#Frontend development

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sleek spruce
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how does people do fe development, how they see the ui they made?

left kettleBOT
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Usually like this:

  1. write the UI code
  2. run a local dev server, like pnpm dev / npm run dev
  3. open localhost:3000 or similar in a browser
  4. keep coding while the page auto-refreshes (hot reload)

Common setup:

  • React/Vue/Svelte/Next/Vite app
  • browser for live preview
  • DevTools to inspect layout, CSS, network, console
  • Storybook for isolated component work
  • Playwright/Cypress for UI tests
  • sometimes mobile emulator/device if it’s responsive or app-like

So the short answer is: people usually just run the app locally and view it in the browser while editing.