Destack 🔌 Own your stack. Embrace your design.

Build landing pages visually right in your Next.js project. Deploy them zero further configuration!

Example in production: prettyfunnels.com

What's Destack?

It's a tool to build landing pages within your Next.js project. It's powered by Grapes.js and includes the complete set of blocks from Tailblocks.cc. Supports asset uploading, form submission and a variaty of Tailwind colors.

Destack is a tool to help you stop worrying about the marketing pages and focus on your project.

Features

🧱 Powerful Blocks

There are 92 well designed and heavily functional blocks from the Tailblocks project. Supports Tailwind's theme colors ie. Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Purple & Pink.

🃏 Delightful Builder

Powered by Grapes.js, a flexible and feature-full editor similar to Webflow that supports margins, paddings, borders and a lot of others CSS-like options that are familiar to developers.

🕹 Data Ownership

Destack stores all your assets on Github, Bitbucket etc through the editor. There are no external dependencies to manage or worry about.

🏞 Assets & Forms Support

Stores the images uploaded in the editor in your repository & displays them when needed on production. Also supports HTML and API form submission out of the box.

👩🏻‍💻 Easy Setup & Deployment

Works existing & new Next.js projects. Requires minimal setup and no extra configuration to deploy your landing pages to production.

Getting Started

With a new project:

Fork the destack-starter project
OR deploy a project to Vercel:
OR preview it online with Gitpod:

With an existing project:

1. Install Destack on your Next.js project

npm i destack

2. Setup the builder endpoint

Create pages/api/builder/handle.js and add the following:

export { handleData as default, config } from 'destack/build/server'

3. Then create a new page

On any Next.js page you want to setup Destack:

import 'grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css'
export { getStaticProps } from 'destack/build/server'
export { ContentProvider as default } from 'destack'

How to use along other components

import { ContentProvider } from 'destack'
import 'grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css'

export { getStaticProps } from 'destack/build/server'

export default function Page(props) { 
    return (
        <div style={{height: '100%'}}>
            <span>Hello world</span>
            <ContentProvider {...props}/>
        </div>)
}

How it works

🛠 Destack is composed of two main components, the first is a React component that shows the editor or the generated page and the second is a Next.js API route that saves your progress to your repository.

👨‍💻 When you run the project in development (ie. with npm run dev) the React component understands it from the NODE_ENV environment variable and shows you the editor where you can create your landing page visually.

💡 Every change you make goes to the API route which updates a default.json file. That file contains the HTML for your landing page and it remembers how you structure your page so you can come back later to update it.

🚀 When is time to go in production (ie. do npm run build or deploy to Vercel) the React component reads NODE_ENV again and statically generates the HTML version of the page you build in the editor from the default.json file Destack created for you earlier.

How to's & guides

Adding an HTML form

Drop a block that contains a form
Click on the form & head to components settings
Add form URL & check async if don't want a redirection
To handle a async forms you can create an API route (eg. api/submit.js)

Uploading images

Drop a block that contains an image or use image block
Click on an image to open the upload modal
Select the image you want to update and click on it to add it to the page
Notes: Images are uploaded to public/uploaded with their original filenames

Show editor in production

Install Destack to a new or existing project
Set showEditorInProd={true} in the ContentProvider component
The result should be similar to Destack Online Builder

Code snippet

import { ContentProvider } from 'destack'
import 'grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css'

export { getStaticProps } from 'destack/build/server'

export default function Page(props) { 
  return (
    <div style={{height: '100%'}}>
      <ContentProvider {...props} showEditorInProd={true}/>
    </div>)
}

Contributing to the project

See CONTRIBUTING.md

How is this possible?

This project was none's bright idea. It was not something that was planned and design in depth in advance. Instead it was evolved out of the need and enjoyment of using some amazing tools and prototype quickly. These projects heavily improved my developer life and a few of my friends'.

Next.js 🅧 ➕ Tailwind CSS 🍃 ➕ Grapes.js 🍇 = 💣💣

Please go and show these projects some love (⭐️). Don't forget to check out Tailblocks.cc, without Mert's amazing designs none of this would have been possible.

Contributors

Made with contributors-img.

Upcoming Tasks

Custom tailwind.config.js file
Tests for local editor & editor in prod
Move builder API route to next.config.js

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