TL;DR - Introducing Codux, a new visual IDE for easing and accelerating the development of React projects. Learn more about it here, or join the co...
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Congratulations!
It's amazing how far back we regressed from the ease of visual basic. There's so much room to improve front end development. Good luck.
Really puts the competition to shame. There must be a skill gap
This reminds me of Sencha Architect + Themer (and some things Telerik did in same timeframe) which has been around for over 15 years. Those products had massive potential and was still around today.
Sencha really were a pioneer in Javascript tooling and frameworks. Their command line tools and dnd gui builder are still first class and inspired many of the build tools we have today in web in general.
Great to see a new breed of Gui builder. Just wish it wasn't locked to react and also did vue/angular/extjs/etc...
Taking this one for a spin today! 😍
It's free right now, but are there any plans to open source it? Or will it eventually be a closed source paid product?
I have a use case where I'd like to embed the editor in a webpage: the resulting code would be written to the URL instead of the disk, similar to SEEK's Playroom - do you imagine this being a possibility in the future?
Would LOVE to hear your thoughts once you give it a go :)
It is free right now and will always be free for open source projects. At this stage we're not thinking monitization, but more interested in usecases like yours and what you plan on doing with Codux.
We are working on a fully online version of Codux, and pluggability/extendability system. It seems to me like the combination of the two would answer your usecaes and much more!
Regrading the open sourcing of Codux itself - We already have some of the tooling used to build Codux open sourced and will add to that in the future. We are not planning to open source the entire platform itself for now.
Would be dope if you could allow this to use Tailwind to do the styling, potentially a minefield but for those of us that use it would be pretty amazing
We're going to add support for tailwind CSS soon.
it's at the top of our list for the next CSS solution to support.
Awesome. I don’t suppose you have time for styled components?
CSS in JS is going to be more complex to support, it's supported for rendering but adding it to the style panel is going to take us more time,
it's on our list.
IMO our very own stylable.io is better for managing design systems. you should check it out.
I thought that might be the case. So I was looking through the docs and was having trouble finding just examples of what the different styling options looked like, in use. It was a lot of set up and semantics. Did I miss the quick code samples?
We currently support CSS and SASS. Both with or without css-modules, and our very own Stylable.
Would love to hear what you would have liked to see in the docs.
Let me know if you would agree to jump on a chat with us.
Thanks
Fascinating idea. I'll be sure to try it out!
Great article!
When I tried to access the website codux.com/, my security software(Bitdefender) blocked it citing "dangerous software"
Looking at VirusTotal two vendors classify your URL as malicious.
A bad domain reputation may cost you some users. Would recommend getting in touch with the vendors to have this fixed.
We managed to clear up the issue (I hope 🫣). Thanks again!
We really appreciate the heads up and taking care of this right now 🙏
Sounds really cool. If I was still creating projects in React I would give a try for sure :)
what are you creating projects in these days?
I'm actually a DevRel these days so I have fewer chances to touch code directly and more chances to explain it to others :)
Codux is absolutely amazing! 🎉 Way to go folks, I wish you much success. 😎
It says download node js even though I have already NodeJs installed in my device
I thought it was due to NVM so I put static path in my variable to NodeJS
but it still does not work can you please help me so I can try out this tool
I have m1 pro mac running mac os 13
and I gave path to NodeJS version 18
Hi, I am Sagiv, a team member at Codux.
When using NVM I'd suggest running the following:
nvm alias default 18in your terminalThen restart Codux.
The
nvm alias defaultcommand sets the specified version of Node.js as the default version to be used when a new terminal session is opened.Please let me know if it helped you.
Also, I recommend opening a ticket so we can assist you further: Contact Us.
To help us better understand your issue, you can include screenshots, error logs, and other relevant details in your ticket.
I tried this but it did not work.
It looks like the shell you are using may not be set as the default shell that Codux uses. It could explain why Codux is unable to find Node.
We are currently working on a solution to this issue, we invite you to open a ticket in which you can provide more information and we will be happy to reach out to you with any updates.
Thank you very much, I'll try it :)
So unfortunately I cannot sign up!
Just in case you wonder if people are not signing up :-)
I would consider a magic link authentication, or a normal oAuth where you get a login window in a real users browser, then get the oauth callback on a website of yours and then redirecting to a link which which can trigger to open the native application...
