Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

Post by murukesh_s » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 8:28 PM UTC

Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #41

usrme wrote: post #7

I've found that Azure's Logic App Service has been shockingly useful to me! The hard prerequisite is that you are within the Azure ecosystem, but using Logic Apps instead of defaulting to writing PowerShell for Function Apps significantly decreased development time, has increased the ease with which I can debug workflows, and when you're on the free tier (with both aforementioned flavors), then Logic Apps still reign…

We are in the middle of a year-long project to 'rewrite' all of our ESB glue/pipelines from MuleSoft to the Azure platform. We've been using Azure for a while now for almost all hosting. But our ESB had still been in Mule, because as sort of the vital arteries of our entire enterprise, it's hard to seriously consider completely reimplementing them -- especially since we're only about 3 years out from implementing Mul…

Post by verdverm » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

evaneykelen wrote: post #19

For web development such as landing pages I like https://webflow.com . They've been able to create a nice UI that abstracts-away nested styling. It also provides decent animation features, form processing, and CDN asset delivery. Its biggest drawback is a lack of i18n without resorting to 3rd party iffy JS solutions.

Post by mehh » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

dmortin wrote: post #29

monkpit wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do packages really count? You could go on for a long time listing applications that have packages or plugins, but I think it misses the point of the question.

Actually, Emacs is a low coding editing environment, because the strength of emacs is that once you can program it it's extremely easy to write extensions for it, even for one off tasks, because it's so quick and easy. Compared to this writing extensions for vscode, for example, is much more convoluted. You wouldn't create a new vscode extension for a 1 hour task, while with emacs it's trivial to write some small cod…

Post by feifan » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 8:36 PM UTC

crabl wrote: post #50

Being a part of the Dark beta ( https://darklang.com ) has been incredible. It makes setting up a simple backend with persistent storage a breeze.

Post by damidekronik » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 8:37 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #15

Hasura by far, lets you point-and-click build your database and table relationships with a web dashboard and autogenerates a full GraphQL CRUD API with permissions you can configure and JWT/webhook auth baked-in. https://hasura.io/ I've been able to build in a weekend no-code what would've taken my team weeks or months to build by hand, even with something as productive as Rails. It automates the boring stuff and you…