Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by dvasdekis on Sunday April 05, 2020 @06:43PM
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I've taken your stack one step further, with a completely dockerised solution that uses Firebase as an authentication solution (authentication is missing from the current low-code example). It can be run locally or on a cloud provider that runs containers (e.g. GCP Compute Create-With-Container). See here: https://github.com/dvasdekis/react-admin-hasura-firebase/
Thanks to gavinray also for the help with this!
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by cpursley on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:54AM
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This is awesome. I haven't had time to expand react-admin-low-code, so glad to see someone take the general idea and run with it. I'll update the Readme to mention your repo when I have a chance.
What we're doing in our production version of this is using Postgres and Hasura for auth following this approach in order to reduce external dependencies: https://github.com/sander-io/hasura-jwt-auth
It's really amazing how far you can get with just Postgres. Writing business logic with code in application middleware always felt hacky to me when we have these powerful and performant relation databases.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by dvasdekis on Monday April 06, 2020 @07:45PM
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Totally agree! Although I'm one of the contributors to that repo as well, the sheer number of possible attack vectors on the JWT scheme means that I was reluctant to use it in a publicly-facing use case. Let me know how it goes!
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by cpursley on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @04:09AM
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What are your biggest concerns about the Pg/Hasura JWT approach (which particular attack vectors made you nervous)?
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by pricci on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:21AM
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Thanks for this! I will add it to a project.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by gavinray on Sunday April 05, 2020 @04:50PM
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Hey man, really cool to see you comment here! We've chatted in the Hasura Discord briefly, love your work with the React Admin adapter. RA requires more manual work to set up and the aesthetics are different (Material UI), but it also gives you more flexibility.
For anyone looking for a self-hosted solution that can be more easily whitelabeled, highly recommend cpursley's work.
You should pop by the server chat more often =D
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by sseppola on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:36AM
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May I ask, why not just use the official provider? https://github.com/hasura/ra-data-hasura
Combine Hasura (automatic GraphQL on top of PostgreSQL) with React Admin (low code CRUD apps similar to Forest) and you can build an entire back office admin suite or form app (API endpoints and admin front end) in a matter of hours.
This adaptor connects react-admin with Hasura: https://github.com/Steams/ra-data-hasura-graphql
Here's a reference application I put together: https://github.com/cpursley/react-admin-low-code
And we're taking a step further and using Elixir to listen to Postgres table changes for an "Event" style architecture: https://medium.com/hackernoon/get-notified-of-user-signups-a...