Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app?

I would consider Django and just using its Admin framework for building your UI, you can achieve so much very quickly with almost no code.

I believe it’s a brilliant tool for building internal CRUD type db apps.

Knowing how to use the admin framework well is basically a developer super power.

You won’t need any external libraries, it has brilliant docs and important tools like database migrations are built in.

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I would still build a crud app with the frameworks and dependency hell you are referring to. Magic solutions tend to save time in the short term but often cost more than it saved in the mid to long term.

This is the right answer. There are use cases which are served well by simple builders - temporary or event-related apps, short-lived internal tools, etc., but if there is the faintest possibility that this will require maintenance and extension - and "can last for a long time" points to this - you need something robust that you can reliably tinker with.

>Is it a stupid question?

It is not a stupid question at all. A problem I thought would have been solved by now or very closed to solving it. But we are not even half way there. Especially the self hosted API and services part.

Basically you want to bring Native App development model to the web. Although I think WebObject in the old days were quite close?

The current recommendation are Laravel, Rails and Django.

What do you want to achieve or build with it? I'd suggest Rails as it's pretty easy to get something up and running but that depends on what tech you are familiar with. It's boring, has a lot of resources online and doesn't change much so maybe a good choice.