Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code
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Learn how Pagedraw compiles UI mockups to React code, automating a tedious process for developers and designers
Action Steps
- Import mockups from Sketch or Figma into Pagedraw
- Annotate mockups with extra information, such as backend connections and screen resizing
- Compile mockups to React code using Pagedraw
- Interleave generated React components with handwritten ones
- Test and refine the generated React code
Who Needs to Know This
Full-stack developers and designers can benefit from Pagedraw, as it streamlines the process of converting mockups to React code, saving time and reducing manual errors
Key Insight
💡 Pagedraw automates the process of converting UI mockups to React code, saving developers time and reducing manual errors
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Key Takeaways
Learn how Pagedraw compiles UI mockups to React code, automating a tedious process for developers and designers
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Hi HN! We're Jared and Gabe (YC W18), the founders of Pagedraw ( https://pagedraw.io ). Pagedraw is a UI builder that turns mockups into React code. Pagedraw lets you annotate mockups with extra information (like how to connect to the backend, resize for different screens, etc.) to get full, presentational, React Components. They’re React Components just like any others, so they can be interleaved freely with handwritten ones. They don’t require any new dependencies and work well with any existing JSX build system. You can import the mockups from Sketch or Figma, or draw them from scratch in Pagedraw. Working as full stack devs, we constantly had to do this translation by hand. It was our least favorite part of our jobs, since the creative work had already been done by the mockup designer. It's so repetitive and mechanical that we decided to stop hand-coding divs and css and write a program to do it instead. There have been many attempts to automate this stuff in th
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