Surprised nobody mentioned bubble.io yet.
Perhaps it steps out of low code into zero code. But you do end up needing to a developer to get far in bubble.io
Source of insight: building a few webapps for people in it.
Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#72Hasura 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…
What are you using to create a customer facing UI/frontend? It sounds like Hasura is just for backend
Whatever you like. Depending on the nature of your work, you may be a startup or working for an organization that has mockups and design assets for what your frontend needs to look like.
In that case, you'd just build the front-end as usual, but use Hasura to bang out your whole backend and then autogenerate the type-safe query components with graphql-code-generator.
When I do products myself, I typically pick a pre-made template/UI kit (Vue is my preference) and then just modify it from there to suit my needs.
TailwindUI also looks really nice and I've seen several people build beautiful looking UI's with it for smaller SaaS products in a few days (though given that they're familiar with TailwindCSS and have a knack for this type of thing already):
Hasura also has a lot of community examples for different front-ends. Ranging from web apps in React/Vue/Angular/Elm to mobile clients in Flutter or Android/iOS:
They have several dozen example apps built in all sorts of tech here:
https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/communi...
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#73Odoo https://www.odoo.com for list/form CRUD apps. Includes many ERP plugins but is a nice platform for your own apps. Fast client with powerful search tool. Just Python and XML declarative UI gets you working sites. FOS for local hosting and they do SAAS as their main ERP business.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#74I like Integromat ( https://www.integromat.com ), it's Zapier on steroids, hitting the sweet spot for developers. The minor downside is that it can take time to get used to the whole layout and the concept of connecting apps in their editor.
Came here to +1 Integromat. It's definitely my go to for stock-standard automation. I once had a pipeline that would take Trello tickets with movie names, search them using (I think) TMDB and apply a synopsis + posters to the Trello ticket upon ticket creation!
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#75Hasura 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…
What are you using for your authentication adapter? I've been looking at picking up hasura but don't like the idea of using something like Auth0. So I've been hunting on the best tool for auth.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#76Hasura 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…
So hasura just exposes a Postgres database through GraphQL? That sounds kinda nifty, but does it then allow you to write custom code to add business logic? Glancing through the documentation, that part wasn't clear to me.
> does it then allow you to write custom code to add business logic
Yes! Like gavinray said, you can create HTTP services in any language of your choice. Hasura can then be configured to call HTTP endpoints when something changes in the DB. And your services can call Hasura anytime of course.
Remember that Hasura handles all the authorization for you, so there's no need to "proxy" requests made to it.
You end up writing very little compared to traditional frameworks.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#77Odoo https://www.odoo.com for list/form CRUD apps. Includes many ERP plugins but is a nice platform for your own apps. Fast client with powerful search tool. Just Python and XML declarative UI gets you working sites. FOS for local hosting and they do SAAS as their main ERP business.
Can you 'click together' CRUD apps with them though? Or you need to write XML? I did not check them for quite a while because everything that could've been 'no/lowcode drag & drop' was quite painful before.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#78Hasura 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.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#79Hasura 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…
We've [1] been fans of Hasura for some time -- it's a terrific piece of work.
When we were looking to extend our spreadsheet functions that read/write to/from databases, we considered integrating Hasura as a backend.
Commendable work by the Hasura team, I think really worth checking out what they've done.
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[1] Caveat: founder of MintData (https://mintdata.com) here, where we read/write from databases both directly via our flow editor and via spreadsheet functions which wrap things like Hasura.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#80I'm going to take this opportunity to promote my current principal project, Datasette. https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Datasette aims to reduce the gap between "I have some data" and "I have a useful JSON API for it" as much as possible. I think it does this really well. A timely example: the first version of this API for interacting with data about the COVID-19 pandemic took me just a few minutes to buil…
That is a powerful and concise outline of Datasette. I am working on an 8 week hackathon to build privacy first data solutions for the pandemic response. I am totally going to bring these examples to my session tonight for inspiration.
Very cool stuff! Thanks for sharing.
https://covidathon.devpost.com/
(Also love the Commodore reference)