Bangle.io – A fully local serverless Notion alternative
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Some first thoughts...
- Boy, this checkout is taking awhile...
- Coming Soon: Roadmap. Hah! Sounds like me...
- Is the app slower in dev mode? It took about 20+ seconds to load the "Getting Started" page. Edit: Ah, it's vite installing dependencies and reloading the page... that's not a good first impression. It reloaded the page at least 5-6 times on first load.
- By the way, ctrl-shift-p opens up an incognito window in Firefox, so that hotkey prefix is probably not so good.
- The "Workspace Home" shows a notice saying I have no notes, and a CTA to create my first note, but clicking it says I need to select a workspace, but I don't know how to create a workspace.
- Seriously, you remapped ctrl-r? I don't think that is a good idea.
- How come the "bangle-help" workspace doesn't show up in "Workspace Home"?
- Oof, a page load transferred 13.76MB of data... for a bangle instance with no data. I don't think this is excusable, because a production instance of NodeBB (to use a biased example, of course) clocks in at only 2.17MB. Like bangle, NodeBB also focuses on speed.
Some rough edges here, but all-in-all a really nice start! Looking forward to seeing this mature :) When I first started NodeBB and someone posted it on HN, we got a lot of drive-by critiques like what I just posted. It stings, sure, but it kicked our ass in gear to better our platform. Hope this helps.
> - This checkout is taking awhile
This is because the project is using the zero-install yarn feature which checks in node_modules to the git repository.
> Is the app slower in dev mode? It took about 20+ seconds to load the "Getting Started" page. Edit: Ah, it's vite installing dependencies and reloading the page... that's not a good first impression. It reloaded the page at least 5-6 times on first load.
This is a known problem that I have documented in the CONTRIBUTING.md [1], please note that this is due to an upstream dependency and any dev reloads are nearly instantaneous.
> - Seriously, you remapped ctrl-r? I don't think that is a good idea.
That's a good callout, I will be fixing it.
> - Oof, a page load transferred 13.76MB of data... for a bangle instance with no data. I don't think this is excusable, because a production instance of NodeBB (to use a biased example, of course) clocks in at only 2.17MB. Like bangle, NodeBB also focuses on speed.
This is for the development version (when you do `yarn start`), the production version that is at http://app.bangle.io (or `yarn build`) clocks in around 800kb.
Again, I really appreciate your feedback and will be working on improving it right away.
Thanks <3
[1] https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle-io/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING...
- Hint: I just did like the one person you described in your last paragraph.