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📣 gessha

What tools/methods do you use for rapid web prototyping?


Since I have a lot of time and ideas on my hands, I try to prototype my ideas as fast as possible because I don't want to forget the inspiration that caused them.

What are your tools for backend/frontend/database design?

My current methods are: - live-reload on both backend and frontend - dividing work days into backend+db/frontend only - LLM prompting for small tasks/snippets

For stack related advice, my current stack is: - backend: Python(Flask) - frontend: JS/Bootstrap - db: sqlite


  👤 tithe Accepted Answer ✓
For very rough prototypes, a XAMPP localhost with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; ready to go in about 10 seconds. The bottleneck then becomes how fast you can "Ctrl+S, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+R" (or insert a 1 second refresh meta tag on a split screen and "Ctrl+S" only...but after a while even a 1 second refresh starts to feel slow).