React Flow
Languages and libraries
react ui library
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
15 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Well designed API, good docs and sane defaults
From 1 comment
I've been using this the last few weeks on a synthesizer side project and it's been absolutely fantastic. A well designed API and easy to customise, excellent docs and sane…
pdaddyo on HN
Beautiful, clear examples and documentation
From 2 comments
This is really, really impressive. Nice clear, and good looking examples, looks to have clear documentation, and nice informative README. I've been tossing some ideas around…
misnome on HNBeautiful library
andretti1977 on HN
Works well on phones
From 1 comment
Pretty amazing that https://reactflow.dev/examples/ works so well on phone.
janaagaard on HN
Objections
Name overloads 'Flow' and 'node' terms
From 2 comments
Neat project, awful name. Overloading Flow, an already important part of the React ecosystem, just makes it harder to both find information about your project and find…
larzang on HNYikes; alternate uses for _two_ already-overloaded terms ("flow" and "node") in the tagline? Naming things isn't _that_ hard. Less of a nitpick and more of a red flag wrt wisdom…
chrisweekly on HN
Requests
Automatic layout built in
From 2 comments
Does it support auto positioning like in MindMaps? e.g. everytime I hit `tab` I get sub node then I hit several times let's say I have 10 sub nodes now, auto positioned.
ertucetin on HNSeconding this. I'm a big fan of dagre due to its layouting. Curious if this can do the same...
adverbly on HN
Svelte or vanilla version
From 2 comments
Does anyone know about something like this for Vue and Svelte? :)
pabe on HNIs there a vanilla version so I can use this with Svelte
FractalHQ on HN
React Native support
From 1 comment
Looks amazing! Any plans on supporting React Native (RNW)? I couldn't find any mention of React Native on the github page.
jfbaro on HN
Questions
Design choices of SVG vs divs vs canvas
From 2 comments
Wow I really like it! Can you maybe break down some of the design decisions you've made building this? I'm especially interested in choosing full svg, svg for just the lines and…
technicolorwhat on HNI also wondered why mix divs and svg rather than doing it all in SVG? or all in HTML? although it seems to position and resize just fine
high_byte on HN
Does it support ports
From 1 comment
Does React flow support ports?
tracardi on HN
Alternatives named
Butterfly (alibaba)
From 1 comment
Butterfly [1] by alibaba has a vue wrapper (along with a React one) over a framework independent core. It is not as well documented though. [1] https://github.com/alibaba/butterfly
lf-non on HN
Reaflow
From 1 comment
Mortiz does some awesome stuff. I built a similar project called reaflow ( https://reaflow.dev/ ) which handles some more complicated cases around nesting and layout.
amcdnl on HN
Dynamo
From 1 comment
Looks cool. Looks similar to dynamo. https://dynamobim.org/ I'm curious if that's your inspiration.
victorbojica on HN
Apache Airflow UI
From 1 comment
That's cool. It's a little like Apache Airflow's UI. (Edit: is it Airflow?)
robertlagrant on HN