I know that Oracle is not liked on HN, but Oracle XE with Oracle Apex is a great low code solution to create web apps for internal and external users. Over the course of a decade, I have built hundreds of web applications in corporate enviroments using Oracle XE and Oracle APEX.
Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
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#132I've found that Azure's Logic App Service has been shockingly useful to me! The hard prerequisite is that you are within the Azure ecosystem, but using Logic Apps instead of defaulting to writing PowerShell for Function Apps significantly decreased development time, has increased the ease with which I can debug workflows, and when you're on the free tier (with both aforementioned flavors), then Logic Apps still reign…
We are in the middle of a year-long project to 'rewrite' all of our ESB glue/pipelines from MuleSoft to the Azure platform. We've been using Azure for a while now for almost all hosting. But our ESB had still been in Mule, because as sort of the vital arteries of our entire enterprise, it's hard to seriously consider completely reimplementing them -- especially since we're only about 3 years out from implementing Mul…
Hey Gene, share a link to this post with your MuleSoft Customer Success Manager. Salesforce's acquisition made some changes to how we work with Not for Profit customers. If you're in my region, I look forward to seeing if we can help. Overhauling Enterprise integration for cost alone sucks, especially since it seems like you're happy with product.
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#133I'm building something for lazy React devs: https://divjoy.com On the no-code side I really like http://carrd.co
Here's some feedback, from a backend dev + entrepreneur who hasn't grokked React yet: a) thank you for carrd.co, it's something I've been looking for b) I don't exactly understand what is the use-case for divjoy. It looks like it helps me ship a landing page really quickly? Why do you need React integrated with this? Perhaps there's a use case for React devs that I am missing? I can tell you that what I want is carrd…
I appreciate the feedback! The current Divjoy is basically landing page + auth flow + a little extra boilerplate and structure that helps as you start building your web app. Even super common things, like routing, aren't included out of the box with React, so there's a surprising amount of things a tool like Divjoy can setup for you. I need to do a better job of highlighting those things.
That said, this is a very early version. I'm launching database integration next week (data fetching logic/caching, full REST API, etc) and then Stripe integration shortly after that. So in not too long, you'll be able to export a fully functioning SaaS app.
So I'd like a "carrd" without the vendor lockin
Long-term this is exactly what I'm going for. Build something simple inside the Divjoy editor, host it with me, export your codebase at any time for full flexibility. You never need to worry about lockin.
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#134As a Python developer moving into web development, I've really enjoyed using Plotly's Dash.
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#135MDA+DDD+BPM=future:
At LV 1871 one of the most important strategical goals is the enabling of business specialists to participate in software development.https://medium.com/@davidibl/dmn-manager-ed2afa73b221
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#136I don't know if this counts but I really enjoy Notion [0]. We use it at work for developer guides but I also have a personal workspace where I keep notes and bookmarks, track my progress on goals and projects, and upload files for quick access across devices. Notion isn't perfect - I'd love recurring calendar events and overall performance could be improved - but for me it's so useful. I can open it from any device and start writing (think Simplenote) or build "micro apps" that perform some basic software function.
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#137awk has saved my backside on more occasions than I can remember.
pcregrep is another surprisingly powerful command line tool. Very useful for extracting json with nested data structures from logs. GNU grep is more or less as powerful via the -P (pcre) flag.
Another underrated command line tool is the venerable POSIX look command. It is able to perform binary searches on lexically sorted files. Very useful for quickly zeroing in on slices of interest from ginormous log files where each line is prefixed with an ISO timestamp.
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#138Being a part of the Dark beta ( https://darklang.com ) has been incredible. It makes setting up a simple backend with persistent storage a breeze.
Sure darklang improves productivity. But the cost of that productivity is absolute vendor lock-in...
Darklang is a proprietary framework where the ENTIRE stack... even the IDE! is controlled by a specific company. Just be weary of this, when depending on it.
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#139Retool ( https://retool.com ) might be what you're looking for on the front-end. It's built for engineers, so it abstracts away a lot of the boiler-plate stuff (e.g. fetching data from an API, showing errors if it fails, showing a loading indicator on the button when the REST API is in progress, etc.). But you still write code for the custom bits (e.g. if you want to hide a component for certain users). Here's a 3 mi…
Low code has always been a thing :-). They used to call it something like ... "Use a library".
Java is lo-code compared to say C++ which was the main option for enterprise software before Java came out. You had VBA in Excel for decades.
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#140stacker.app has impressed me. It's by the same team that built (and recently posted) Toga (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746663).