How’s it going, I'm a Adam, a Full-Stack Engineer, actively searching for work. I'm all about JavaScript. And Frontend but don't let that fool you - I've also got some serious Backend skills.
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10 plus years* active enterprise development experience and a Fine art degree 🎨
I think most developers enjoy using IDE's text editors, source control and having the CSS in the same project in the same place for convenience.
The bigger issue to keep in mind would be security. As the cloud is just somebody else's computer it would potentially open up an attack vector.
The other things to consider, speed, remote code is slower, your CSS would need to be GET and downloaded cached, painted and so on. We aren't all blessed with fast internet, but okay edge caching helps and cdns do this.
A reasonable and more viable solution, have CSS on your local machine but have CSS variables hooked up to this cloud dashboard, get those values in JavaScript via fetch and then set those CSS variables via JavaScript also.
How’s it going, I'm a Adam, a Full-Stack Engineer, actively searching for work. I'm all about JavaScript. And Frontend but don't let that fool you - I've also got some serious Backend skills.
Location
City of Bath, UK 🇬🇧
Education
10 plus years* active enterprise development experience and a Fine art degree 🎨
Because styling involves knowledge in more than just css it takes knowledge in UX and accessibility and also atleast in my experience, that most designers that know CSS are also developers as well, it's far more likely that this target audience doesn't exist yet, but by all means make it happen. Just because something isn't done that way doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. Maybe such a tool could give warnings around accessibility and poor UX in design.
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I think most developers enjoy using IDE's text editors, source control and having the CSS in the same project in the same place for convenience.
The bigger issue to keep in mind would be security. As the cloud is just somebody else's computer it would potentially open up an attack vector.
The other things to consider, speed, remote code is slower, your CSS would need to be GET and downloaded cached, painted and so on. We aren't all blessed with fast internet, but okay edge caching helps and cdns do this.
A reasonable and more viable solution, have CSS on your local machine but have CSS variables hooked up to this cloud dashboard, get those values in JavaScript via fetch and then set those CSS variables via JavaScript also.
Imagine if a designer could modify your webapp etc.. without pushing out code ^
Because styling involves knowledge in more than just css it takes knowledge in UX and accessibility and also atleast in my experience, that most designers that know CSS are also developers as well, it's far more likely that this target audience doesn't exist yet, but by all means make it happen. Just because something isn't done that way doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. Maybe such a tool could give warnings around accessibility and poor UX in design.
I'm talking about modifying the website by the designer "VISUALLY", he doesn't need to know CSS.