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Looks nice!

It seems that any "logic" (conditionals, iterators, etc) in the components will prevent the component (and their children) from being inspectable.

Is the intent to keep it "no-code" in this respect (i.e. effectively a visual JSX editor), or will you be adding the ability to inspect more "dynamic" components to make it useful for app development?

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Our goal isn't a no-code tool, but rather an editor that provides the tools for both developers and designers. We're iteratively improving the level of complexity of code that we can fully parse and expose to the rest of the editor, so you can expect these kinds of cases to become fewer and far between over time.

If you do have specific cases that you come across and are interested in following the development or just want to let us know of them, please do file an issue on our GitHub repo.

Are you planning to expose the JSX editing capabilities as a library, so that it could be used for e.g. non-web-UI editing?

I've been working on a React/JSX wrapper for OpenJSCAD (a solid CAD library), where the "viewer" (that shows the rendered model) offers simple interactivity that is decoupeled from the code. It would be amazing if that could be extended to allow for editing the code when you interact with parts of the model in the viewer (as you would do in traditional CAD programs).

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