Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

Re:Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually by callmevlad on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:38PM (#5408355)

Sure! It's Node.js (pretty vanilla Express) on the backend, but most of the heavy lifting is in the browser. After trying Angular, Backbone and Ember, we settled on KnockoutJS for multiple reasons (that's a whole post in itself), the main one being performance (though some may find that statement shocking).

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Re:Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually by ktavera on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:25PM (#5408734)

Good choice with Knockout. I use it in many apps because of how lightweight and easy to implement it is. I've hit some performance problems when tracking large number of observables but overall it can handles 99% of situations nicely.

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Re:Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually by callmevlad on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:48PM (#5409713)

Yep, that's been our experience so far. Believe it or not, but there are north of 100,000 observables on the CSS Playground page alone, so we had to really optimize things. It's still sluggish in some areas, though.

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Re:Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually by stackthatcode on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:43PM (#5412745)

As a KnockoutJS fan, this is completely awesome to hear. It's nice to see my technology of choice pushed to the limit. You guys have really delivered some phenomenal work.

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Re:Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually by bsaul on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:00PM (#5408539)

I'd be really curious to read that post if you ever write it. When i saw the binding betweeen editor widgets and code, i immediately thought of angularJS bindings between model and multiple views, but i don't know KnockoutJS very well, so i'm really curious.

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Re:Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually by tharshan09 on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:09PM (#5409443)

I would be very interested in hearing why you chose that framework. Look forward to the blog post.

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Re:Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually by stevensanderson on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:57PM (#5408511)

Looks awesome - nice work!

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