Rafael Crespo

deco.cx 2.0 - Build web apps 10x faster with Deno, JSX, TS & Tailwind

Web development should be easy and fun, which is why we created an integrated frontend platform that combines the realtime collaboration of Figma with the developer experience of VSCode, the extensibility of WordPress, and the power of AI, all in one tool.

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Guilherme Rodrigues
Hi from Brazil 🇧🇷! Gui here, co-founder of deco.cx. We started deco in late '22 because: - We were unhappy with the complexity of frontend development and how this was turning down junior developers; - We saw how developers and content creators often struggle to collaborate because the Headless CMS becomes a silo, requiring a lot of time to integrate and evolve; - Finally, we've witnessed client-side-first SPAs fail terribly for high-volume, content-driven websites like ecommerce storefronts. We wanted a simpler way for web developers to build and collaborate with their marketing peers, using modern web technologies, and without having to configure so much stuff. "No-code" is not enough, and often removes power from developers. We wanted to have one environment from code to content. We wanted to build the other side of code! That's why we created deco.cx: for developers and marketing teams to build together, faster than ever. Developers write components and functions using Deno, JSX, TypeScript, and Tailwind. We automatically generate a beautiful, visual admin UI from the TypeScript code! Forget the costly and complex setup of a Headless CMS, or the inflexible structure of a no-code prison. deco.cx offers a seamless solution, making webdev straightforward for teams of all sizes: ➡️ We have a web-based Code Editor with real-time visual content previews ➡️ Automatic conversion from TypeScript code to visual forms ➡️ Realtime collaboration with your team members on all sites ➡️ Decopilot, a GPT-powered AI assistant for code and content creation ➡️ A strong focus on SEO and customizable themes (using Tailwind and DaisyUI) ➡️ Git-backed, and soon compatible with any TypeScript repo ➡️ Enterprise-grade features, including full control over release cycles, role-based permissions, real-time web analytics with Plausible, and error monitoring with HyperDX. Choose self-hosting or our comprehensive edge infrastructure at competitive prices, including CDN, hosting, analytics, and more for lower TCO in high-volume setups, simplifying your operations. Join us in shaping a simpler open-source frontend future. With 3,000 developers in our Discord, we're building a community-driven platform. Contribute and share your insights at https://deco.cx/discord. Your feedback is welcome; We're here to chat all day. Let's make frontend development enjoyable again, together! Watch our manifesto:
Rubia Dias
Congrats!!
Yakadoo
@guifromrio You guys are great!
Jake Tital
@guifromrio Crushing the leaderboard today. How long have you been preparing for this launch? 🧐
Justin Tomlinson
@guifromrio Hello! I love your product. I think it’s so important to make development accessible for all, also I really love the A/B testing. I can’t wait to try it out.
Guilherme Rodrigues
@jaketital Thanks! We've been preparing this launch for at least two months, and we actually postponed it from last week because both the launch video and the product weren't quite there yet. Well, I think the product still isn't 😂 but we hope to evolve faster now by growing our open-source community! I'm specially excited for the upcoming ability to code extensions for our admin UI!
Ted Schaefer
It's today? It's today! deco.cx team, congrats on your launch! I'm looking forward to trying it out. Top tier meme selection for the video too 🤌🤯🔥
Rafael Crespo
@sixbangs thank you for your support! Yes haha we had so much fun making the video haha
Leandro Borges
@sixbangs IT-IS-TODAY! Thank you so much for the support. I'd love to hear your thoughts after trying it out. Wish you the best on your launch!
Ted Schaefer
@lnjaine Thanks!!
Ted Schaefer
@rafaelgcrespo I made a Captain Planet joke recently and nobody got it... 🤦‍♂️😂
Rafael Crespo
@sixbangs poor kids these days lol
Sandra Djajic
Fun and easy, I love that! What else should it be in fact? The product features sound great, Congratulations on the launch! 🚀
Guilherme Rodrigues
@sandradjajic thanks! We remember the good old days when editing and HTML was simpler. We want to keep all of the good things that evolved in the meantime, but have the same feeling of simplicity when coding. We're not there yet, there's a lot to improve, but we're confident that with the global open source community, we can make our vision a reality :)
João Paulo Pesce
We've been using it for around 2 weeks now, and we're loving the experience so far. It's like having a top-tier engineering team architecting your front-end without having to go through all the process of hiring and R&D. The amount of thought that has been put into making things performant and efficient is impressive. And best of all, it's not overly abstracted – at the end of the day, it's still web development as we all know and love. The barrier to adoption is incredibly low! 🤌
Leandro Borges
@joaooficina Thank you for the amazing feedback! We are thrilled to have you as a customer and member an active member of our Discord community. Hal, open the pod!
Guilherme Rodrigues
@joaooficina thanks João!!! It's a privilege to have sophisticated customers such as yourself, it makes us grow and evolve the product faster!
Viswanatha Reddy
Congratulations on the launch 🚀 Product looks interesting. Does it have Figma & WordPress plugins?
Luciano Júnior
@viswanatha Thank you very much! Not yet, but our open-source Deco Hub allows anyone to submit their plugins and apps for deco https://github.com/deco-cx/apps Our next milestone is to make this work seamless
Leandro Borges
@viswanatha Thank so much for the comment! Figma integration is a great idea, and regarding to WordPress we aim to be a modern alternative to it, replacing completely.
Micha Cassola
