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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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Post by maxcan »

mycall wrote: post #78
gavinray wrote: post #15

Hasura by far, lets you point-and-click build your database and table relationships with a web dashboard and autogenerates a full GraphQL CRUD API with permissions you can configure and JWT/webhook auth baked-in. https://hasura.io/ I've been able to build in a weekend no-code what would've taken my team weeks or months to build by hand, even with something as productive as Rails. It automates the boring stuff and you…

> Hasura Pro Pricing: Talk to Us I'm always scared to call when I hear this.

Honestly, if price is an issue to you, you likely don’t need their enterprise offerings (yes I know there are exceptions).

The idea is for most users to be on the free / open tier and then monetize off of enterprise users with specific demands and less cash sensitivity.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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Post by goldcaddy77 »

simplify wrote: post #95
gavinray wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one of the most common misconceptions about Hasura. While it CAN expose an existing Postgres database, where it really shines (in my opinion) is when you're starting a brand new product. Because you can create your whole database and all the relationships, foreign-keys, triggers, permissions, etc through the web console UI incredibly rapidly. And yeah, it takes care of all CRUD and provides an aggregation/stat…

I really want to like Hasura, but very quickly you'll run into limitations of its permission system. Especially when dealing with logic across relationships. If only Hasura supported some king of Prolog / Datalog instead of their ad-hoc JSON language, then you'd be able to write nearly any possible use cases. Until then, I'll stick to building and maintaining my own backends... manually :(

If you’re looking for more flexibility than Hasura, I’d recommend you try out Warthog (disclaimer: I’m the author). It’s a Node Library that uses TypeORM, TypeGraphQL and some extra magic under the hood to let you spin up APIs very quickly (auto-generated schema), but you also have access to the bare metal code. You can set up CRUD essentially free, but it provides you a slew of ways to handle more complex scenarios.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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Post by pricci »

cpursley wrote: post #62
gavinray wrote: post #15

Hasura by far, lets you point-and-click build your database and table relationships with a web dashboard and autogenerates a full GraphQL CRUD API with permissions you can configure and JWT/webhook auth baked-in. https://hasura.io/ I've been able to build in a weekend no-code what would've taken my team weeks or months to build by hand, even with something as productive as Rails. It automates the boring stuff and you…

This is similar to what we're doing! Hasura + AutoCRUD framework + Metabase is a great stack for putting together a solid business application in no time. Combine Hasura (automatic GraphQL on top of PostgreSQL) with React Admin (low code CRUD apps similar to Forest) and you can build an entire back office admin suite or form app (API endpoints and admin front end) in a matter of hours. This adaptor connects react-adm…

Hey, thanks for the adapter. It works great! I'm using it in 2 small projects.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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Post by pricci »

dvasdekis wrote: post #102
cpursley wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is similar to what we're doing! Hasura + AutoCRUD framework + Metabase is a great stack for putting together a solid business application in no time. Combine Hasura (automatic GraphQL on top of PostgreSQL) with React Admin (low code CRUD apps similar to Forest) and you can build an entire back office admin suite or form app (API endpoints and admin front end) in a matter of hours. This adaptor connects react-adm…

I've taken your stack one step further, with a completely dockerised solution that uses Firebase as an authentication solution (authentication is missing from the current low-code example). It can be run locally or on a cloud provider that runs containers (e.g. GCP Compute Create-With-Container). See here: https://github.com/dvasdekis/react-admin-hasura-firebase/ Thanks to gavinray also for the help with this!

Thanks for this! I will add it to a project.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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Post by kabacha »

gitgud wrote: post #138
crabl wrote: post #50

Being 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.

in b4 all of HN crying posts about dead propriatory software and blogs of how to hack and partially import stuff to "new replacement startup" that is also locked in. When will people finally learn that locked in languages are a very costly mistake.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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Post by jppope »

Though not in the visual coding platform space...

The Serverless Framework have been an amazing low code experience for me.

Building REST APIs is crazy simple... 90% of it is writing config files. Another plus is that you really don't need to use web frameworks - you can just write your business logic.

anyway thats my $0.02

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