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you can steal react components from any website without source code most people screenshot UIs and ask AI to recreate them. but with react fiber, you can extract the exact component 1:1 - same styling, props, design system, component structure

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Aiden Bai9 months ago

whoa this is a really good article! i spent a bunch of time writing out a structured lib (that handles a bunch of edge cases, glues stuff together). might be helpful for your use case

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david fant9 months ago

thx - i read bippy when digging into and trying to understand react internals

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Aiden Bai9 months ago

glad it was helpful!

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Dennison9 months ago

I gave this to Claude and he made it a skill AND created a React-Grab style navigator to help you select elements (and optionally use React Grab!)

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Matt Rickard9 months ago

nicely written -- need to convert this to a skill md

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Michael9 months ago

I've been building for over a month and I still learned a lot here. Thanks a lot for the beautiful guide. It's going to make GrabLens 10x better!

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Charles Maddock9 months ago

Sweet! Def stealing some components from your page

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David9 months ago

I have actually made an extension that uses this to generate animated videos of your webpage to make presentation videos

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Hang Huang9 months ago

Very nice, what did you use to make this site btw?

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david fant9 months ago

cursor and opus

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Hang Huang9 months ago

Valid Super clean, thought it was a framework

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Alex Greenland9 months ago

what if you webpacked/bundled with minified js and without a map file

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Dmytro Omelian 🇺🇦9 months ago

this is the kind of hack that quietly changes how people prototype curious how you think about the ethics though: steal to learn and move faster vs. crossing a line into cloning feels like a superpower that needs some guardrails

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Matheus9 months ago

damn this is an insane article, well done!

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Shane9 months ago

Love the use of the word steal

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ray arayilakath ‎.߆9 months ago

@aidenybai may interest you if you haven’t seen it already :)

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fredrika9 months ago

v cool!! love the preview

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Mogomra (e/acc)9 months ago

Good luck stealing my app. The business logic is hidden behind seven layers of abstraction

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David Gelberg9 months ago

you can just steal things

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Marc Gregory9 months ago

is this a chrome extension that extracts?

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Duncan9 months ago

this is very good

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Priya Sharma9 months ago

wild how the browser holds secret blueprints, just waiting for curious minds to peek behind the curtain. code is never as hidden as we think.

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chizhao9 months ago

Is this like advanced inspect element

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Stephen Rayner9 months ago

Instead of doing this, you should go back to the previous prompt edit it and say this is not a working solution as it would produce this result and provided the result that they gave you along with the code generated before because you are editing the previous response so it’s no longer in the context window. It’s really important you do it this way because scientific research shows generating followed by N corrective steps is not as good as generating it in times without any corrective steps

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Alex9 months ago

stealing this

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hendo9 months ago

Beautiful, thanks for this

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Luis9 months ago

what a great read this was ty

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seye9 months ago

This is great work

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Marc Gregory9 months ago

claude code plugin surely

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bk9 months ago

this gonna get into 10s of thousands in likes and bookmarks

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Ben Williams9 months ago

Fantastic article!

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United Records9 months ago

interesting

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Clyde9 months ago

Insanely good

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Soumya Mukherjee9 months ago

are the cards supposed to look like this?

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TechGringo9 months ago

React Fiber deep dive unlocked. This is the kind of knowledge that changes how you think about building UIs. Nice drop.

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Imulep9 months ago

Folks been using that for a long time

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Zahid9 months ago

If we can integrate this to the browser inspect area so devs can have a full cycle of development when working I think would be pretty cool

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varletint9 months ago

you're going to jail 😂

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