
Compositor Lab
React UI component design tool
Compositor Lab launched on November 27, 2017 with 210 votes, #136 of 3,137 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
What it does
Compositor is a new set of tools for designing and building user interfaces.
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- AVA Visual IDE for React2022 · dev.aspect.app · ▲479
I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!

Composify – Open-Source Visual Editor / Server-Driven UI for ReactDec 2025 · github.com · ▲73Everyone's shipping AI tools right now, and here I am with a visual editor. Still, I think many teams are very familiar with the problem of "marketing wants to change the landing page again." I've run into this for years. Campaign pages come in, engineers get pulled in, and tickets stack up. It's usually the same components, just rearranged. A few years ago, at a startup I worked at, we built an internal tool to deal with this. You register your existing React components, they show up as drag-and-drop blocks, and the result is a JSX string. No schema to learn, no changes to your component…
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