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by elanning 1491 days ago
Great idea. I think UI/UX designers would love a tool like this. Especially if they could import React components made by the development department.
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It is not a unique concept, but there's absolutely room for another implementation/offering.

Some of the more popular existing ones Framer-X (funny landing page copy claiming it is entirely unique) and Modulz:

https://designcode.io/framer-x

https://www.modulz.app/

Here are some other exciting products in the space: https://www.plasmic.app/ https://www.builder.io/ https://clutch.io/ https://builderx.io/ https://dynaboard.com/ Each one has a slightly different take on the problem, and some of these are turning out to be quite useful for teams. I'm very curious to see how things will shape up. I find Aspect to be particularly beautiful, a nice clean UI great work!
If the components are headless. Otherwise it makes more sense to do it the other way around. Designers write components that just render stuff, which then gets wired up by devs to be state/effectful.
This is what I’m doing. I’ve been building a “programming language” for UI designers. The idea is that they just describe the visual behavior, and then devs can wire it up with business logic.