How I speed up React, Front-end development.

Often a client wants a website developed in React. But they also want user acceptance and fast delivery of the site. React Studio lets me complete the UX/UI layout, and deliver the code at the same time.

React Studio lets me generate reusable components, the code, and client previews for UX sign-off. All at the same time.

At the end of the day, the client just wants the React code, the code that creates the pages or app. React Studio generates all this with a visual editor that allows what-you-see-is-what-you-get design.

Speed is the benefit of a visual editor. Yet most React websites or apps are designed by hard-coding. Hard-coding is the slowest way to design any app or website. Tools like React Studio provide a platform, or an app, known as low-code tools.

These tools allow the UX/UI designer to complete the design and have the code developed at the same time.

Be it a React app, a React Native, or a website generated by React code, at the end of the day, they all start with the UX design and client acceptance. But why send the design off to a developer?

Humans must do the design, because AI for generating design is not an option yet. But humans are not as good at generating error-free code. However, computers are good at generating error-free code over and over again. Low-code tools like React Studio blend both. These tools allow humans to do what they are best at, and let the computer generate the code that works.

Development tools that generate React code, insures the developers of that tool will work out the bugs. Unless the tool produces error free code, no one will buy it. So the programmers of these development tools have a financial incentive to work out the bugs.

This leaves the designer to just produce the layout (UI), the iteration (UX), and get stakeholder feedback. And leaves the React code generation to the tool.

A lot of developers will balk at this approach.

Their argument will be that making a react app is best done by developers. Even though that means hand-coding the user interface, and ux components.

But this also means the ux team needs to hand-off to the developers, who have to translate the design into code. This costs time, and money.

Web developers, using things like Wordpress, don't suffer this delay. Wordpress in essentially a visual design tool with all the page builders, and its own block editor.

So why do teams developing react code insist on hand-coding when React Studio used drag-and-drop for the layout? Because coders think that generated code is less flexible. But this is untrue.

React Studio allows API integration. So much of the back-end, react code is also handled. With generated code, a developer can still load the react code into a code editor, text editor, or any other development environment.

Development with code, allows the flexibility of loading the project into any development tool. Starting with code generation, an approved user interface, and approved experience design, gives the application a head start.

As a developer turned designer, my clients benefit from faster development with low-code tools. And some companies are moving to low-code or no-code application development. So developers should read the signs on the wall.

The best thing a company can do is consider code generation tools like React Studio, Figma to Flutter plugins, Xojo, and other plugins that convert Sketch to flutter components.

This developer is convinced. Offload the React code generation to the computer.

Did you ever look up a coding example and realize that one of the crucial factors influencing how a programmer services a sub-component is less-than-ideal UI design? Code generation tools have component support that fixes this problem.

Javascript Code can become buildable by common-sense development. New features such as garbage collection, callbacks, data/terrapins, Windows UI etc. are things a good tool can write. The main takeaway question is why you want to write close-to everything your source code requires when the tool can generate this.

Web pages require humans to evaluate the UX design. Yet automation will speed up the code generation, and code consistent.

Simple. React Studio has automated a test-driven workflow, and it focuses on results with design in mind. Using live usability testing, you can design beyond wireframes, test case projects and advanced animations. You can also use test-driven-app development. So for my clients, I need JavaScript (React) code, API programming, and programming tools in mix. For my UX Design process, there are client requirements that must be followed, but eliminating the hand-coding, in favor of visual design to code entirely automates workflow.