Someone mentioned https://directus.io/ to me for this use case the other day. I've not used it, but it looks good. Open source and self hostable or SaaS.
Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
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Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#12I'm a founder of Appsmith that has already been mentioned here. It's an open source project to help you build CRUD UI on top on any database(MySQL, Postgres included) or API. We give UI components to create forms, charts, tables, etc.
GitHub link: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#13I'm working on an open source solution: Saltcorn ( https://saltcorn.com ). Works against PostgreSQL and sqlite, with a drag and drop view builder and extensions for Kanban boards, maps, statistics, stripe subscriptions etc.
Thanks for mentioning this - new to me, and looks very, very promising. There goes my weekend... ;-)
Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#14I keep a list of the best of the best for these tools, aimed at the absolute non-tech end of the market
https://nocode.tech/category/internal-tools https://www.nocode.tech/category/app-builders
Lists include both SaaS and self-hosted options
Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#15If you switch to PostgreSQL, then PostgREST would be a nice solution. It turns your DB into a webserver with REST API for data interaction. Add a simple frontend like you mentioned and it's done.
Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#16I'm a founder of Appsmith that has already been mentioned here. It's an open source project to help you build CRUD UI on top on any database(MySQL, Postgres included) or API. We give UI components to create forms, charts, tables, etc. GitHub link: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
I was just going to mention Appsmith. Great tool!
Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#17Someone mentioned https://directus.io/ to me for this use case the other day. I've not used it, but it looks good. Open source and self hostable or SaaS.
This looks great, I need to build a customer request management system for our construction company, it's basically a CRUD and this looks like a perfect fit.
Thanks for sharing.
Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#18Not open source, but Ninox is really great once you get used to their UI paradigm that is a little bit different from what everybody else is doing. https://ninox.com/de
Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#19Someone mentioned https://directus.io/ to me for this use case the other day. I've not used it, but it looks good. Open source and self hostable or SaaS.
This looks great, I need to build a customer request management system for our construction company, it's basically a CRUD and this looks like a perfect fit. Thanks for sharing.
I'm interested to hear how you find it - I looked at it to manage some parts of an already existing system (postgres + sqlalchemy) and there are some quirks.
It doesn't automatically detect foreign keys and make the fields for them correctly. Furthermore, it seems like they don't even use foreign keys for the models created through their UI - I checked the github issues, it seems like all of this is planned but work on it seems to have just started.
Re: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
#20PowerApps [0] is a surprisingly powerful and flexible low code app builder (that can connect to MySQL, etc.)