Gramateria GrapesJS wrapper alternative to Webflow

[potemkin_ai]

@marcusquinn looks really promising, but with only 3 contributors and doesn’t seem to be updated very frequently

[humptydumpty]

@marcusquinn Thank you for this. Just created a site in minutes and exported it. Super easy to use, love it!

@potemkin_ai It works flawlessly and as a static site builder, why would it need frequent updates?

[marcusquinn]

@potemkin_ai I don't think there's much to update, since it's just a wrapper for some other products. No database, so nothing particular to secure either.

[robi]

Is there a place of templates or .gram files to import?

[marcusquinn]

@robi https://themeforest.net/category/site-templates or just copy/paste the html & css of any web page you like and then fiddle with it in the GrapesJS GUI.

[marcusquinn]

@marcusquinn Thinking about that, an "Import from URL" feature would be neat! Logged:

• https://github.com/ronaldaug/gramateria/issues/41

[timconsidine]

@marcusquinn I took a look at packaging this for a Cloudron app, because it's certainly useful, light-weight etc

But it seems to be built to be a local electron app, at least the link mentioned https://github.com/ronaldaug/gramateria

"And I want to keep Gramateria as a desktop based app."
From app author

But I don't want an app on local machine.

Can't see a server version ... except https://github.com/gramateria/gramateria.github.io which just links to THEIR hosted version.

No problem, it works, and can use that.
I just like to self-host.

[potemkin_ai]

@marcusquinn , @humptydumpty , I was thinking about new features set, etc - there is always a reason to release the product with something new, that would make it better, or at least to update packages and frameworks in use under the hood?

[robi]

@timconsidine said in Gramateria GrapesJS wrapper alternative to Webflow:

But it seems to be built to be a local electron app

If it can be deployed to Netlify, it can be self hosted.

There must be another target in the code for npm to use instead of npm pack for building the desktop app.

[robi]

I tracked down a windows binary someone made by forking the repo and building it.

Find it here:
https://github.com/monzersmiledev/gramateria/releases/tag/v1.0.6

[potemkin_ai]

it seems to be abandoned.