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Re:Figma Alternatives by yaaang on Friday September 23, 2022 @11:48PM (#32959581)
I don't follow how HTML comes anything close to expressing dynamism, composition, state, Turing completeness, etc.

Sure, you can encode whatever you want inside of data attributes, but that's just ignoring the problem. You still have to decide on a language to express all that within your data attributes.

React server components also does not is not trying to serialize this. Quite the opposite. We have an in-depth write up here: https://www.plasmic.app/blog/how-react-server-components-wor...

(Sise note: Plasmic's AST is in the open and has an API.)

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Re:Figma Alternatives by Existenceblinks on Saturday September 24, 2022 @01:29AM (#32959948)
I did a quick dig on Plasmic's AST and not found its spec. Is there a repo for its specification?
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Re:Figma Alternatives by Existenceblinks on Saturday September 24, 2022 @01:22AM (#32959919)
> 2. Server serializes root component element to JSON

That's what I'm talking about.

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