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Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Saltcorn [1] is worth a look. The back-end is Postgres, so integrations are simple. It seems to work how my mind works, it's fun to use, and I don't feel limited or locked in because the data and model are in Postgres. [1] https://saltcorn.com/

Various parts of the website seem broken, but I applaud them for dogfooding everything.

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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I am making www.jigdev.com

It's not NoCode, but it's "little UI" code, meant to create BI applications when Excel is a bit too little. It's based on the observable runtime. The website and onboarding is still pretty crude.

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Slighlty offtopic: Having shipped an Odoo project this year, how is the developer experience for you? It seems like Odoo forces developers into time consuming and frustrating workflows (for example using xpath + upgrade modules + possibly reload the server) that make developing for it a pain. Or I might be missing something?

You are missing stuff. In development mode with inotify you get python hot code reloading. In development mode the XML (with a handful of exceptions regarding menus, and ir.actions) will be read from disk on refresh. At work we use Dockerized Odoo based on a [Doodba]( https://github.com/Tecnativa/doodba ). We use [click-odoo]( https://github.com/acsone/click-odoo ) to manage module upgrades (amongst other things). De…

Thank you! I will check these out!

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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How do you make an unit test with this platform ?

I'd be interested to know if anyone uses nodered for anything other than home automation or small deployments.

Sadly because of that my boss sold it as platform for non dev tech people to monitor production hardware (like weaving machines) using nodered and modbus, it's a shitty idea to do it in node red, it kinda works tho, but it's error prone, slow(to respond) and just writing some simple specific software for it would have solved the use case of the customer in a way better way, but it's great for conferences/workshops/presentations to just link up a node to a SMS /IM Provider to have some kind of wow effect

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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All of them, until you want to do something that's not a good match for whatever the platform is designed for.

If you need fine grained control over the presentation and behaviour of a system then you have to specify those things in detail exhaustive detail using a suitably expressive platform which we typically refer to as a "programming language".

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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post #15

Bubble.io is fantastic for making business applications. We find performance can often be an issue and typically transfer processing activities to external infra (incl. serverless functions)

If you draw the line and add all efforts up, is it worthy? I mean, it might be great to quickly draw the frontend, but if for the backend you must jump through a bunch of proprietary hoops, can you still feel some advantage to the entire package?

yes ... a lot.

scaling may be different but very efficient approach to getting to reasonable scale (perhaps 1000s of users)

Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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Re: Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

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I think that LowCode makes more sense than NoCode, because sooner or later you will run into a requirement that requires a bit of code, but the LowCode tools I have used can be used without writing any real code. You only need simple expressions ('a.b.c > 1') in JavaScript. An understanding of either SQL or REST/HTTP/JSON can't be avoided though, if you want to access external data.

I have some experience using Retool and UI Bakery. Both are quite similar and get the job done. The resulting UIs are never beautiful, but they are good enough to implement most requirements, and development is super-fast. I think I'd prefer Retool, but maybe that's just because I am more used to it.

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