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

Post by rattray » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

micimize wrote: post #155

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'm a big user of graphile - they've also got a pretty good starter boilerplate with auth, etc baked in: https://github.com/graphile/starter Have you tried it / do you have comparison points? I only poked around in Hasura a bit before deciding it wasn't worth the switching cost atm, but the out of the box upserts are compelling to me.

Post by ollerac » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

ravikapoor101 wrote: post #214

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…

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.

Post by ollerac » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

blkboxdev wrote: post #217

We 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/

Post by ollerac » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

welanes wrote: post #27

It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. For building websites, Webflow is powerful (and allows for fine-tuning). Among utilities, Parabola (a kind of no-code extract, transform, load tool) is very neat. For getting data/creating APIs without having to code I've built Simplescraper - https://simplescraper.io . Currently working on an integration for Airtable that allows you to create a dynamic CMS using any da…

Post by rchaud » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 4:47 PM UTC

tdy721 wrote: post #3

Flash was really cool! I haven’t really seen anything that lives up to what I was able to accomplish way back in the day with Macromedia Flash. Then again, that’s not really low code.