I’m loving Beaver Builder. It’s obvious a lot of thought and care went into creating this product.
I’m in the process of trying to greatly streamline and automate some of my workflow and am trying to find ways to use all of my tools across multiple platforms.
As well as Wordpress/PHP, I tend to do a fair bit of Ruby on Rails programming (using Booststrap). I’d love to be able to use BB to rapid-design/prototype my pages for a Rails app and then Export the BB code to HTML and load the BB CSS+JS files into my Rails app.
Hi Jeff,
Great to see another Rails developer here
I guess you could view the source code - but it would need a fair bit of editing I imagine.
Another thing that comes to mind (if you are Mac? - would have to be using Rails right ) have you checked out… http://blocsapp.com/
I’m sure I can pull the code from a WP site’s dbs (I assume BB stores the results in meta fields - haven’t had a chance to look yet), but would love either a ‘(pre)view HTML’ function or ‘save as HTML’ in BB to make the tool easier to use in this capacity.
True re: the editing - I’ve looked at the BB-generated markup and there’s a fair amount of nesting, that’s needed for BB, but wouldn’t be needed if I was porting the results to a Rails page/partial.
I am on a Mac (OSX 10.11) and also spend a fair amount of time in VBox running Ubuntu 14.04 using i3wm for a tiling window manager - can’t beat the speed of development with a good tiling wm. Closest match I’ve recently found in OSX is Amethyst (which is proving to be pretty good and may prompt a more wholesale shift to developing solely in OSX).
Thanks for the link, looks promising! Have you used it much? Is the HTML/Bootstrap code tight?
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the layoutit link, I think I have come across that before.
With Blocs - to be honest it is just something I am keeping an eye on (I do own it!). I do have a Rails app about to go live and I hope to switch it to a custom design using Blocs.
I get the impression that the guy behind it Norm, is very capable - watch a couple of his video’s and get a feel for it. https://vimeo.com/channels/934129
Cheers, Dave
Hey guys! This is a really fun idea. We’ve discussed it a bit, too. Realistically, though, it’s probably not something that we’re going to tackle.
I’m curious if anyone can find an existing solution!? I know there’s been a lot of discussion about tools that would “export” a WordPress site as static HTML. Usually, they’re in the context of performance, but building a layout to then export and implement into a rails app is a really interesting use case.
Let me know if you guys (or anyone else) comes up with a solution! I’ll keep an eye peeled too.
One thing that could be a small incremental step as we investigate possibilities, is, through BB, the ability to ‘View the HTML’ generated by BB for the page being edited.
Then we could cut and paste it into an editor a cherry-pick the structural elements that would be useful in a Rails layout/partial.
That would also help me better understand the BB-generated code and might lead to further ideas.
