Do You Need Piny?

A Quick Guide to Help You Decide

✨ An interactive journey through Piny's capabilities

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Hi, I'm Matjaz from Pinegrow

Let's explore if Piny is right for your development workflow

🚀 Case 1: Astro, React, or NextJS Projects

If you're developing with these frameworks, Piny is for you!

🎯 Clear answer: YES, you need Piny!

🛠️ Piny helps with two key things:

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Tailwind CSS styling

Visual controls and inspector familiar from Pinegrow

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Visual navigation

Click on elements directly in the preview to navigate your code

🎓 Getting Started with Modern Frameworks

Want to learn Astro, React, or NextJS?

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Important to Know:

Piny won't handle the entire workflow like Pinegrow does for HTML projects

🎯 What Piny focuses on:

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Tailwind styling
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Visual project navigation

🔧 What You Still Need to Handle

Piny doesn't replace your development workflow

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Installing NPM modules
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Creating boilerplate code
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Writing database interface code
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Defining components
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App architecture planning

🤖 AI Tools to the Rescue

Perfect companions for Piny

🔥 Recommended AI tools:

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Cursor
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Vinv
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Replit
❤️
Lovable
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Perfect Workflow:

Use AI tools to scaffold React apps and handle components/database calls, then use Piny for styling and navigation!

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Case 2: Static HTML or WordPress

You DON'T need Piny

📄 Static HTML & WordPress Development

Pinegrow Web Editor is all you need

✨The simplicity of static HTML is unmatched in web development

🎯 Pinegrow excels at:

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Visual HTML work
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CSS styling
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Tailwind integration
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WordPress themes & blocks
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Interactions
🎉 Verdict: Pinegrow is the perfect fit - no Piny needed!
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Case 3: Other Technologies

PHP, ASP, Ruby on Rails, etc.

⚙️ Other Technologies & Frameworks

Piny probably won't help much

⚠️ Current limitations:

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Piny won't understand your component structure
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No hot reload support
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Changes won't reflect immediately in browser
💡Exception: You might still use it for visual Tailwind styling

This may change as we expand framework support in the future

🚀 Try Piny for Free

The best way to decide

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Basic version is free
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Install from extension marketplace
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Free trial included
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Test premium features

✨ Premium Features to Try:

✓ Visual select
✓ Custom Tailwind configurations
✓ Advanced styling tools
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Thank You!

Have fun exploring Piny

- Matjaz from Pinegrow 🌲