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Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 wa…
Is there a similar point-and-click tool which can output Django models with all the relationship fields wired up correctly? Getting as far as you can modelling a new problem domain with just models.py and the Django admin is pretty fun.
There is https://apibakery.com on the basic end of the scale
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#213I'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…
Terrific list. Thanks for putting it together. You might update the AppMaker link. Unsurprisingly, Google has abandoned it, and it will shut down in Jan 2021. https://developers.google.com/appmaker
You might also add Quickbase and Knack to that same section. They are pretty popular.
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#214I'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…
since I am kinda sold on strapi, I am surprised to not see it in the list. I will check out if frameworks you found are better, see if it is worthy (I have no affiliation in strapi)
edit: one more - quasar, that is vue with lot of wiring already done.
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#216StackOverflow. Have a problem? Google it, then cut and paste the solution from StackOverflow. No need to understand programming or computers, and half the software you encounter uses it.
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#217We were sick of writing spreadsheet importers for most apps we have ever built. We just wanted to write the endpoint to ingest the data into our system. So we have been writing a CSV importer as a service. You can use it to import spreadsheet data into your app or other apps similar to Zapier. We do integrate with Zapier too.
If you try it out let me know what you think: https://www.easycsv.io/
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#218Hasura 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…
Does hasura supports database replication? When I looked last time, it wasn't. Also I feel these tools are not enterprise ready, IMHO.
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#219I'm gonna say Godot engine. Yeah, I'm seriously, the "game" engine. https://godotengine.org/ I was playing with it last month and whipped up a simple "toy" (calling it a "game" is too much) that lets me fly a little space ship around a little asteroid field. It took about a day to get it working enough to be fun. (I polished it up a little after that, and maybe one day I'll add some actual game play, mine an asteroid…
Side note: a very simple 2D game building system with Lua:
https://love2d.org/ - LÖVE is an awesome framework for building 2d games (and it's cross platform!).
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
#220Hasura 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…
Does hasura supports database replication? When I looked last time, it wasn't. Also I feel these tools are not enterprise ready, IMHO.
(I'm from Hasura)
Hasura connects to a read replicas and manages connection pooling across the database cluster.
Hasura itself is stateless so it doesn't do the database replication.