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Re:Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier al... by eightysixfour on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:09PM (#34617781)
n8n is also great about this. It retains the visual “easy mode” environment but lets you drop in a JavaScript node whenever you need to do something more complex
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Re:Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier al... by vhanda on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:42AM (#34624820)
I found the JavaScript nodes to be quite annoying. Specifically -

1. I want a proper IDE

2. Proper typing so the feedback cycle is faster.

3. Being able to use external packages

4. Being able to quickly test my custom node across old runs.

Their JavaScript nodes take me an absurd amount of time to get right. And I've needed to use them far more often than I would like.

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Re:Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier al... by mstipetic on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:33AM (#34627935)
Wow, I’m never gonna try to build a tool for developers
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Re:Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier al... by Existenceblinks on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:06PM (#34635770)
All of the list and they also want to pay you $0. $20 sounds like a robbery. Meanwhile it costs 20 minutes of a freelance time.. for the whole product.
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