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Ask HN: What front-end framework are you using to quickly prototype websites?

1 points by koheripbal ↗ HN
I'm looking to prototype a web product, but I don't want to (yet) get overly invested in web design and development.

Is there a responsive front-end framework that has standard UI components that I can throw together, maybe connect to some simple backend DB queries and launch without too much custom development?

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gtsop
1) pen and paper. 2) wordpress.
koheripbal
I've used Wordpress a lot in the past, and while it's ok for post/blog type websites, it's not super functional for more app-like websites. There's a lot of click-wait-for-https-response-goto-new-page type action.

I was hoping for something a little more modern that feels more responsive and app-like.

gtsop
I understand, but to my knowledge there isn't something you can use to make such a thing and not invest time to learn it. Thus my choices are the ones with the least investment needed.

If you are to invest some time to learn any tool for prototyping, you might as well go for a proper framework. First you can use any of the dozen UI frameworks (like bootstrap) to get away with not writting css. Then, as one auggested you can go with pure js/html. I might also suggest you could throw a highly productive js framework in the mix like react or ember

austincheney
Vanilla JavaScript. I have developed a refined pattern that I can copy paste from one project to the next.