So I had a similar question recently and wanted to get framerjs working on my windows machine (needed for compatibility in my job). I wanted to get as close as possible to a framer studio experience. What I learned in the process is that framer studio is a collection of disparate technologies that all exist already. For instance here was the setup:

• local nodejs server
• live reload plugin watching a folder for changes
• sublime text (IDE) with coffeescript syntax highlighting
• modern web browser

All of these technologies can be installed with npm onto any machine - mac, linux, windows. But what framer studio does well is automate the annoying process of running the setup, copying code, opening different programs etc.

When the problem is broken down like this you can start to see how a very simple gui could be created by writing a simple windows/mac app with a webview that is just a set of scripts to automate this process. And then begin to grow and edit that custom web-view from there. If you look at the history of framer - the early iterations were essentially this setup at facebook, and they used their internal design team as the alpha users and improved based on feedback etc.

Even though I have never built a product like this. I am almost positive a good direction is just to hack together a solution to the problems you want to solve then find a small userbase and evolve your novel/easier solution to meet needs and you will be able to add and edit over time. Stuff like this doesn't happen quickly unless you have a loot of money.

Anyway just my 2 cents :) Good luck!

edit: I wanted to add - the reason framer studio works so well imo is the backbone - the actual framer.js library - the incredible simplification of complex scripting to get interaction working and working natively. For that you gotta find a genius, so thats maybe the hardest part :)

I have similar experience building an Survey Editor for my company. You sure need to look at the JavaScript ecosystem like NPM, React.js, Electron. You also need solid data structure and UI architecture like undo-redo command actions, etc.

Atomic.io is using React.js to do their thing. They seems to get their playback structure right.

Data structure you can look at immutable.js, Om of Clojurescript.

Look at how Circle CI's Local State, Global Concern demo.

It is very workable, pick a small layout to build, like drag and drop some UI or picture into the <Canvas> and soon you will have a much better idea.

I think you're asking the wrong question. You're asking about frameworks and programming languages. I think you should be concerned about architecture and code volume.

GUIs like Framer have multiple layers to their application code, and each layer can be quite complex. The relations between these layers have to be carefully considered. And any application that performs editing operations is incomplete without things like undo-redo, copy/paste, drag and drop, etc... Undo-redo in particular is extremely painful to put in your code if you didn't plan for it.

In other words you're looking at a beast. It's not about frameworks, it's about whether you'll be able to keep your code from turning into a hairball. And if you haven't built anything big lately, it'll be challenging to avoid the pitfalls.

My recommendation: do try to build something if you're so inspired, but pick something with a simple, limited scope. Build it with anything that looks nice right now. You'll learn a lot more from getting to the end of a smaller project than getting irremediably stuck in a massive undertaking.

Cheers and good luck!

If you think you can do it better than anyone else, I urge you to find the people that could do it, and go do it.

But, if you were looking for a side project to learn off of, I would go with @OF's advice to focus on one single thing to learn that you're after, and then find the project that requires it

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