HN Explorer

Show HN: Review Vogue, my web dev tool that uses nodejs and socket.io

4 points by andrewdavey ↗ HN
I wanted to learn some nodejs. So I built a handy tool over the weekend, called Vogue. Vogue watches your website's CSS files. Whenever you save changes in your editor, Vogue tells all browsers currently using those stylesheets to re-download the CSS. So each browser visually updates, without having to reload the entire page.

It's near instant, much faster than switching between browsers and reloading manually.

This page has more info, including a 2-minute screencast show Vogue in action: http://aboutcode.net/vogue/

The source is here: https://github.com/andrewdavey/vogue

I'd love to get some feedback (on the code, the website, anything) from the HN-crowd. Thank you.

6 comments

[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 21.3 ms ] thread
madhouse
The website's colors hurt my eyes, the uneven height of strifes are also fairly annoying. However, the idea sounds interesting, and since it's on github, and I don't have to visit the website ever again, I'll give it a try!

If it does work as I expect it to work, this'll be a very nice addition to my collection of favourite tools.

andrewdavey
Thank you for the feedback. The colors look fine to me (in all the browsers I've tried). What OS & browser are you using? I'm not sure what you mean by "strifes"; stripes perhaps? Why would making the colored stripes the same height be better? Have I misunderstood?
madhouse
Chrome on Debian Lenny (Linux) - it's not a rendering issue, it's just that I find too many background colors annoying.

And yeah, I meant stripes, sorry. Making them the same height would result in less colors on a page, thus would ease it on my eyes :)

Mind you, this is a very subjective opinion.

By the way, the tool works like a charm - tank you!

andrewdavey
Thanks for the follow up. My girlfriend has kindly offered her design skills, so I hope she can make something much nicer soon :)

I'm glad the tool works - let me know if you have any ideas for it.

veb
I agree... the colors hurt. I suggest the guy makes it one pale color and leaves it at that.

@OP - Awesome! I'll give it a try, I'm currently in the midst of something where this could help me tremendously.