The Digital Press

A new project called XMLUI brings back the Visual Basic-style component model to modern web development by wrapping React components in XML markup, enabling easier app creation without deep React or CSS expertise.

Why it matters: XMLUI empowers non-expert developers and AI assistants to build reactive, themed, and maintainable web apps with minimal code.

The big picture: It revives a component ecosystem like the 1990s Visual Basic era, offering a simpler alternative to complex React+CSS development for many business applications.

The stakes: Without such tools, many teams must rely on specialists for frontend UI work, increasing cost and slowing development.

Commenters say: Users appreciate XMLUI’s simplicity and accessibility but raise questions about deployment workflows, comparisons to XSLT and XAML, and the limits of no-code approaches.