Comment by cadamsdotcom
5 hours ago
Sorry, just trying to understand.
Are you saying you invented hot reload? And a dev tools css editor?
I am confused, because the ability to edit code and have the page update instantly exists with Vite, and next.js, and a bunch of other frameworks. It’s janky at times but good enough for most - and your edits are in your repo ready to commit. And browser CSS inspectors are really great. And there’s the React DevTools if you need to see props & component hierarchy.
Can you explain the value add over all these free things we already have?
> Are you saying you invented hot reload?
I'm not saying that, no. We are super dependent upon HMR servers from Vite/Next.
We made the ability to write back from your dev panel to your filesystem and made a JSX inspector. As far as I know these are not things supported by either Next or Vite.
> And browser CSS inspectors are really great
I couldn't agree more. I agree so much that we wanted to make one so that you could do the same to JSX as you can do to HTML.
> Can you explain the value add over all these free things we already have?
You should watch the demo video!