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Life & fun · October 25, 2011

draughtsman, a webserver for front-end devs

Transparent compilation of templates and stylesheets for prototyping HTML interfaces. Also live reloading. - debrouwere/draughtsman

draughtsman, a webserver for front-end devs launched on October 25, 2011 with 45 votes, #29 of 292 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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In plain words

Draughtsman is a webserver designed for front-end developers that compiles templates and stylesheets for HTML interface prototyping. It features live reloading, automatically refreshing the browser when files change. The tool handles template and stylesheet compilation transparently, streamlining the prototyping workflow without requiring manual build steps.

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