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Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

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Re: Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

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Post by speps »

It seems to be missing simple authentication. I really like how Azure Web Apps[0] do it for example. Then you could use that to authenticate with some external storage.

The idea of websites being just a way to access and modify data that you own entirely (private Git or else) is really neat.

EDIT: actually they do handle authentication but it's GitHub only. Also they seem to support REST APIs (from a custom backend) but no demos or example of that.

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-app-servic...

Re: Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

#13

Post by desireco42 »

throwaway2016a wrote: post #10
desireco42 wrote: post #9

I don't understand why there is such negativity about this. They state it is not perfect and it is work in progress near the bottom of intro. What I like about this, is that it allows quickly to make simpler sites that can be edited. I don't want to program upload images ever again, or edit fields. Why do this?! Anyhow, storage seems to be confusing some of you, they explain/document that here http://mavo.io/docs/sto…

> I don't understand why there is such negativity about this. I'm not sure I'm reading the same comments as you. None of the ones I read seem overtly negative. Mine is the closest to negative and I explicitly said that I'm just trying to understand not criticize. You may be reading into them too much. For example, the person saying it is like Angular 1.0 could be negative or very positive depending on your view of An…

They are negative, that doesn't make you a bad person. All good.

Re: Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

#15

Post by _uhtu »

After working with React/Inferno and some of the other virtual dom frameworks, I simply can never go back to templating languages baked into HTML. While this seems like a nice idea, I don't think I could use it for that reason. It's incredibly limiting to try to write your code into HTML with a small programming language built in. You spend more time fighting the embedded language then making content.

Re: Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

#16

Post by mgiannopoulos »

speps wrote: post #11

It seems to be missing simple authentication. I really like how Azure Web Apps[0] do it for example. Then you could use that to authenticate with some external storage. The idea of websites being just a way to access and modify data that you own entirely (private Git or else) is really neat. EDIT: actually they do handle authentication but it's GitHub only. Also they seem to support REST APIs (from a custom backend)…

Dropbox is supported as well. https://mavo.io/docs/storage/

Re: Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

#17

Post by kawera »

mgiannopoulos wrote: post #16
speps wrote: post #11

It seems to be missing simple authentication. I really like how Azure Web Apps[0] do it for example. Then you could use that to authenticate with some external storage. The idea of websites being just a way to access and modify data that you own entirely (private Git or else) is really neat. EDIT: actually they do handle authentication but it's GitHub only. Also they seem to support REST APIs (from a custom backend)…

Dropbox is supported as well. https://mavo.io/docs/storage/

And Firebase too: https://plugins.mavo.io/plugin/firebase

Re: Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

#18

Post by WhiteOwlLion »

I could see this being useful for individual or small businesses that don't have a tech savvy or IT staff. The business pays a web designer to set up the site. The content can then get updated over time. WordPress sometimes is overkill and something simpler is definitely a plus.

Re: Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

#19

Post by extra88 »

bshimmin wrote: post #8

without a single line of programming code A bold statement that doesn't really seem to be supported by:

I assumed the claim was based on differentiating a markup language from programming languages. HTML (and CSS) is code, but not programming code.

Re: Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

#20

Post by monkmartinez »

desireco42 wrote: post #9

I don't understand why there is such negativity about this. They state it is not perfect and it is work in progress near the bottom of intro. What I like about this, is that it allows quickly to make simpler sites that can be edited. I don't want to program upload images ever again, or edit fields. Why do this?! Anyhow, storage seems to be confusing some of you, they explain/document that here http://mavo.io/docs/sto…

It is neat for sure, so are using appventor (blocks to build android apps)[1] and other shortcuts to build websites and apps.

The problem is that it says simple, while talking about Git for goodness sakes; commit permissions and such. It says no code. I disagree... you need to know HTML basics to even comprehend the Mavo way.

Why not just make a vanilla HTML page if that is all you need? HTML is not hard... and how is this moving us past CRUD?

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