Wow, this new kind of CMS is really great! Will there be tutorials/courses on how to go about learning everything necessary to be able to do it? Also, when will self-hosting be ready? Early 2024 is already over. 😄
Rafael Crespo
@michacassola self-hosting in the next weeks :) We have been updating our docs, and we are launching our bootcamp to accelerate the learning curve https://deco.camp - but it is in brazilian portuguese rn I saw that you added me on Linkedin , I'll keep you updated :)
Micha Cassola
@rafaelgcrespo Yeah, thanks for connecting on LinkedIn! English would of course find a greater international audience.
Guilherme Rodrigues
@rafaelgcrespo @michacassola We're working on the English version of deco.camp, more on this soon :)
Vera Rose
Congrats on the launch! Love your intro video and the style you chose. Are you only working on websites right now? Or are you planning to do more?
Rafael Crespo
@vera_mur we have been focused on headless ecommerce storefronts at first, now we are moving more towards landing pages, blogs and institutional sites, - but we would love to see more and more fullstack web apps created with deco
Anthony Latona
Woah, this is huge. Could there be any more features!? Outstanding launch video with all the memes too! If this was my preferred tech stack, I'd surely use it. Looks extremely helpful and capable. Well done! Congrats on the launch!
Leandro Borges
@anthony_latona Thank you for the support! It got me curious: what's your favorite tech stack? :)
Anthony Latona
@lnjaine Having been a PHP guy forever, I'm using Laravel for anything custom. It just makes sense to me :)
Guilherme Rodrigues
@lnjaine @anthony_latona PHP is a spiritual inspiration for our product. We're trying to be as pragmatic as Wordpress and Laravel. All in one, just works, easy to get started. But for TypeScript and JSX :)
Dan Vitoriano
I am a front-end developer, and started my career selling websites developed with Wordpress but I didn't like PHP that much. After that, I learned programming languages like JavaScript, and started to use frameworks like Angular, Vue, NextJS and libraries like React. Recently I migrated my main website to the Squarespace platform, because lowcode was easier than maintaining code everyday. But I faced some problems with that: high prices monthly or annually from the seller, and not so many opportunities to insert custom code with the languages I've learned and love, and needless to say tha we don't find help of a community of developers on the internet. That's why deco.cx became my favorite front-end as a service, because I can use TypeScript and TailwindCSS, two tech stacks I love the most and I was already so familiar with them. And the cost is incredibly cheaper compared to other players like Squarespace, and I can do a lot of more custom and complex things with it than with Squarespace or Wordpress. I am so excited with deco.cx 2.0, because it's even faster, more integrated with the major ecommerce platforms, and the admin panel was improved to be easier and self-explained. The community in Discord is really helpful, and it's a thing that we don't find in other platforms. Long life for all developers using deco.cx 2.0 - we all deserve a platform like this!
Luciano Júnior
@dan_vitoriano wow, thank you very much! This makes us work harder towards the goal of having a better web
Guilherme Rodrigues
@dan_vitoriano the team got emotional by reading this!! Thanks for the kind words and let's build the simple platform we deserve!
Leandro Borges
@dan_vitoriano Hi Dan, thank you so much for this testimonial! It's great to hear that you found on deco.cx a great solution to maintain your website using a stack that you love.
Dan Vitoriano
@guifromrio you deserve the best! I'm really excited with the platform, super helpful!
Dan Vitoriano
@lnjaine thank you leandro! the stack of my dreams! lol
Sergei Vorniches
OK, this product trailer is an instant upvote. Besides that, the idea is great, takes me back to the good ol'days of building with Visual Basic hehe. The amount of work is tremendous, really impressive. Unfortunatelly, I wasn’t able to play around with any of the prebuilt templates, but hey, it’s launch day, so I’m guessing you guys are dealing with some heavy traffic right now! One thing I noticed though, is that the number of prebuilt templates seems a bit on the limited side, and I'm assuming it's a list that's curated by the development team. Given the building nature of the product, I think it’d be really cool to have a space where users can share all sorts of templates they’ve created with deco. Imagine having easy access to dozens, even hundreds of community-built templates right from the builder – that would be awesome.
Rafael Crespo
@vorniches loved your comment. Thank you for trying the product out! What happened when you tried to use the templates? It should be working! And yes, having hundreds of templates is our next priority! We will launch a new version of our "marketplace store", called deco hub https://deco.cx/en/hub (sadlky this page is broken rn, but we are fixing it)
Guilherme Rodrigues
@vorniches thanks for the heads up, engineers are dealing with this problem right now! Of course some of the scaling measures we took late yesterday to prevent a disaster today, actually backfired and created a new bug in the frontend 😅 wouldn't be a proper launch without a critical bug, would it?? hehe! but we're fixing it! and thanks for the lovely comment :)
Sergei Vorniches
@rafaelgcrespo great move with the market place, good luck with that! >What happened when you tried to use the templates It trying to load for a while, but then show the message with sad capibara and 'Oops, something went wrong' :) Nothing essential in the console errors tho. Firefox 124.0.2 (64-bit) Monterey 12.6 (21G115) MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
Leandro Borges
@rafaelgcrespo @vorniches We could replicate this issue on Firefox! We are working on the fix. Meanwhile, you should be able to use it on Chrome without any issues. Thanks for reporting it!!
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