Ask HN: WIX.com equivalent for designing front-ends

Posted by nicksalt on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:13PM
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Hey All, I like building applications in Sinatra and love how easy it is for me design functional front ends in WIX.

Does anyone know if something exist that would allow me design for web and browser and easily export to code that I can place in my sinatra app.

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Re:Ask HN: WIX.com equivalent for designing front-ends by gcatalfamo on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:33PM (#16588055)

https://webflow.com/

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Re:Ask HN: WIX.com equivalent for designing front-ends by nicksalt on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:03PM (#16588275)

Looks awesome. Have you used it? How was the learning curve?

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Re:Ask HN: WIX.com equivalent for designing front-ends by gcatalfamo on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:00PM (#16588701)

You could say it's somewhere between Wix and Photoshop for user experience. Still point and click interface but much more granular in its features. Try a sample project and get a taste.

Then you can export what you need.

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Re:Ask HN: WIX.com equivalent for designing front-ends by hardmile on Thursday March 15, 2018 @09:30AM (#16592634)

Alva is an opensource project worth watching. It's working towards being platform-agnostic.

https://meetalva.io/

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Re:Ask HN: WIX.com equivalent for designing front-ends by iamcreasy on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:30AM (#16591396)

I am not a web developer but isn't Google Web Designer a free alternate?

https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

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Re:Ask HN: WIX.com equivalent for designing front-ends by nicksalt on Thursday March 15, 2018 @09:14AM (#16592499)

It seems as though this is only for creating ads.

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