Solis - A live design output that integrates with code editor

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.

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This looks almost too good to be true 😅 I'll be sure to check it out, congrats on the launch 👏🚀
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...
Is it not gonna be available for Windows?
sorry no plans right now.
people complain about the size and memory usage of Electron apps, but this is the perfect use case for it.
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.
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 ;)
You should mimic Terminal icon in size and bezel. Now it's ALMOST similar, but not quite. 😅
Yeah Im working on a bunch of things with local host right now. Thanks for all the feedback, really helpful!
We just release Solis V1.0.1 you can see the change log here: • Custom domain support - Added • Hide Toolbar - Added • Allow smaller app window - Added • Set canvas Background colour - Added
So awesome! Now I can develop like a ninja. 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.
Excellent work . 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 😉
Thanks buddy! I am literally working on this right now, Im hoping to have the feature expanded within the next few days.
that is great news. Thanks for the update. Looking forward to using Solis as part of my workflow 😃
Hey Craig, did you try the latest version of Solis v1.0.1? It might work a little better for you now.
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.
cool idea!
Hi , how does Solis handle jsx?
afraid not.
Hey we just added better support for React projects in Solis v1.0.2. Give it another try :)
Looks like this won't work with React? Or any JS that needs to run webpack?
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
Hey we just added better support for React projects in Solis v1.0.2. Give it another try.
It works just add the server.
Fantastic work all-round on this Norm, and the video is on point as always!
thanks :)
This is awesome
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