Good luck
hey @theluk ! Sorry for getting back to you so late...
This was a bug over at google's captcha mechanism. We managed to since fix this issue so you can give Codux a try now.
Apologies for that. Hope you're still willing to give Codux a shot :)
Really excited to see this finally go out to the real world, to meet real projects, belonging to real users.
Curious (and a bit nervous) what people will think, looking forward to some interesting discussions. :)
Would this be promoted as an web-first tool? I mean, UI Components run into Browsers, and should be executed in such a environment during development, like the demo in the website. Is it a thing that you will focus?
Absolutley. We're working on a compleley online version on Codux as we speak 😁
BTW, you can still render Codux Boards in a browser - just open the options menu in the editor and choose "Open in new window". Now you can see your code in the browser, debug with browser dev-tools and test different browsers
Really taking the whole lowcode to the next level. Nice work and congrats!
Hey @lirantal !
We like to say it isn't low code, it's YOUR code :)
This sounds super cool!
Can't wait to give it a try.
For other frameworks, have you looked at Mitosis?
Happy to explore if it's a good fit for you.
CC @samijaber
I can see a lot of advantages to supporting it. We'll add it to the list.
How would Codux integrate with XState? It would be awesome to be able to run through the states, see changes in the UI, and make edits and create new states on the fly.
@davidkpiano
Shouldn't be a problem, Boards are essentially react components for wrapping your components, giving them properties and context.
Setting up a component with Xstate, is as easy as mocking it for a test, or showing it in a demo.
Cool! I'd be very intrigued to try Codux if there were a convincing example that integrates seamlessly with XState..!
It says download node js even though I have already NodeJs installed in my device
I thought it was due to NVM so I put static path in my variable to NodeJS
but it still does not work can you please help me so I can try out this tool
I have m1 pro mac running mac os 13
and I gave path to NodeJS version 18
Amazing tool! Love it. It's like Figma but for React. 🤯
Thanks, join our discord, give us feedback 😊. We want all the feedbacks
Hey everyone, I wrote a blog post about Codux that could be helpful to this community. Check it out:
medium.com/@amirhbeigi/unleash-you...
Let me know what you think!
Sounds similar to storyboard? storybook.js.org/
Both in Codux and Storybook you isolate your components and render them, but this is where the similarities end :) . Now within Codux you can drill into every internal part of your component and visually edit it! you can change prop values, edit styles, and add/remove JSX elements all within the app. Every change you make results in actual source code change that you can later commit and push through git just as if you've done them in your IDE.
I see! That is cool
Cool stuff :)
Wow this is really cool! If you want a solution with a similar philosophy, but for the full-stack (low code, no visual ide yet), check out: wasp-lang.dev/
Btw, is this open-source? This would a perfect match for the frontend part in the future for wasp
Awesome tool, just wonder how did you do this
Building on top of a lot of dev tooling that we all use and love. ( Typescript, prettify, sass etc.) And a lot of hard work to be honest.
I'll be happy to give a deeper dive into how everything works. Which part interests you?
Wow! does it work with styled-components?
Hey, styled-components (as well as other CSS-in-JS solutions) is currently not fully supported. Codux will render the components properly, but will not be able to edit their styles. This is definitely in our plans as we expand our stack coverage.
Very exciting, Codux!
it remind me DreamWeaver... Bad memories 😂
I would love to try this out but I can't install this in Fedora. Any chance there can be a .rpm version compiled?
Hey @renzo_gaspary :)
We hear the Linux crowd and will try to package the upcoming releases for more versions. Please join our Discord to know about new releases.
discord.gg/6nhM6cpS
Download link no longer available?
hey @jonathanlal Download link is working for me. Can you try again?
Visual component editor？No code.
I don't quite understand the question.
Codux is a code-first product.
The code always comes first, The visual controls just allow better code editing experience in some cases
Could you make it support next js
could you add next js support
This is great! Are there any plans to support for other frameworks such as Solid, Vue, Svelte, etc?
Hi,
Very nice tool!
Getting the styles from the designer is something that is really helpful.
Any chance to use it for a library project of type "Lit Element"?
It is finally here, great work guys!!
How long do you think, before it has support for Svelte?