Building React Frontends visually | Yang Zhang | Conf42 JavaScript 2020

Yang Zhang
Co-Founder of Plasmic

Plasmic is a novel visual builder for React and the web generally. It enables super-fast creation of maintainable, production-ready presentational components that can be imported into arbitrary codebases.

Design tools are fast and amazing tools for thought, but for a host of reasons are limited to creating drawings rather than production assets. Developers must instead re-create surfaces from scratch, by hand, using code (often heavily using tools like the Devtools CSS inspector, the closest thing developers have to a design tool). This inevitably leads to discrepancies and back-and-forth with the design team, and ultimately two sources of truth that are never truly in sync.

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🥈 Silver Sponsors:
Element 84
Google
KMMX
Plasmic
Theodo
Trivadis

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0:00 Intro
0:17 Talk

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