# Handcoding is faster?

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**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/handcoding-is-faster/2509 "2018-12-13T11:57:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thomas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/thomas/32/61_2.png) [@Thomas](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Thomas)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/handcoding-is-faster/2509/4 "2018-12-14T10:25:24Z")

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Oh - I love giving this a try!

Handcoding is somehow faster, indeed. Assumed you’d set a background color, such as …

```
 .not-sure-how-to-name-this-class-yet {
background-color: #bada55
}

```

this is certainly quicker typed as seeking for color-wheel somewhere in the interface.

But why do apps like PG exist?

One thing I recently stumbled upon is, that there is a huge difference between production-code and prototyping. While the first is to be seen in terms of quality, the latter doesn’t mind much about class-names or the like. This reminded me on the outstanding advantages of Pinegrow simply creating atoms, molecules, organisms whatever - even in “inline-styles” turning them in robust code later. This saves me even apps especially created for this - I’m creating code, visually supported code to be pedant.

An actual use case of Pinegrow is getting a head around CSS Grid. I’d win any bet being faster in PG than in any other dev surrounding - promised.

Although I mentioned it earlier in some threads that Pinegrow makes Prototyping apps (XD or Sketch or the like) nearby redundant - this idea is certainly not coming from me. The entire article is by Jeremy Keith (this guy is awesome btw.) and can be found here:

> **[Prototypes and production](https://adactio.com/journal/14562)**
>
> Don’t build prototypes with a production mindset. Don’t release prototype code into production.

Perhaps he’s doing us the favour once being in the house.

Cheers

Thomas

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