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Visual Screen Editor with Live Preview

Swifty Team Feb 1, 2026 3 min read

Building a page used to require writing code. Describing layout in abstract terms, refreshing the browser, adjusting, refreshing again. The feedback loop was slow, and small mistakes cost time.

The visual screen editor changes that entirely.

See What You're Building

The editor shows you a live preview of the page as you build it. Add a component, and it appears on the canvas immediately. Move it, and the canvas updates. Change a setting in the side panel, and the preview reflects it in real time.

You're not working from mental models or rough approximations. You're looking at the actual page your users will see — the same layout, the same components, the same data shapes. What you build is what gets delivered.

Choose From a Component Library

The editor provides a library of ready-made components — tables, panels, metrics cards, buttons, forms, navigation elements, and more. Building a page is a matter of picking what you need and placing it where it belongs.

Components aren't visual primitives that you style from scratch. They're business-ready building blocks with built-in behavior. A data table already knows how to sort, filter, and paginate. A metrics card already knows how to pull a value from your data. You configure them, you don't build them.

Arrange Without Limits

Pages are structured using a flexible layout system. Components sit inside columns, which sit inside rows, which sit inside panels. Drag to reposition. Resize by dragging handles. Nest structures for complex page compositions.

The hierarchy is visible in the layer panel alongside the canvas — a Figma-style tree of every element on the page. Clicking a layer selects it on the canvas and opens its settings. You can navigate the structure either way: through the visual canvas or through the layer tree.

Publish With Confidence

Because the preview is live and accurate, publishing is a low-risk action. You've already seen the result. There are no surprises after you save.

Changes take effect immediately — no deployment steps, no build process, no waiting. The platform handles the infrastructure so you can focus entirely on the product.

The visual screen editor makes page building accessible to anyone who understands what they want to show users, regardless of technical background. That's the design philosophy behind it: remove the friction between the idea and the outcome.

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