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

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Post by dvasdekis »

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…

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!

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

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Post by simonw »

ionwake wrote: post #99
simonw wrote: post #47

I'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…

Looks good - is there any way to get world stats?

The Johns Hopkins data includes reports from countries other than the USA: https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid/johns_hopkins_csse_dai...

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

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Post by jlavera »

In a previous company we wanted to give more independence to our support and marketing teams. They idea is that instead of they asking us to do some trivial tasks like fetching some data from the DB or sending a request to an API, they could do that by them selves, parting from what we (the developers) build for them.

The idea started from there and now includes more flexibility in terms of integrations, customization of data displays, and the ability to compose actions.

I've been working for a few months now in this project and I'm hoping to publish the first beta version here soon. If this sounds interesting or useful to you or someone else, I'll be happy to hear about it, so feel free to DM me here or contact me at hello.oneadm@gmail.com

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

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Post by paulgb »

dragonwriter wrote: post #91
valtism wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't you forced to use Google Apps Script to interact with Sheets? I remember being forced to use it for interacting with Google Forms API.

> Aren't you forced to use Google Apps Script to interact with Sheets? No, it has a REST API; you need Apps Script if you want automation within Sheets, but you can interact with Sheets without it.

That's the best part, I don't even use an API! I just go File -> Publish to the web, then select "Comma-separated values" instead of "Web page" from the dropdown. Then I use Pandas to read the CSV in Python.

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

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Post by paulgb »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #54
paulgb wrote: post #23

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.

How do you get around the number of fetch limitations?

I'm hitting at a rate of 2/hour, it hasn't been an issue.

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

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Post by verdverm »

olalonde wrote: post #56
verdverm wrote: post #52

We're building an open source code generator for developers. Used to call it low-code, but that's not such a popular term with devs https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

CMD-F " ", no result, close. You need a list of supported languages in that README.

It's early, all languages are supported if you write a generator for something.

We are mainly focused on Golang, backend, and DevOps. There are a number of non-language things we want to be generating for many of out projects first. Python for DataSci and ML, or JS for frontends, will be the next we look at.

The floodgates are open for anyone now to create their own generators for anything.

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