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Howdy—Robin Rendle here.

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Framer Fetch

This doesn’t have much to do with CSS, but this new feature by Framer called Fetch caught my eye:

The reason why I mention this is because it shows a snapshot of what the future of web design tools might be: they’re not just going to allow you to draw pixels on a canvas, but allow you to build real, interactive software that pings a database.

That’s exciting to me! As a designer by day, I want to make better prototypes of my designs and using real data helps sell my ideas. But it also makes me a little fearful for the future of front-end development? I would see something like this as a prototyping tool, ready to give to a talented UI engineer to build properly once I’m finished with it, but I fear that folks will see this and think of ditching front-end developers altogether.