Why wouldn't figma be considered a crud app?
It’s still basically adding and updating things in a DB no?
With some highly complex things like rendering, collab and stuff.
(Fair question btw)
It's very, very far from a CRUD app or "just updating a DB". GUI-heavy apps are notoriously hard to get right. Any kind of "editable canvas" makes it 10x harder. Online collaboration is hard, so that's another 10x—there are known solutions, but it's an entire sidequest you have to pour a massive amount of effort into.
Custom text editing and rendering is really hard to do well.
Making everything smooth and performant to the point it's best-in-class while still adding new features is... remarkable.
(Speaking as someone who's writing a spreadsheet and slideshow editor myself...among other things)
You should look into figma. Its one of the few marvels of software engineering made in recent times.
If you want to know how tough realtime editing is, try making a simple collaborative drawing tool or something. Or an online 2 player text adventure game
airstrike|4 months ago
Custom text editing and rendering is really hard to do well.
Making everything smooth and performant to the point it's best-in-class while still adding new features is... remarkable.
(Speaking as someone who's writing a spreadsheet and slideshow editor myself...among other things)
dpark|4 months ago
samrus|4 months ago
If you want to know how tough realtime editing is, try making a simple collaborative drawing tool or something. Or an online 2 player text adventure game
Theres a reason tutorials for those arent common