Show HN: Websites and Apps Built Without a Single Line of Code

Re:Show HN: Websites and Apps Built Without a Single Line of... by pavlov on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @11:39AM (#13821364)

... if you don't own the code you are just renting your app.

This is a really important point IMO, and a major problem with the business model of most "app builder" type platforms.

Owning the code matters even to non-developers. Anything beyond a static prototype can be expected to require custom programming at some point, but it's typically impossible if you are locked in as a "renter" on a closed WYSIWYG platform.

I've worked on a couple of projects that have tried to solve parts of this, most recently a product called React Studio. It just launched in version 1.0:

https://reactstudio.com

It's a visual front-end design tool that export high-quality React code and complete projects using Facebook's "create-react-app" toolchain (Node, Webpack, Babel).

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Re:Show HN: Websites and Apps Built Without a Single Line of... by throwaway2016a on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @11:54AM (#13821490)

This looks really awesome. I'm downloading a demo now to give it a spin. Good work.

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