Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by gavinray on Sunday April 05, 2020 @06:23PM
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Might I ask what limitations/issues you ran into?
One of the biggest pain points I found was modeling Organization/Team/Multi-Tenant based permissions.
Generally, the advice is to use a session variable like X-Hasura-Organization-Id to filter in permissions, but recently through a Discord conversation a means to do this without a session variable was found out and I took some time to publish it as a Gist:
https://gist.github.com/GavinRay97/d7b8805078a47e00001e58eb8...
I would be interested in hearing what problems you had and seeing if there isn't some way around it, just for my own curiosity.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by simplify on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:34PM
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Right, those are the kind of permissions I had trouble with. That gist works for reads based on membership (even if a little unintuitive), but I couldn't figure out how do writes that validate using roles & permissions.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by goldcaddy77 on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:15AM
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If you’re looking for more flexibility than Hasura, I’d recommend you try out Warthog (disclaimer: I’m the author). It’s a Node Library that uses TypeORM, TypeGraphQL and some extra magic under the hood to let you spin up APIs very quickly (auto-generated schema), but you also have access to the bare metal code. You can set up CRUD essentially free, but it provides you a slew of ways to handle more complex scenarios.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by gavinray on Monday April 06, 2020 @07:25PM
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Warthog is super cool too.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as...
by telekid on Sunday April 05, 2020 @08:27PM
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Are you aware of http://www.hyperfiddle.net/?
If only Hasura supported some king of Prolog / Datalog instead of their ad-hoc JSON language, then you'd be able to write nearly any possible use cases. Until then, I'll stick to building and maintaining my own backends... manually :(