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Gabriel Grinberg
02/19/2023, 9:40 PMHello everyone! 👋 I am thrilled to share the progress made with Flyde with this community of like-minded individuals.
Flyde is an open-source, flow-based, and visual programming toolkit that prioritizes exceptional UX/DX and seamless integration with existing code. The toolkit features a VSCode extension, visual debugging, full TypeScript support, a rich standard library, and is designed to work in tandem with existing codebases. In essence, Flyde is similar to NodeRED, but geared towards web development.
This is the first time I am sharing Flyde with a broader community, and I believe feedback from such a talented, inquisitive, and passionate group of people would be invaluable to the project.
Check out the interactive playground here - https://www.flyde.dev/playground/!
I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback! Additionally, a star on GitHub would be greatly appreciated! 😊
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Jarno Montonen
02/20/2023, 7:35 AMLooks nice, but it took me forever to figure out how to connect and disconnect things. I think the interaction could use some more visual cues. Also, noticed that the counter is not very responsive, but only increments by say 2 if I click plus 5 times quickly. Is this only an issue if you have the canvas open? How's the performance generally?
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Gabriel Grinberg
02/20/2023, 7:55 AMThanks @Jarno Montonen!
Connecting things is indeed unintuitive right now. Plan is to allow dragging inputs and outputs to create new connections.
Regarding the counter - works pretty smooth here (even on mobile). Perhaps you had the “debut delay” slider to the max?
It isn’t optimized for best performance yet, but as most use-cases I found it useful for involved many async calls, the runtime perf. toll was negligible.
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Jarno Montonen
02/20/2023, 8:51 AMWell, now that I tried the counter again it seems to work fine. 👍 I don't think it was the debug delay though.
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Gabriel Grinberg
02/20/2023, 9:23 AMThanks for trying again! will keep an eye for that issue 👀
had this feature on my todo list for a long time. Thanks for the push @Jarno Montonen! it now supports "drag to connect". Live on the playground!
Removing connections is still not ideal; context menu / selecting input or output / dragging to an existing connection
There's a hotkey -
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Jarno Montonen
02/20/2023, 1:17 PMNice, much better! 🙂
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Ibro
02/20/2023, 3:11 PMIt seems like an interesting system. I tried rebuilding the HTTP Request example in the playground but it kept crashing. With shortcut discoverability, maybe you could have a help modal with the most common ones?
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Gabriel Grinberg
02/20/2023, 3:28 PM@Ibro thanks for trying! Will see what went wrong there
Regarding the hotkeys suggestions - definitely, will prioritize this
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Garth Goldwater
02/26/2023, 2:30 AMyeah something like holding down
shift + /