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Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

xnorswap wrote: post #17
rubenfiszel wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried quickly the app builder with Firefox and it seemed to mostly work fine. I would bet it's just that the devs use chrome and didn't have time to test extensively all their advanced features on all browsers.

What advanced features would be supported by a 3 year old Safari, a 4 year old Chrome, but not by Firefox? It's a kind of laziness that does the open web great harm by putting unnecessary barriers in front of Firefox users when they shouldn't be there. Feature detection for any newer APIs is far better. If you know you rely on a particular API set then you can test for precisely that. Otherwise let browsers be instea…

yeah, why is firefox lagging behind? well you are stupid to use firefox, i only use muh brave, it blocks ads by default and gives you crypto in return to show their ads.

/s if you didn realize

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

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Post by BeefWellington »

alvis wrote: post #27
xnorswap wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What advanced features would be supported by a 3 year old Safari, a 4 year old Chrome, but not by Firefox? It's a kind of laziness that does the open web great harm by putting unnecessary barriers in front of Firefox users when they shouldn't be there. Feature detection for any newer APIs is far better. If you know you rely on a particular API set then you can test for precisely that. Otherwise let browsers be instea…

It's unfair to call the dev lazy on this ground. Even modern browsers are far better than the old days, there remain many discrepancies between browsers and they are still hard to come up with solutions that fit all platforms. Making a static web page work on different browsers is much easier than making a web app work on all the browsers. For a web app, even 1% of the API doesn't work, the whole app is a failure. Ca…

> I've no idea what makes it incompatible with Firefox, but without knowing the reason, it's an offence to call it laziness.

If they didn't bother documenting the compatibility issues, even if only so that future roadmaps can review and take stock of any changes in browser functionality down the road -- or to allow others to work on/around the problem, that's laziness and it's fair to call it out as such.

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

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Post by kwerk »

foxbee wrote: post #30
Multrex wrote: post #12

Is it stable? I really want to ditch appsmith, tried ToolJet but didn't hook me. Yours look promising, i hope you continue the development of it.

Have you tried Budibase? For reference, I am the cofounder of Budibase and we're planning 2023 so I am super-eager for feedback. https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Fwiw BigQuery support is what kept me from testing budibase and using retool for a project just 2 weeks ago.

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

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Post by foxbee »

kwerk wrote: post #34
foxbee wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried Budibase? For reference, I am the cofounder of Budibase and we're planning 2023 so I am super-eager for feedback. https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Fwiw BigQuery support is what kept me from testing budibase and using retool for a project just 2 weeks ago.

Ahhh. We have a plugin repo now and there's a plugin for BigQuery:

https://github.com/marblekirby/budibase-big-query-plugin

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

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Post by ebiester »

afhammad wrote: post #2

I use Retool extensively at work for internal tooling (A.K.A Backoffice). It's really good in that I don't have to think about it much. There seems to be a new open-source competitor popping up every month, which is great, but I really wish people would get behind one or two of them and make them much stronger contenders. The comparisons listed (other than being OSS) are mostly superficial and in some cases already a…

We're still in the exploration of ideas at this point. Eventually that will happen, but I think there's a lot of room to explore before converging on the best implementations.

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

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Post by sangnoir »

xnorswap wrote: post #17
rubenfiszel wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried quickly the app builder with Firefox and it seemed to mostly work fine. I would bet it's just that the devs use chrome and didn't have time to test extensively all their advanced features on all browsers.

What advanced features would be supported by a 3 year old Safari, a 4 year old Chrome, but not by Firefox? It's a kind of laziness that does the open web great harm by putting unnecessary barriers in front of Firefox users when they shouldn't be there. Feature detection for any newer APIs is far better. If you know you rely on a particular API set then you can test for precisely that. Otherwise let browsers be instea…

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