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Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

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Post by FpUser »

segphault wrote: post #48

Installing the budibase server from npm pulls in over a thousand transitive dependencies. The npm install command reports that there are 39 known vulnerabilities in budibase's dependencies, including 9 that are classed "high" and 3 that are "critical" severity. The dependency graph includes a lot of crap, like packages containing trivial single-line functions like "is-object" and "is-stream". That's a very large atta…

>"The dependency graph includes a lot of crap, like packages containing trivial single-line functions like "is-object" and "is-stream".

I've never understood introducing this kind of dependencies. Depending on the legal conditions (usually favorable) one can simply extract the code they need from those packages and put it into some consolidated lib on their own.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

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Post by rmbyrro »

segphault wrote: post #48

Installing the budibase server from npm pulls in over a thousand transitive dependencies. The npm install command reports that there are 39 known vulnerabilities in budibase's dependencies, including 9 that are classed "high" and 3 that are "critical" severity. The dependency graph includes a lot of crap, like packages containing trivial single-line functions like "is-object" and "is-stream". That's a very large atta…

As it becomes more difficult to sustain tech choices related to Javascript, I wonder if the web industry will start to slowly divest from it and embrace decent technologies using Wasm, or if we're past the point of no hope to free ourselves from JS...

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

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Post by claytongulick »

gervwyk wrote: post #73
peterkelly wrote: post #55

I notice you've used two different programming languages to express application logic. A the high-level, you have automations, which are simple but look very limited in terms of capabilities (i haven't studied this part in great detail, but does its support things like looping, arbitrary conditional expressions, and an abstraction mechanism like user-defined functions?). At the low level, you have JavaScript to do fi…

I’ve read your abstract and it looks very interesting! I’ll be diving into the rest as I find time over the next few weeks thanks for sharing! And well done on this piece of work! It was interesting to me that you mentioned “functional programming as a model for data-oriented workflow languages”. I find it interesting because we are building Lowdefy [0] with which you can express feature rich apps in yaml / json, and…

> Mongodb aggression query language

I think this is my favorite typo/autocomplete of the year.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

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Post by claytongulick »

shogunpurple wrote: post #61
peterkelly wrote: post #55

I notice you've used two different programming languages to express application logic. A the high-level, you have automations, which are simple but look very limited in terms of capabilities (i haven't studied this part in great detail, but does its support things like looping, arbitrary conditional expressions, and an abstraction mechanism like user-defined functions?). At the low level, you have JavaScript to do fi…

Hi Peter, Automations are simple by design - the general automation steps are kept simple so they are easy to configure and create. We do however have a JS and a bash automation block. These blocks let you perform looping, iteration and logic using either JavaScript or bash. The reason we use JavaScript is simple. Most software engineers can write or at least express simple constructs in JavaScript. Being a C family…

I'm currently evaluating this for use at our healthcare company, and I can tell you that 100% of the reason why I'm even willing to consider a low code platform like this is because of the excellent job you've done with open source, and the fact that it fits in seamlessly to our existing nodejs and javascript environment and skill set.

Had you guys made the decision to create your own grammar/DSL, it's very unlikely that I would be seriously considering using it.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

shogunpurple wrote: post #7
blakesterz wrote: post #6

I don't have much to say other than your landing page actually told me exactly what I could do with Budibase, which seems to not happen as often as I would expect. I always check out new stuff like this, and I'm often left wondering how this new thing works. Nice work explaining what you do! It's not something I'd likely need, but at least I know what it does.

Thanks, really glad to hear that! If you do ever end up trying the platform, don't hesistate to reach out and ask questions on our github discussions forum.

hey. why don't you build some templates for accountants because this looks a nice thing for people like us but we aren't devs and coding financial statements from scratch, the db and all looks like a huge deal.

i can totally see using this but "handholding" would be great.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

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Post by foxbee »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #85
shogunpurple wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, really glad to hear that! If you do ever end up trying the platform, don't hesistate to reach out and ask questions on our github discussions forum.

hey. why don't you build some templates for accountants because this looks a nice thing for people like us but we aren't devs and coding financial statements from scratch, the db and all looks like a huge deal. i can totally see using this but "handholding" would be great.

Thanks for the suggestion. We recently created our first templates. Accountant templates are coming.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

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Post by shrimpx »

peterkelly wrote: post #55

I notice you've used two different programming languages to express application logic. A the high-level, you have automations, which are simple but look very limited in terms of capabilities (i haven't studied this part in great detail, but does its support things like looping, arbitrary conditional expressions, and an abstraction mechanism like user-defined functions?). At the low level, you have JavaScript to do fi…

Why not use a full blown programming language? The higher level workflow stuff can be a library.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

foxbee wrote: post #86
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hey. why don't you build some templates for accountants because this looks a nice thing for people like us but we aren't devs and coding financial statements from scratch, the db and all looks like a huge deal. i can totally see using this but "handholding" would be great.

Thanks for the suggestion. We recently created our first templates. Accountant templates are coming.

cool. i have a massive "excel" file that i created over the past 4 odd years. always tinkering with it, adding features.

i tried to get started but a new app from scratch is just not possible for me.

i have a simple question though. can this "self hosted option" work completly offline?

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