<jewel-ui.dev> Jewel now has a landing page! Half ...

# jewel

[seb]

jewel-ui.dev Jewel now has a landing page! Half Claude's work half mine, to be clear 🙂

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it would be great to have a components page

[seb]

It'll come, but currently blocked on JEWEL-1390, adding Spectre properly to the intellij-community bazel build so the screenshots can be auto-generated

[seb]

(that is WIP)

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Great! Is Spectre going to integrate the IntelliJ repo? That's great news.

[seb]

Well unless they stop me lol but I don't see why they should give there is no alternative

[seb]

I've been working on Spectre for months with the idea of being able to have a non-unit test way to validate and screenshot Compose UI, and in particular, Jewel

[seb]

I've used it successfully in several projects and fixed many early bugs by now; after it ships in IJ I'll probably feel confident enough to call it 1.0.0

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or else Jewel would have had to be made Compose Multiplatform compatible, and thus generate a Compose Web rendering hehe 🙄

[seb]

I'm also planning a minor cooperation with the hot reload team so that they can commit to a couple details in their impl that I can then use in Spectre too (there's an early agreement on that, for their 1.3, but we need to discuss better when they're back from vacation)

[seb]

Nice try, not in scope 😁

[seb]

Int UI makes little sense outside of native desktop anyway

[seb]

If you want something more portable you want something less optimised for desktop, like the unstyled components

[seb]

The goal is not to be a jack of all trades, master of none

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yes i was kidding, jewel has no sense on android and ios, then on the web for panels why not

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but even for panels, I wasn't satisfied with my experience with Compose Web anyway

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if I were to do it again, I would do it with kobweb

[seb]

Yeah tbh compose on web is more of a fun novelty than anything for what I need; same as flutter web. I'd rather use native web tech at that point

[seb]

Especially these days when all llms can do web front-end and I don't have to touch the dirty innards XD

[seb]

I'd even go as far as to say that LLMs make cross platform UI solutions even less attractive than they already were to me; I'd rather have native when possible.

[seb]

And on desktop native means many things but to me Compose is still the best option by far, unless you have an incredibly strong reason to go per-os native (e.g., you only support macOS, or Windows; or the whole point of your app is to integrate with the OS directly)