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I downloaded it, looks slick. Can I use standard frameworks like Bootstrap with this? Also, any docs?

If you're using a design tool to build your website... why would you need bootstrap? If you use a tool, the implementation details shouldn't matter much to you, just the process and final product.

Wish that was the case in general, but it isn't. The implementation details matter, because:

- There may be other tools better at specific aspects of the product, which you may want to include in the process;

- Special case of the above, the design tool may not carry you 100% of the way, and you don't want the tool to become an anchor at that point;

- There may be other people working on the product, using different tools;

- There is lots of ready-made stuff that can be plugged in to your product to enhance or prettify or optimize it - provided it's compatible with common standards at the implementation level.

This is true. There are standard use cases like landing/marketing sites, blogs etc that can be done fully visually, and there are custom once where coding is not avoidable.

We have designed it to work for both by providing API and CLI to integrate with the custom app and git-based workflow.

This part is still work in progress though.

I am just fine with the look and feel of bootstrap. Visual tools are great for prototyping and for dealing with fiddly bits like layouts.

Why would I want to be constrained to plain HTML when there are pre-made toolkits out there that do it for me? I don't want to figure out how to do rounded corners in CSS, but I would like to have a GUI that shows me how it looks on a page.

It sounds like you'd be better off with a Bootstrap-based visual site builder. I can recommend Bootstrap Studio. The visual nature of it helped me work with flexbox much better than online tutorials did. It exports nicely structured HTML that can be edited and modified outside of BSS easily.

It's a paid tool, but there's no vendor lock-in. Buy once and it's yours forever.

... you know rounded corners are built in to CSS right? There's no arcane knowledge there. Bit of an odd example

Reminds me of the old "sliding doors" technique. You young guns have no idea how good you have it with your fandangled "border-radius". We had to work hard for our rounded corners back in the day.

https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/

Integrations with various frameworks is on the roadmap. In fact we have already started integrating with the first one - Radix UI.

Once we are happy with the API for integration, we will document it for developers community so everyone can integrate it with different frameworks.

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