first glance is that it is a mini
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    Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer(play.templatical.com)

    169 points by oahmadov 5mo ago|48 comments