What is Fractal?
Fractal is an open-source, cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) and prototyping tool created specifically for web application development. It allows developers to efficiently build, test and deploy modern web applications by providing a complete toolchain in a single application.
Some key features of Fractal include:
- Built-in code editor with syntax highlighting and auto-completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web technologies
- Live preview and prototyping functionality to test web app UIs and interactions
- Debugging tools for client-side and server-side code
- Built-in terminal, Git integration, code linting and other essential developer tools
- Support for frontend frameworks like React, Vue, Angular
- Built-in asset pipeline, bundler and transpiler
- Deployments to hosts like Netlify, AWS, Firebase etc.
Overall, Fractal aims to provide an all-in-one web development environment that lets developers efficiently go from idea to deployed application. Its combination of coding features, prototyping capabilities and built-in tools makes it a good option for web developers looking for a streamlined workflow.