alt Hacker NewsMotion is an excellent library so I gave this a go on a prod site. Some feedback
- I LOVE the concept, no clunky SaaS, you add the package and start it on your dev server and it just works. It seamlessly did with my vite based build.
- Needs a diff view which tells me what the agent is going to change when I publish my changes, right now it's a bit scary to use without it (not sure if it does once you try to publish changes, I didn't get that far in the process)
- I don't see the point of the "draw" feature. Maybe it's because I envision this kind of tool being used so that non-technical members of the team can make small design changes without dev support, and not as a way to design from scratch, but maybe you have a use-case for it.
- Integration with tailwindcss would be a killer feature, this particular project uses tailwind so all the styles in the style view show as the default ones but of course they're being applied via classes. You could detect tailwind classes and either show them separately or resolve them and show what they do in the styles view, then on publish you'd tell the agent to edit using tailwind classes
I agree with what others have said, a video or even better a live demo would be great. A demo would be extra work but would be super cool, as a stopgap you could have a stackblitz demo maybe.
The client-side injected js -> mcp flow is brilliant though. I might have to steal that idea for some projects I'm working in, I can imagine a lot of scenarios where it would make a great interface
Thanks for your feedback!
I just pushed a video to the homepage, there was already a live demo though, it was actually quite simple to implement (mostly gate a few things). There was a bit of a fear that agent somewhere out there would still be listening though...
I think a diff is an excellent idea. Perhaps with the ability to remove specific changes and switch before/after.
In terms of Tailwind, I'm thinking about a token/strict mode which would detect Tailwind classes and CSS variables. It wouldn't expose these in the sense you had to apply each one manually, but if you were for instance changing padding, it would snap between all your pre-defined tokens.
For the draw feature I think I'm just heavily Framer-pilled and it lets you pre-determine a rough width and height within a stack. But perhaps there's space for a click-to-add also with minimum dimensions.