Floro

Floro is a version control system for things that are better represented through visual diffing than line-number oriented diffing. In web and mobile development these are things like SVG icons, rich text content, translations, as well as color palettes and themes. At its core, floro allows developers to create applications for visual content types that can be diffed meaningfully.

In addition to versioning, floro allows content plugins to share data in a manner similar to how files in an OS interoperate. For example, our SVG Icon plugin uses the data from our theming plugin to automatically create dark mode versions of each icon. This makes floro an excellent tool for centralizing static content that can be consumed across multiple code repositories.

Floro ultimately enables non-technical team members to contribute to a code-base in a type-safe manner that is respectful of engineering processes. Floro lets content contributors test out offline-changes with your production website or app as their canvas for testing. You can let a designer directly add icons to your code-base or test out a new color theme, or let a copy-editor test a new tag-line or fix a typo. They can then open up merge requests and make live content changes to production that you can guarantee won't break your application, all without having to redeploy a new build of your app.