Show HN: Prototype and Style Web Apps with HTML Snapshots

Show HN: Prototype and Style Web Apps with HTML Snapshots(pinegrow.com)

37 points by mattront 7 years ago | 3 comments

gitgud 7 years ago |

This sounds like a great tool. So if I understand the tool correctly:

1. you snapshot the rendered HTML of a webapp at a specific page

2. Send it to someone to style that snapshot

3. Developer gets back that styled snapshot and incorporates the changes back into the app?

Is there a means for the developer to diff the old snapshot and the newly styled HTML? That could make it much easier to manage the changes.

Cool idea though!!

andyonthewings 7 years ago |

The product sounds great to me! The workflow is pretty much the same as the one I'm using currently with my girl friend.

I haven't tried Pinegrow Snapshots or Pinegrow Web Editor yet. Just by reading the description, I'm not sure how I go from "STEP 2 - EDITING" to "STEP 3 - SHARING & FEEDBACK". Concretely, when do the edited snaphots got pushed to GitHub? Step 3 mentioned GitHub and Slack, are they required tools or can I substitute them with, say, Dropbox and talking to each other face to face?

mattront 7 years ago | |

Using Github and Slack are just examples. Snapshots and Pinegrow Web Editor work with your local files, so you can use whatever tools and workflow you prefer.

Pinegrow Snapshots has a single feature – taking HTML snapshots. Use your other tools (like Pinegrow Web Editor, GitHub, Slack…) for editing, collaboration and implementing changes.