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

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Post by bitwize »

Lisp.

So-called "low code" tools involve code, you just write it by rat-wrestling instead of typing. And good luck using those tools effectively for problems their designers didn't anticipate.

With Lisp, you write less code and it's easier and more fun to write.

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Post by paulgb »

Google Sheets can be surprisingly handy as a UI for editing data. For example, I have a job on AWS that scrapes a handful of URLs and snapshots them. Instead of creating a database and hosting it somewhere, or hard-coding them, I put them in a spreadsheet that the AWS job reads at the beginning of every run.

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Post by monkpit »

kirubakaran wrote: post #9

Emacs. Not too much work to customize it these days. Just: M-x list-packages

Do packages really count? You could go on for a long time listing applications that have packages or plugins, but I think it misses the point of the question.

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Post by mahomedalid »

usrme wrote: post #7

I'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…

This. LogicApps it's a great low-coding tool that I enjoy as a developer.

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Post by welanes »

It depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

For building websites, Webflow is powerful (and allows for fine-tuning).

Among utilities, Parabola (a kind of no-code extract, transform, load tool) is very neat.

For getting data/creating APIs without having to code I've built Simplescraper - https://simplescraper.io.

Currently working on an integration for Airtable that allows you to create a dynamic CMS using any data source, without code. Hopefully useful to non-dev and lazy-dev alike.

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Post by mmcgaha »

Pentaho Data Integration is an ETL tool that I have been using it for the last 11 years or so. The main use is for loading a data warehouse. I also use it for exception reporting and dumping some analytic data to excel.

https://community.hitachivantara.com/s/article/data-integrat...

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Post by dmortin »

monkpit wrote: post #24
kirubakaran wrote: post #9

Emacs. Not too much work to customize it these days. Just: M-x list-packages

Do packages really count? You could go on for a long time listing applications that have packages or plugins, but I think it misses the point of the question.

Actually, Emacs is a low coding editing environment, because the strength of emacs is that once you can program it it's extremely easy to write extensions for it, even for one off tasks, because it's so quick and easy.

Compared to this writing extensions for vscode, for example, is much more convoluted. You wouldn't create a new vscode extension for a 1 hour task, while with emacs it's trivial to write some small code which can help you with your current task. I often do.

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Post by khashnejad »

DevScore is a lowcode platform for many use-cases. It gives distributed, event-based nodejs runtime, database, webhooks, cronjobs, and nice integrated library of helper functions to practically do anything you want without worrying about boring stuff. Try it out and let me know if you have any question.

https://devscore.com https://github.com/devscoreInc https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClgE-uFdQIJ2GWhaNjz6WRw/vid...

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