🥊Introduction:
The environment of front-end development is changing dramatically, thanks to technological developments, artificial intel...
Some comments have been hidden by the post's author - find out more
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
Low-code is a hype that's already blowing over imho. It won't go away, but it won't get larger either. Unless you mean tools that help generate code for full-code applications, I expect those to get more traction especially as they get better with the help of AI.
Exactly.
Figma's own website illustrates the problem with low/no-code platforms.
You might be able to "create visually appealing and useful websites and applications." But most people do not have the design skills to do that. Anyone who has taken the time to learn basic coding skills should have at least and appreciation of what makes a website usable.
On Figma's site, it's impossible to find content with all the distracting comment bubbles popping in and out, I'm betting it would fail WCAG because of it. (Do you really want your website to possibly trigger an epileptic seizure?).
This is a great example of low- or no-code problems. But I believe it will be much better in the future as AI improves.
I'm not sure how. Good design is hard and there are far more examples of bad design out there. You probably aren't old enough to remember Geo-cities and MySpace, but trust me - the more non-professionals there are building websites, the worse it will get. If AI tools work by making inferences from large samples data, and there are more bad examples than good...
Low-code/no-code tools definitely have a place in terms of fast site iteration for small to medium-size business. Most clients I've encountered want a site that looks good and can be built very quickly for a fraction of the cost.
Will it replace traditional web devs? Not at all, but I do think it has a place in the industry.
Perfectly said. It can't replace traditional web devs........ YET.
There's also Frontend AI where you can build components online from prompts or images, and export the code as React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, HTML, Tailwind or CSS. It's free with no login required
That's a nice tool that's not replacing devs, but helping them (us)!
Developers can try out Dualite as a design to code tool for reducing their redundant UI development work: bit.ly/DUALITE
This was useful. Thanks.
Low-code is a hype that's already blowing over imho. It won't go away, but it won't get larger either. Unless you mean tools that help generate code for full-code applications, I expect those to get more traction especially as they get better with the help of AI.
Promotion for figma, not useful
polipo.io/blog/will-ai-take-over-f...
The real point is not whether AI is going to take over but mostly: which parts of our work are going to be automated and why.