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Comment by gliechtenstein | Hacker News Reader

https://jasonette.github.io/documentation/actions/

Please consider reading this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

I, too, went down the path of JSON -> Compiler -> Code, and I essentially just made a worse version of what I was looking to simplify.

Thanks for the article. I am sorry to hear what happened to your project, but I think, in my case because I didn't build this from scratch, but it was extracted out from an existing app, I was able to get this to a point where I'm very satisfied with the result.

My goal was to make something that will help myself build, iterate, extend my existing app much faster, and it really did, so that's when I realized it would be great if I can open this up so others can use it as well.

To be more specific, nowadays I can build, iterate, and extend apps significantly faster, as in what used to take couple of days I can now build in 30 minutes. Maybe it's just me but I'm sure if I can do it, anyone can do it.

yeah, predefined actions for often used features is good (if you assure that it would be possible to add some custom JS action if needed), but frankly I think this project could be better (I mean, really better, it would be killer app), if you would go further and made visual editor for that. Some sort of modern WYSIWYG. Nobody wants to edit manually plain JSON files... But if editor could let you to make apps without code and generate/modify these JSONs for you, it would be nice.

I think data-driven approach is huge win for that. It's all data after all.

What is the problem? Creating visual editor is hard. Idea is obvious, but implementation, ux etc. is hard (I see sometimes visual editors for apps and most of it are sh*t).

Thanks for the feedback! We discuss that issue here: https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS/issues/4

Please follow the project if you're interested in finding out where this goes :)

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