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Comment by tluyben2

4 years ago

It’s better than fighting with a gui tool if you care about gui. I just need something to work and then give it to someone. I still haven’t found anything productive outside something like retool (cannot use cloud for the work I do) that works for me. Most wysiwyg tools now use drag and drop to containers that are responsive etc which I find impossible and tedious to use. I want to throw stuff on a canvas and hook it up to the backend I made, test it and then throw the code to a frontend colleague. Found nothing usable like Delphi (used it for 10 years in the 90s/00s) but for html for that yet; it’s all tedious, slow and usually incredibly buggy.

I am a senior (30 years+) software engineer and html/css really doesn’t work for me. I can do it but I find it boring and annoying.

If you just want to slap something together, why not use a GUI to edit a Swing frontend?

Or do you specifically mean an interactive HTML front-end, something I don't think you could make in DreamWaver either?