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by rsp1984 1060 days ago
> Is your concern with the fact that clients can lay out their sites with blocks?

Not so much.

> If it's with not being able to use a local IDE - that is something that's currently possible by bundling your Svelte components into vanilla JS and importing them into your Primo blocks & passing along data as fields - but I'd give it a couple weeks before using it in production until we smooth it out.

Yes. As a developer I don't want to deal with WYSIWYG drag-n-drop interfaces. I want the freedom to develop using my already established workflows. What you suggest sounds like development for the Primo interface, i.e. Primo dictates the high-level structure and I can develop components for it. What I'd like is at the other end of the spectrum: I develop the entire website in Svelte and make it compatible with Primo by adhering to some constraints.

> But what you've described is essentially how I do my client projects - I build it all with code (usually reusing blocks from other projects) and hand off a site that literally any of my clients can edit on day one with minimal training.

Sounds like we're on the same page then :)