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Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

Wow! Building this in 7 weeks is an incredible feat. I am the cofounder of Budibase - an open source alt to Retool, Mendix, Outsystems - and have been building it for around 2 years now. It's an incredible space and solves a burning problem for engineers, IT teams and business users. We're seeing major benefits of being open source, with the like of the NHS, Amazon, Deloitte and other major orgs choosing Budibase ove…

Thanks :)

Sure, would love to talk. Please send me an email so that we can schedule a call. ( navaneeth@tooljet.io )

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Congratulations on launch! Got a question. What do you think, is it possible to create internal tools as desktop apps that doesn't need servers/internet connection? I understand that your product is web based, so doesnt have such desktop-app feature. Can you recommend any no-code tool for building desktop based apps?

Budibase have a desktop app, not sure if the apps built can run without internet.

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

This looks very interesting... But no tests?

I'm not 100% happy with a project at work, where we're building out a jsonapi from a legacy rails app (part rewrite in-place, part move to react for front-end) - and after setting it up rswag with integration tests generating swagger schemas has been pretty nice. Not quite decided on what I think about activemodel::serializer... But it mostly works, without too much tweaking.

I've also adopted some ideas from:

https://github.com/guillaumebriday/jsonapi-scopes

For filtering/sorting - I think something like it should be in rails, really.

Rswag: https://github.com/rswag/rswag

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

This looks cool. What did you use to generate the documentation? https://docs.tooljet.io/docs/intro/

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

This looks very interesting... But no tests? I'm not 100% happy with a project at work, where we're building out a jsonapi from a legacy rails app (part rewrite in-place, part move to react for front-end) - and after setting it up rswag with integration tests generating swagger schemas has been pretty nice. Not quite decided on what I think about activemodel::serializer... But it mostly works, without too much tweaki…

Rswag looks cool, will try it out. There are tests for rails controllers and I have recently setup Cypress for component testing, will be focusing on tests the coming days.

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

Any ideas how you will differentiate yourself from Appsmith? (which looks similar but more developed)

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

This looks cool. What did you use to generate the documentation? https://docs.tooljet.io/docs/intro/

Looks like Docusaurus.

Check out Wappalyzer[0], it's an open source plug-in that tells you what technologies a website is using.

0. https://github.com/AliasIO/wappalyzer

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