Announcing the new Jetstrap for Twitter Bootstrap Development

http://blog.jetstrap.com/2013/04/introducing-jetstrap-1-0/

by yesimahuman • 13 years ago

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m3ntat• 13 years ago

Very cool, great work!

helloimben• 13 years ago

Thank you!

dbla• 13 years ago

The code editor is really slick. Did you build it from scratch or is it a library?

yesimahuman10• 13 years ago

We used Ace for the editing, and then basically just listen for changes and update the document. There is more we could do there to really integrate it, but it's a nice start.

jamieb• 13 years ago

Ace?

eah13• 13 years ago

Big improvements. Nice progress.

hayksaakian• 13 years ago

Interesting that in the last 6mnths to 1 year for everything I see on HN pushing a yearly subscription model.

While it's certainly proven to make more $, I wonder what the repercussions really are.

yesimahuman10• 13 years ago

I think our pricing model will evolve over time. Right now it's a bit simpler to start this way, but we have a lot of ideas on how to make the model fit the use case better. We've also had some success with the subscription model for some other projects we've worked on, so there is some precedent there.

orangethirty• 13 years ago

Have you tested dropping or severely limiting the free plan?

contrahax• 13 years ago

When I first saw this a while back it wasn't really any good but now it feels pretty slick. Keep up the good work!

yesimahuman10• 13 years ago

That gave me a chuckle :) You know what they say: if you aren't embarrassed by your first release you waited too long.

alexdevkar• 13 years ago

Really like the simplicity. If I pay for a year, what changes can I expect in that time?

mleaconsulting• 13 years ago

Good stuff. This will make prototyping stuff for client simple as hell. I am a lazy lazy man

aram2• 13 years ago

Good idea and looking great!

I just signed up and here are a few observations:

- the editor is stuck every few minutes on latest Chrome

- helper buttons (clone/delete) disappear after a few moves

- content elements are disappearing when typing (heading titles on marketing layout) - not sure if that triggered some shortcut

- the "undo" button is missing there badly

yesimahuman10• 13 years ago

Ah, sorry about that. I will take a look and see where the issue is. Thanks!

aram2• 13 years ago

You're welcome!

danvoell• 13 years ago

How much for just the T-shirt? Nice work guys, keep up the great work!

arikrak• 13 years ago

Nice. Between Jetstrap, Divshot, and Easel, there's no shortage of WYSIWYG Bootstrap apps. The question is which one will offer the best options for creating code for an actual dynamic website. I.e. it would be great to use something to do all the design of Rails site, but it seems like it would involve a lot of copying and pasting.

yesimahuman10• 13 years ago

All great tools. I think the challenge is fitting into a developer's work flow at that level of intimacy to their app. To that end, we will probably end up targeting a different type of user, but those details are still evolving.

JustARandomGuy• 13 years ago

Great work! One feature request: Allow the user to deploy straight to a GitHub repository or perhaps FTP. I realize we can just export the HTML/CSS/JS and upload ourselves, but this would be much faster and simpler. Would be fine if this feature was limited to paying customers.

beatpanda5• 13 years ago

Super stoked to inherit a bunch of half-finished front end projects started in this app, where step one is to remove all of the hard-coded list seperators, "<i>" tags, and "span6" classes

yesimahuman10• 13 years ago

Do you have more info on what is wrong with the markup? From the comment all I can make out is those are normal bootstrap constructs (span6 being a grid span). I'd like to fix the issues you are having (though this new version has even cleaner exported markup).

beatpanda5• 13 years ago

What's wrong with the markup is that it conforms to the Bootstrap documentation, and the way the Bootstrap docs recommend writing HTML is absolute garbage.

<i class="dipshit-icon"> is the spacer.gif of my generation.

zenstealth• 13 years ago

This looks like a nice Bootstrap editor. I tried it, and it worked great but for some strange reason the backspace key won't work at all.

yesimahuman10• 13 years ago

Gah! Just pushed a fix. Moved too quickly and broke that.

akst• 13 years ago

I'm using firefox on os x, and I'm getting some weird anti-aliasing on some of the sites text, for example my user name on the header bar + the text in the lower right corner on the dashboard page.

Other than that, looks great.

mkoble11• 13 years ago

Jetstrap reminds me of Divshot - another great interface builder: http://www.divshot.com

Great job! Glad to see some startups out there trying to make it easier to create :)

dannyp32• 13 years ago

Please vertically center the text on those buttons!

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