builder.io

Steve was working as an engineering manager at ShopStyle and found that an increasing amount of his team's time was spent working on custom requests from departments like marketing and sales. They tried moving to a headless CMS but the data and components couldn't keep up with ever evolving needs. They wanted a drag and drop system connected to their code, data, and components.

This pain point inspired him strike out on his own to create a new product. The vision was a tool that would allow colleagues from across a company to make changes to web pages without requesting dev time, but would also ensure that any changes made would be up to the standards of the design department and not introduce errors that engineering would then have to fix. 

Hence, the company's pitch for a plug & play system that integrates with your existing sites & apps. It relies on a few key ideas:

• API-based infrastructure that is native to your tech stack
• Works with any frontend or backend
• Build with your own data, like product catalogs or customer data platforms, to create rich, dynamic experiences

You can check it out for yourself over at Builder.io.

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Congrats to phoenisx for being awarded the Necromaner badge after answering the question: Property 'share' does not exist on type 'Navigator"? 

Continuing some of the recent discussions on MX Matters about headless architecture and systems, we learn how Thought Industries recently extended their customer education and external training platform to be headless.

Sam and Maribel at Cloudinary sit down with Jack Antico - Technical Program Manager at Thought Industries - to better understand the purpose of learning management systems and the considerations companies should take if they choose to go headless as part of their education and enablement-based plans.

Learn More about Thought Industries

• Company Website
• Developer Portal
• GitHub

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Adam Bradley joins to talk about some amazing new projects to help increase performance and productivity in Web Development: Partytown, Qwik, and Builder.io.

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Show Notes

• 00:00:00 - Intros
• 00:00:52 - Adam Bradley Introductions, Origins of Stencil and Ionic
• 00:08:16 - Qwik Performance Overview
• 00:15:31 - Sponsor Shoutout - Daily.dev
• 00:16:32 - Intelligent JavaScript Bundling and Prefetching
• 00:24:26 - Qwik vs Astro
• 00:29:40 - Sponsor Shoutout: Hashnode
• 00:30:26 - Learning in Modern Web Development
• 00:33:18 - Web Workers and Partytown
• 00:45:07 - Builder.io - "Drag and Drop on Your Tech Stack"

• 11:06 - Webflow released an update to the style manager
• 12:34 - Colleen’s Twitter thread on upcoming no-code events
• 14:19 - Glide announced they’re sharing revenue with experts (apply to be an expert)
• 14:44 - Bravo Studio is offering mobile development as-a-service (Enterprise)
• 15:22 - Autocode now has multi-player to make it easier to collab on your code
• 15:50 - Builder.io is an open source version of Shopify with a drag and drop editor
• 18:07 - Learn no-code in Webflow from supercreative.design (sponsored by 8020)
• 21:47 - John Scrugham built a thing — Future of work applications (made in Softr)
• 22:54 - Coda added the ability to link to any line in a doc and I’m here for it!
• 23:11 - Draftbit now has Google Fonts and inline text editing
• 23:30 - Draftbit is also looking for beta testers for deeplinking (email georges@draftbit.com)
• 23:57 - Is anyone using No Code Map App? Shoutout to Jono for putting me onto it!
• 25:11 - If you’re learning Webflow, you need to check out Jo Mor’s course
• 27:59 - Lacey’s TikTok with Frances
• 29:10 - Dynaboard lets you build full stack web apps with no-code
• 30:10 - AppMaster is a tool that lets you build backend/front-end/mobile app on one platform
• 30:44 - Clay looks like a gamechanger when it comes to leveling up your leads and sheets!
• 35:35 - RR Abrot