Show HN: Mirrorful – A developer-first way to implement designs faster

by teddarificon 3/29/23, 3:19 PMwith 25 comments
by yewenjieon 3/29/23, 9:10 PM

Interesting. Two questions

1. How does this compare/relate to https://backlight.dev/?

2. How does a designer work with this? Is it meant to be used by developers only? Where does this fit in the Figma --> Code workflow?

by joduplessison 3/29/23, 6:47 PM

Nice work! Whilst I do love the hands-on approach of something like Style Dictionary, I can see the value prop here. Especially with design system standards semi-converging (in the wild at least).

Any plans on supporting native platforms in the future (sorry if I missed it in the docs)?

by awbon 3/30/23, 6:29 AM

FYI, https://app.mirrorful.com/ on Chrome/iOS Mobile has several z-index and overflow issues.

by Nijikokunon 3/29/23, 5:59 PM

Whats the benefit of this over something like docz or storybook? Which are also agnostic to framework?

by digdugdirkon 3/29/23, 6:56 PM

Interesting. Given the "design tokens" aspect, would it be possible for a non frontend/non Javascript developer to use this to design components that could be imported and used with PyScript?

by lancehassonon 3/29/23, 11:04 PM

The demo video you have is really well put together. The language is great, it has good pacing & touches all the right points. I really liked the tone & attitude of the person recording it. It's MVP'd in a way that it's not over produced, but uses simple tools to achieve a high quality regardless. Well done!

by codetastikon 3/30/23, 1:53 AM

I don't get how this works. Do the files that are imported have css rules defined? Am I supposed to then use those classes in my app? What about apps that not greenfield, do I need to replace all my classes with the ones that mirrorful exports?

Also is there an integration with bootstrap, and if so how would that work?

by jasonwcfanon 3/29/23, 9:24 PM

Congrats on the progress! Generative AI is all the hype now and there's a few startups exploring using AI to generate front-end code. Is this on your roadmap as well?

by haolezon 3/29/23, 10:56 PM

Looks interesting, but I'm looking into Flutter right now, so I guess this is not for me yet.

by t0rchlighton 3/30/23, 2:58 PM

Congrats on launch! Do you have any plans for Figma integration in your roadmap?

by tribbyon 3/30/23, 11:19 PM

congrats on the launch!