@duncan I’d pay regularly for a Sparkle hosting service.
My use case may be different than others. I primarily use sparkle for making functional landers very quickly that we test against controls on our main site.
Currently my workflow is,
- Make it in sparkle
- Upload it to a DriveHq.com to show to the team and test responsiveness on different sized devices. Then, when it’s ready to test, I. . .
- Export the code & assets from Sparkle to desktop ( usually just pictures + graphics + css)
- Upload the assets I just exported to our main site (hosted on wp).
- Get the urls of the assets I just uploaded.
- Replace the asset urls within the code sparkle exported in step 3 with the new urls of the assets I just uploaded to our site.
- Copy all the code with the new asset urls
- Paste the code onto a new page on our site.
- Launch it!
Unfortunately we use a builder on wordpress which means, I can’t just upload the files and folders that Sparkle exports every time I want to run a page I made in sparkle. Instead I have to upload the assets, get their urls, make a new page with our builder, and add a custom html/css/js element to the page where I then past the sparkle code. Still, it’s all worth it. There’s literally NOTHING like sparkle out there. I can write and design at the same dang time.
I’d pay regularly — either on a yearly or monthly basis for a built-in sparkle web host that I could publish pages to. That would cut one step out of the above flow.
