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Discussion on: What happened to Graphical GUI Builders? - Help me understand - (They are still here, I guess)

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Jen • Edited

when it comes to sites like squarespace and weebly still have a drag + drop configurator don't they? In any case, what you can do with them is pretty limited or won't work as expected if you try to do more complicated things (otherwise FE web developers wouldn't exist).

Xcode's UI editor is extremely good (which can be used for all apple devices, watchOS, macOS etc not just iOS). Android studio is still pretty thin in comparison, I would say you have to do more code with android. Although, you don't actually have to use them at all -- the frameworks will work fine without, it's just down to the developers preference.

I assume the reason why developers don't use GUI editors for web apps is because elements are no where near as complex as iOS/Android elements which for the most part, need to look/feel/behave the same across all apps on their respective OS.

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Rohan Sawant

Hmm... I understand what you mean is the Web Apps are simple enough that they can be worked on without a GUI Editor. I see.

I also think, that in this every changing web-landscape, it might be challenging to keep a GUI Editor up to date, with all the different frameworks. This will prove to be just one more piece of code that will need to be written.

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