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

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Post by bravura »

gavinray wrote: post #64
jimbokun wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's one of the most common misconceptions about Hasura. While it CAN expose an existing Postgres database, where it really shines (in my opinion) is when you're starting a brand new product. Because you can create your whole database and all the relationships, foreign-keys, triggers, permissions, etc through the web console UI incredibly rapidly. And yeah, it takes care of all CRUD and provides an aggregation/stat…

Sorry, I'm a bit new to GraphQL. Can you explain why this is more existing than starting a brand new product using plain PostgreSQL?

Can you also explain how locked in you are, if you decide you want to migrate away from Hasura, or in general want more flexibility that the use-case of Hasura + ForestryAdmin?

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

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Post by sgc »

dahdum wrote: post #35
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…

I can't agree more about Hasura, I made the jump to GraphQL for my current application and it's been a dream. Their documentation is excellent, helping me get setup with auth0 jwt auth and apollo client despite being new to both. Metabase was a game changer in my last company, it was so nice to just be able to drop a 50+ line custom SQL query in there with parameters and let users pull what they want. We'd also setup…

Is there something that could plug into this stack which would allow for easy integration of a lucene / solr instance as a data source?

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

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Post by ollerac »

I'm writing my own low code framework[0], so I'm really interested in this space. Over the past five weeks, I've been compiling a list of the most interesting software in this space.

Here's an early draft:

"The Low-Code Ecosystem" https://blog.remaketheweb.com/low-code-frameworks-for-buildi...

I think there's _a ton_ of amazing tools being developed in this area right now. I'm looking forward to seeing how things develop!

[0] Remake (https://remaketheweb.com/) — Build web apps with only HTML.

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

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Post by freeqaz »

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.

I just made an example for how to do this using Refinery (most of the pieces were off the shelf using "saved blocks").

https://app.refinery.io/import?q=9lvohdvqd50g

This project will:

- Run every hour (via timer)

- Grab URLs from a Google Sheet

- Go screenshot all of the URLs

- Write each screenshot to an S3 bucket

- Email you at the end after the jobs finish

There is more I could do with this (like trigger an email if something fails, etc). But at least does what you describe above in a (hopefully) succinct fashion!

Also, shill alert as I'm an author for this service (but this was a fun project to build over a few minutes, so thank you).

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

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Post by scribu »

ollerac wrote: post #123

I'm writing my own low code framework[0], so I'm really interested in this space. Over the past five weeks, I've been compiling a list of the most interesting software in this space. Here's an early draft: "The Low-Code Ecosystem" https://blog.remaketheweb.com/low-code-frameworks-for-buildi... I think there's _a ton_ of amazing tools being developed in this area right now. I'm looking forward to seeing how things dev…

Pretty comprehensive list. Thanks for sharing!

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

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Post by bravura »

makeee wrote: post #21

I'm building something for lazy React devs: https://divjoy.com On the no-code side I really like http://carrd.co

Here's some feedback, from a backend dev + entrepreneur who hasn't grokked React yet:

a) thank you for carrd.co, it's something I've been looking for

b) I don't exactly understand what is the use-case for divjoy. It looks like it helps me ship a landing page really quickly? Why do you need React integrated with this?

Perhaps there's a use case for React devs that I am missing?

I can tell you that what I want is carrd.co, but without vendor lock-in. I want carrd right now to launch a beautiful email-collection landing page and do market validation. However, if the market test is successful and I want to transform the homepage into a "sign up now", I don't feel like I can do that with carrd and I would need to hire someone to re-create a landing page with a similar look and feel. So I'd like a "carrd" without the vendor lockin.

[edit: More on carrd, according to their TOS they get unlimited rights to all your content?!?!]

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

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Post by kwikiel »

I've created a tool to flatten and turn any JSON api endpoint into time series chart without any configuration ( it just works ) - I was looking for something similar in the market but never found anything that allowed for 0 config

https://temporals.herokuapp.com/

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

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Post by dvasdekis »

xupybd wrote: post #75
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…

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.

I've set up a working example with Firebase Authentication (which is admittedly 'something like Auth0') here: https://github.com/dvasdekis/react-admin-hasura-firebase/

Firebase does provide unlimited password logins for free, which mitigated my personal concerns about Auth0. The advantages of a SaaS auth provider compared to a roll-your-own have been documented elsewhere, and I personally found them compelling.

What are the reasons you 'don't like' something like Auth0?

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

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Post by telekid »

simplify wrote: post #95
gavinray wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one of the most common misconceptions about Hasura. While it CAN expose an existing Postgres database, where it really shines (in my opinion) is when you're starting a brand new product. Because you can create your whole database and all the relationships, foreign-keys, triggers, permissions, etc through the web console UI incredibly rapidly. And yeah, it takes care of all CRUD and provides an aggregation/stat…

I really want to like Hasura, but very quickly you'll run into limitations of its permission system. Especially when dealing with logic across relationships. If only Hasura supported some king of Prolog / Datalog instead of their ad-hoc JSON language, then you'd be able to write nearly any possible use cases. Until then, I'll stick to building and maintaining my own backends... manually :(

Are you aware of http://www.hyperfiddle.net/?

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

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Post by keithwhor »

If you haven't checked out Autocode [0], I recommend you give it a whirl! It's an IDE with some UI components similar to Zapier that auto-generates actual code for you. Just launched a month or so ago so it's pretty new, but we've been working on it for a while! Was on Front Page HN when we launched. [1]

Disclaimer: am founder. :)

[0] https://autocode.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306996

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