These improvements are part of our ongoing research to bring a customized and friendly building experience to each team member, regardless of technical experience. The new version creates a more intuitive experience for designers and non-technical users while still allowing developers to work directly with CSS properties. You needed a solid technical understanding of CSS to how it works. In the initial version, the user needed to know what display flex, block, inline, or none should do with all the implications. The Visual Inspector is now more than just CSS properties put in a GUI: it is human-friendly. Automatic binding for component props A much friendlier visual inspector In the next release, we’ll bring style overrides and variants for your components. From now on, properties are automatically detected and created for texts, links, and images. Working with components and component properties becomes more straightforward. Place items inside a container Change position & group items Improved components properties support The platform’s drag and drop functionality is so much more powerful, straightforward, and easy to use.Īre you a designer trying to place items in the right spot? We’ve got you covered!Īre you a developer who wants to move quickly without having to think about which flex property you should set? Is it justify-content or align-items? Just place the items where you want them.
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Drag and drop functionality powers up!ĭrop items where you want, update their position, automatically group multiple items, or place them freely. We’ll cover this decision, the challenges, and the implications more in-depth in a separate blog post. It was a strategic decision which prioritized investing in long-term gain. Instead of simply updating the existing engine, we decided to go all-in and rewrite the entire platform.
It also enables our engineering team to ship new features faster than ever before!īehind this engine, there’s a year of under-the-hood work. The new engine enables collaboration sessions between dozens of users. In this blog post, we’ll briefly describe some of the features we’ve added and highlight others on our roadmap. Moreover, it provides a significant step towards building fully-fledged front-end applications. This new version comes with considerable improvements, including a brand new collaboration engine which enables teams to build user interfaces with unprecedented efficiency. After months of iterations and feedback from our users, we’re incredibly excited to launch our latest platform version!