[robertlagrant]

> All components use to build Makeswift sites are React components and we are planning on opening that up so that third-party developers can create components any Makeswift user could drop in to their website

I'm being a bit facetious, but why would you need this if marketers can control everything already? :-)

[migueloller]

Hah, all good. We give them _visual_ control of everything. But say you wanted to make a component that pull the last 10 tweets from an account or a Stripe Checkout button or some other custom component, then you can.

Any React component is already a Makeswift component, the question is, how do you get the props? Well we've got a whole bunch of what we call prop controllers for basic stuff like numbers, colors, images, padding, margin, etc. You can also make your own. For example, in the Twitter feed component, you might make a panel that lets you search for tweets and then once you pick the account it passes the Twitter username to the component as a prop. The component can then fetch the tweets using the Twitter API, etc.

We have plans to open source all of our components as a reference for third-party developers building their own custom Makeswift components. Also, if you're a company that already has an internal design system built in React, your marketing team can just drop those in to your Makeswift site (constrained by the props the developers decide to expose).

This is all internal right now, though. I can't wait until we can release this API to the public, haha.

[vagrantJin]

Dumb question. Does React matter in using the service - like an advantage of something like wordpress or shopify?

[migueloller]

It will give us the opportunity to let developers build their own components, allow us to use frameworks like Next.js to power our users' sites, and let us leverage the ecosystem to build cool components and integrations. So as far as the end-user is concerned this should result in better performance, more options for components, and easier extensibility if they are developers.