Show HN: Total.js – Low-code development (Node-RED alternative)
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#2Total.js Flow is an excellent and modern Visual Programming Interface for low-code development. It's a viable alternative to Node-RED and fully open-source under the MIT license.
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#3When I see low-code, I find myself looking for the Visual Basic of Web. If I could drag and drop a few pre-made controls (including a database control), double click to handle a few events, and have a CRUD app, I would be thrilled.
Unfortunately, I still have not found that yet.
Re: Show HN: Total.js – Low-code development (Node-RED alternative)
#4Total.js Flow is an excellent and modern Visual Programming Interface for low-code development. It's a viable alternative to Node-RED and fully open-source under the MIT license.
What differentiates Total.js Flow from Node-RED? Were there frustrations with Node-RED that it was felt were best solved starting over?
At a glance it looks good, but unclear why one would switch.
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#5When I see low-code, I find myself looking for the Visual Basic of Web. If I could drag and drop a few pre-made controls (including a database control), double click to handle a few events, and have a CRUD app, I would be thrilled. Unfortunately, I still have not found that yet.
That's possible with Total.js. We offer a lot of open source apps like Flow, UI Builder (it will be released soon officially - missing only the website) and Total DB (it will be released this week - missing only the website).
Total DB: https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb UI Builder: https://uibuilder.totaljs.com/
We're preparing tutorials and you will see that it's possible to do it very easily :)
Re: Show HN: Total.js – Low-code development (Node-RED alternative)
#6Total.js Flow is an excellent and modern Visual Programming Interface for low-code development. It's a viable alternative to Node-RED and fully open-source under the MIT license.
What differentiates Total.js Flow from Node-RED? Were there frustrations with Node-RED that it was felt were best solved starting over? At a glance it looks good, but unclear why one would switch.
- multithreading
- better design collected from our Web components https://componentator.com
- without third party dependencies (in the core)
- online chat support with authors and contributors (https://t.me/totaljs)
- a lot of (open source) helpers like UI Builder - https://uibuilder.totaljs.com (released soon), Total DB - https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb (released soon), OpenMail, OpenTemplates, OpenAuth, etc..
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#7When I see low-code, I find myself looking for the Visual Basic of Web. If I could drag and drop a few pre-made controls (including a database control), double click to handle a few events, and have a CRUD app, I would be thrilled. Unfortunately, I still have not found that yet.
That's possible with Total.js. We offer a lot of open source apps like Flow, UI Builder (it will be released soon officially - missing only the website) and Total DB (it will be released this week - missing only the website). Total DB: https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb UI Builder: https://uibuilder.totaljs.com/ We're preparing tutorials and you will see that it's possible to do it very easily :)
Nice work. Is there an overview of which components are oss and which are not?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's possible with Total.js. We offer a lot of open source apps like Flow, UI Builder (it will be released soon officially - missing only the website) and Total DB (it will be released this week - missing only the website). Total DB: https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb UI Builder: https://uibuilder.totaljs.com/ We're preparing tutorials and you will see that it's possible to do it very easily :)
Nice work. Is there an overview of which components are oss and which are not?
All components are open source under MIT license: https://github.com/totaljs/flowstreamcomponents/tree/main/co...
Of course, we have some premium components (under the MIT license) that are hidden. Also you can create Flow components directly in Flow, that's amazing!
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#9When I see low-code, I find myself looking for the Visual Basic of Web. If I could drag and drop a few pre-made controls (including a database control), double click to handle a few events, and have a CRUD app, I would be thrilled. Unfortunately, I still have not found that yet.
Coming from Delphi, I always think the same...
You could check Budibase, I build a simple customer portal for one of our customers with it.
Now I build a "real" project with Supabase for the backend and Vue.js + Quasar for the frontend. And that comes damn near this vision. Only a dragn'n'drop GUI editor is missing, but with the near zero reload-times of modern vue.js with Vite editing the GUI in code comes near.
There are of course several "frameworks" for Delphi, that offer "building webapps with Delphi and then compiling it to JS & Javascript, but I decided not to go into this direction, because Delphi paradigmns are no good fit for the web and I doubt I'm gonna find anyone else if I'm going to need more manpower.
For Delphi:
* TMS Webcore https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmswebcore.asp
* uniGUI http://www.unigui.com/
Delphi Inspired Pascal IDE for the Web:
* Elevate Web Builder https://www.elevatesoft.com/home
* Quartex Pascal https://quartexdeveloper.com/
* Smart Mobile Studio https://smartmobilestudio.com/
Re: Show HN: Total.js – Low-code development (Node-RED alternative)
#10Talk to ChatGPT within Total.js Flow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54ubAhheyA