Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an open-source framework

Re:Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an o... by tixocloud on Saturday February 27, 2021 @11:08AM (#26285701)

Very nice tool. Especially keen on the YAML format and rendering for form purposes. Is it possible to abstract that part out on my own? Does it also come with a GUI editor? I’d like to plug it into our production platform to allow our customers to design their own forms.

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Re:Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an o... by SamTolmay on Saturday February 27, 2021 @12:46PM (#26286546)

Thanks! I'll go through some things that are possible, and hopefully that answers your questions. Please let me know if I missed/misunderstood anything.

Firstly, we don't have an existing GUI that generates Lowdefy config, but you would be able to build a GUI that does that using Lowdefy. We kind of do that in the documentation, where we give you options to configure a block. So you would be able to write a "form generation app", where users define their forms.

To render the forms it would be possible (but would require a little engineering) to create a React component that renders Lowdefy config, that you could use in your production platform. (This already exists, but currently is connected to the browser router and graphql client in our "renderer" package).

Otherwise you should also be able to run a Lowdefy app in an iframe to render the forms.

Does that make sense?

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