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Three Small Things I Added to Fix My UI That Made It Actually Useful in Real Work
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Three Small Things I Added to Fix My UI That Made It Actually Useful in Real Work

DEV Community·roynick365·about 1 month ago
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A few days ago I shipped Fix My UI, a browser tool that reviews HTML components and tells you what is wrong. The core idea was simple: paste HTML, get structured feedback, move on. It worked. But after using it myself for a couple of weeks I kept hitting the same friction points. So I fixed them. The friction points and what I did about each one Too many issues at once. When I reviewed a complex component I would sometimes get nine or ten issues back. I did not want to see all of them at the same time. I wanted to handle the critical ones first and come back to suggestions later. I added a severity filter. After a review runs, you can toggle critical, warning, and suggestion on and off independently. It sits in a thin bar below the result tabs and stays out of the way until you need it. Re-pasting the same HTML over and over. When I was iterating on a component, fixing one issue, then reviewing again, I kept copying and pasting the same HTML back into the input. On the third or fourth pass it got annoying.…

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