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The runtime engine for hosting Anvil web apps
https://anvil.works/open-source
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GUI Builder For Anvil which is offline / opensource #43

Closed richierh closed 2 years ago

richierh commented 2 years ago

Hi.. I would like to know if there is anvil gui /web builder for offline editing?

IRM3DS commented 2 years ago

We haven't found one, so what we do is use Anvil.works to build the structure of what we are looking to publish and then get the solution layout validated by the users in Anvil.works. Once we are pretty confident that the layout (not functionality) is what we want to publish, we export it and run on our own servers to finish the development. If there are minor tweaks, button labelling, position, event binding, visibility, etc... we just manage that through the .yaml manually on our exported version.

meredydd commented 2 years ago

I'm going to chime in to point out that it's perfectly possible to push changes back into the anvil.works online editor, so you can absolutely do GUI design in the editor (even using the free plan) and do the rest of your dev+hosting offline.

Having said which, the answer to @richierh's question is that anvil.works is the officially supported GUI builder for this framework, so I'm going to close this issue as it's off topic for this repo.