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Show HN: CrossUI Studio – a visual IDE for React that edits your real AST

CrossUI Studio is a visual IDE for React that allows developers to edit the real Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of their code, providing a direct visual development environment for building React applications.

Background

CrossUI Studio is a visual development environment (IDE) for React, a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It lets developers edit their code by directly manipulating a visual representation of the app's components, rather than writing code by hand. The key technical claim is that it operates on the "real AST" (Abstract Syntax Tree) — the underlying structured representation of the code — which means changes made visually are reflected as clean, readable source code, not bloated or unmaintainable output. This distinguishes it from older "low-code/no-code" tools that often produce hard-to-edit code or lock users into proprietary formats. The project appeared on Hacker News (a tech news aggregator) as a "Show HN" post, meaning it's a personal project or startup sharing their creation with the community for feedback.