Have we already exhausted the possibilities of how we interact with our favorite code editor? Have we got so used to how we code to achieve a certain goal we can no longer see any way to involve it?
Since I started to work at CodeSandbox, I've seen myself facing those issues more often. Besides that, I began to wonder how beginners are struggling to rule the code editor and learn their favorite framework simultaneously.
Therefore, I challenged myself to come up with a code editor/IDE for beginner developers focused on ReactJS and what this concept might look like.
The anatomy of a component
The first concept came to me some time ago, when I was teaching a friend of mine more about React and how a component works. I remember I said the component itself has a proper "anatomy". Later, I realized it makes a lot of sense because we know where things are supposed to be in a component.
In other words:
So basically, we can predict what actions the user might take and teach them the best practices. So, this idea evolved to a new concept which are menus with context-sensitive intentions linked to those sectors.
The whole point of this concept is that we can understand the code to provide a way to make a new code editor with whatever framework or even language we want. I just used React to illustrate the idea.
Top comments (2)
Great idea Danilo! I think we can also have some kind of linter for this tool, to validate pattern and structures, it would be an interesting feature
Amazing idea! I hope you are able to finish it. Good luck!