> Since low-coding is super trendy these days
Is it? I'm pretty certain I am not the only programmer who has never heard the term before. What is this super trendy thing?
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?
#172Hasura 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
Check out https://internal.io/. We're big fans of Hasura and work really well with it. Full disclosure, I'm one of the founders.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I really need a self hosted solution. Ideally it would have an LDAP adapter so it could get login info from our internal active directory. If I were building public facing apps Auth0 would be perfect. I don't think I'd be allowed to entrust users passwords to an external entity, despite the fact that they would probably do a much better job than I would at securing them. Also despite the fact that we trust every othe…
Fully understand - I would want something self-hosted in this case as well.
Firebase does allow you to integrate with other OAuth providers (e.g. Google/Facebook/Linkedin etc.), so you could perform some kind of validation on the google account, ensuring it comes from your company's mail domain? Just a thought.
Set up of these security schemes is not easy (took me a shamefully long time to get Firebase working with React-Admin and Hasura). I'd personally try and get a SaaS provider to work within your company's constraints before trying to roll your own.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 cod…
Hmmm really? Can you point at some information so I can learn quickly how to add a non-trivial extension? Genuinely would love to, but not sure where to start!
The way I see it, in Emacs it's less an "extension" and more of "I have this problem, how do I solve it now using elisp?".
So basically, your develop the solution bottom up. You can pretty much write an elisp function anywhere in emacs (in the very file you are editing, in the already open scratch buffer, in an elisp popup shell) and test the function incrementally. Also, the extensive in-built help system lets you very quickly lookup functions that you need.
Once you have something that solves your current problem, you can save it, if you want. Over time your custom collection of functions improves and then you decide if something there needs to be generalized or made into a package.
Obviously this needs some basic elisp knowledge and then just practice over time.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#175> Since low-coding is super trendy these days Is it? I'm pretty certain I am not the only programmer who has never heard the term before. What is this super trendy thing?
I also had to look it up. It appears to sort of be a new word for the (often tried earlier) concept of visual/gui/config based programming, without requiring traditional programming languages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-code_development_platfor...
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#176Hasura 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 have this feeling that hasura is still "onboarding". I had this experience with Netlify that offered some amazing deals and waited for everyone to onboard then started hammering them hard. I got up to $150/mo really fast for a static site that receives only about 900req/day. Every single month they were limiting more features and shifting them on to some "premium" offering that was used to lock you in. I'm still waiting on Hasura to do the same. Forest admin is no different. I'm always tempted to try them out for new projects but I always find myself back to Django, it will be here 10 years down the road.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#177Just wanted to throw in https://apify.com/. I'm using it to monitor changes on different websites and automatically send an email to me with screenshots of the updated content. But you can do all sorts of other useful things with it!
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#178Here are my favorite apps for low-coding apps:
- https://userpilot.com/ -- Great for onboarding (no more JS needed)
- Weblow.com - to create a website
- retool.com for internal apps
- Integromat for integrations on steroids
- Firebase
- https://bubble.io/ for MVP creation
(full disclosure: I manage userpilot)
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#179Retool ( https://retool.com ) might be what you're looking for on the front-end. It's built for engineers, so it abstracts away a lot of the boiler-plate stuff (e.g. fetching data from an API, showing errors if it fails, showing a loading indicator on the button when the REST API is in progress, etc.). But you still write code for the custom bits (e.g. if you want to hide a component for certain users). Here's a 3 mi…
Is Retool related to Airtable at all? - or do they just follow a similat style guide?
Nope, but you can integrate them together with Zapier
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that Discord seems like an odd place to find this information, but I'm curious to know what prevents you from creating a Discord account?
You can’t create a Discord account without doxxing yourself. Signups not from an IP that discloses your location demand a dozen captchas and a telephone number. Using a burner number is not supported, and your carrier number is reversible to name/address/location just as your IP is. more info: https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-c...
The main issue with this viewpoint and your (arguably sensationalist) article is that it just finger points & blatantly ignores the reason those protections are in place.
The number of people that consider Discord part of their threat model or an actual privacy risk is incredibly tiny compared to the number of users that get inconvenience by mass bot raids & people bypassing IP bans.
I help manage a medium-sized Discord guild and we were randomly targeted by a bot raid whereby ~100 bots joined in the span of 1 minute and proceeding to spam various channels and the DMs of our users. Enabling Discord's requirement for a verified phone number stopped the raid in its tracks and allowed us to clean up without further issue.
In the same way, Discord's automatic content scanning is designed to protect the large percentage of minors on the platform & proactively deal with potentially exploitative material + guilds (per https://blog.discordapp.com/discord-transparency-report-apri...)
Removing these features & restrictions in order to appease your extreme edge-case privacy views does not help the average Discord user in the slightest.