A Live Design Output that integrates seamlessly with code editor to deliver real time, multi viewport previewing of HTML, CSS, SASS and LESS as you write it.
@kvschethan@normsheeran people complain about the size and memory usage of Electron apps, but this is the perfect use case for it.
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Went to the site- was loving it - scrolling through the content, ready to hit the Free trial button - and then suddenly saw "Made for the Mac" :( broke my heart...
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Love the idea, but it didn't work that well for me. A few things:
- Tried to load a wordpress site on localhost/ but just gave me beach ball of death and crashed each time
- Needs support for custom-domains.dev
- Would be great if I could show/hide the toolbar on top. I have a small screen, and would love to use as much space for the website as possible. Also it's less distracting and you probably won't use the tools all the time when developing, mostly when the project first is setup.
Will make sure to check out future updates.
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Also, when doing split screen (between Terminal and Solis), I can't make the Solis window less that 50% of the screen. I have a 13" MacBook, so would be great to have it take up even less space. :) Also would be cool if I could change the background color, so that it could match my text editor background ;) https://imgur.com/a/KK3Lr
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You should mimic Terminal icon in size and bezel. Now it's ALMOST similar, but not quite. 😅 https://imgur.com/a/ELHZoGZ
@eivindml We just release Solis V1.0.1 you can see the change log here: https://solisapp.com/release-not...
• Custom domain support - Added
• Hide Toolbar - Added
• Allow smaller app window - Added
• Set canvas Background colour - Added
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@normsheeran So awesome! Now I can develop like a ninja. https://imgur.com/lhjcykG
Two things:
• When opening my local dev url, I get "Solis does not support opening live URL's. Would you like to open this URL in your browser?" Not shure what that means. Is it related to BrowserSync? If so, that is one feature which would be great to support.
• When opening my project, I get a spinning beach ball. I thought it completely crashed, so I've been force quitting it. But after I waited for a long time, everything loaded (almost 1 minute). This was with 3 canvases. Loaded faster when I just had one. Looks maybe like it's loading everything on the main thread or something, so that all other interactions are disabled while the screens are loading.
Hey folks, I'm Norm the creator of Solis, happy to answer any question you may have.
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Excellent work @normsheeran. Will be even more awesome when we can use it for any of our locally hosted sites (I know you are working on this already). Please make sure you add compatibility with Local by Flywheel 😉
@craigcpaterson Hey Craig, did you try the latest version of Solis v1.0.1? It might work a little better for you now.
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@normsheeran I have just tried connecting to a locally installed installation of WordPress and it worked 👍🏻. Would be nice to see support for the WordPress file structure when connecting to a WP site (if that is even possible). Currently Solis lists "all" files and there can be many 'functions.php' files making it harder to select the correct file.
@norm@fa_hinse Hey we just added better support for React projects in Solis v1.0.2. Give it another try :)
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Looks like this won't work with React? Or any JS that needs to run webpack?
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@corbanb Nope :(. I happened to have a Rekit project running so I tested that and it worked, but on save only. So in that case, it just works as a really pretty looking way to visualize multiple viewports at once. A create-react-app didn't work at all. Norm mentions above that it doesn't support JSX, which could mean that it would either need to explicitly add support for it, or maybe that's just not part of how it works and therefore doesn't need to deal with it.
Not really any information on how this works behind the scenes, so it's hard to tell where the line is
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