Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends

Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by arey_abhishek on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:09AM (#26658546)

I'm a founder of Appsmith that has already been mentioned here. It's an open source project to help you build CRUD UI on top on any database(MySQL, Postgres included) or API. We give UI components to create forms, charts, tables, etc.

GitHub link: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by algo_trader on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:09PM (#26665403)

It looks great. So impressive.

I am going through the "Create Standup Application" tutorial.

Did u use a specific library to add the hints/popups or is it all manually patched in?

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by arey_abhishek on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:38PM (#26665720)

Thanks! We built it custom because we needed some specific interactions. You can find the code here: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/tree/release/app/cli...

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by akash_cm on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:27AM (#26669205)

Library might be an overkill I guess. It is an absolute positioned element. There is a config for each step as to what to show at each step in the popup. The animation at the end makes use of https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-web

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by throwaway180118 on Friday April 02, 2021 @06:04AM (#26670251)

This is really nice. Just what I was looking for, as I was suffering from CRUD fatigue

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by codechoir on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:44PM (#26662882)

I've just looked into Appsmith and it seems like a fantastic solution! Thanks! :)

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by tluyben2 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:52PM (#26665217)

We also like appsmith quite a bit: it is simple and just works.

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by karlhughes on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:49AM (#26658789)

I was just going to mention Appsmith. Great tool!

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by Dwolb on Thursday April 01, 2021 @08:29AM (#26659595)

Appsmith looks incredible thank you for sharing.

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by vimy on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:55PM (#26674672)

It reminds me of Visual Basic 6, in a good way.

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by kmwr on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:48AM (#26672446)

Very Nice Job !!

Do you plan to include GraphQL queries ?

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by arey_abhishek on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:29PM (#26675083)

Thanks! Yes native Graphql will be coming soon. Right now you can use POST queries to connect to GraphQL endpoints

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by kmwr on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:40PM (#26683532)

Good to know that ! Appsmith is my goto to create tools for my dev team starting from now !! Another last thing, can you provide a simple docker-compose instead of the internet install script which can be a headache for devops teams ? Thank you

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by mohanarpit on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:09AM (#26687284)

Hey kmwr, I'm the maintainer of Appsmith. The install script downloads and configures the docker-compose.yml file underneath the hood. It also allows users to configure SSL, setup encryption keys etc which would otherwise need to be done manually.

I understand that in order to have a repeatable installation process (as per Devops best practices), you'd like to have a single configuration file instead. We are working on some Helm charts for this very purpose.

For now, you can go through the process of installing Appsmith via the script and then use the generated files as a template in your Terraform/Ansible scripts.

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Re:Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based d... by riodeuno on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:32PM (#26684462)

Really glad to hear that!

About your suggestion, I've created an issue for this. We can discuss how we can help make things easier to setup, with the team. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/issues/3853

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