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Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:29PM (#35046371)
When I see low-code, I find myself looking for the Visual Basic of Web. If I could drag and drop a few pre-made controls (including a database control), double click to handle a few events, and have a CRUD app, I would be thrilled.

Unfortunately, I still have not found that yet.

Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by petersirka on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:39PM (#35046499)
That's possible with Total.js. We offer a lot of open source apps like Flow, UI Builder (it will be released soon officially - missing only the website) and Total DB (it will be released this week - missing only the website).

Total DB: https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb UI Builder: https://uibuilder.totaljs.com/

We're preparing tutorials and you will see that it's possible to do it very easily :)

Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by tluyben2 on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:46PM (#35046597)
Nice work. Is there an overview of which components are oss and which are not?
Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by petersirka on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:48PM (#35046628)
All components are open source under MIT license: https://github.com/totaljs/flowstreamcomponents/tree/main/co...

Of course, we have some premium components (under the MIT license) that are hidden. Also you can create Flow components directly in Flow, that's amazing!

Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by omnibrain on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:52PM (#35046667)
Coming from Delphi, I always think the same...

You could check Budibase, I build a simple customer portal for one of our customers with it.

Now I build a "real" project with Supabase for the backend and Vue.js + Quasar for the frontend. And that comes damn near this vision. Only a dragn'n'drop GUI editor is missing, but with the near zero reload-times of modern vue.js with Vite editing the GUI in code comes near.

There are of course several "frameworks" for Delphi, that offer "building webapps with Delphi and then compiling it to JS & Javascript, but I decided not to go into this direction, because Delphi paradigmns are no good fit for the web and I doubt I'm gonna find anyone else if I'm going to need more manpower.

For Delphi:

* TMS Webcore https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmswebcore.asp

* uniGUI http://www.unigui.com/

Delphi Inspired Pascal IDE for the Web:

* Elevate Web Builder https://www.elevatesoft.com/home

* Quartex Pascal https://quartexdeveloper.com/

* Smart Mobile Studio https://smartmobilestudio.com/

Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by spmurrayzzz on Monday March 06, 2023 @03:12PM (#35046919)
> Only a dragn'n'drop GUI editor is missing

I've been giving Storybook[1] a shot to solve this problem. Works pretty well from scratch on new projects, but importing existing Vue components, especially from large third party component libraries, has proven a little onerous so far for me. But maybe you'll have a little more luck with Vue/Quasar.

[1] https://storybook.js.org/

Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by Multrex on Monday March 06, 2023 @03:29PM (#35047123)
Try OpenBlocks. I think is the most promising and fast developing low code tool. Better than appsmith, tooljet.

https://openblocks.dev/

Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by tluyben2 on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:06PM (#35047598)
Is this related to Illa somehow? The UI builder looks very familiar.
Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by Multrex on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:29AM (#35052999)
Not related with Illa. Entire different software. I believe it would be the next big thing because of the rapid features they add in compare with other tools.
Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by tluyben2 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:23AM (#35053710)
Thanks, someone definitely was 'inspired' by the other. But yes, it looks impressive so far.
Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by rubenfiszel on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:43PM (#35048089)
You might want to give a try to windmill. open-source, self-hostable FaaS and app builder similar to retool.

[1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by tjchear on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:48PM (#35048145)
I actually have been wondering if we can skip drag and drop even, and build a CRUD app with a markdown like language.
Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by ryan_jiang on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:52PM (#35051336)
Hi - PM from Retool here. Have you tried our product? Should be super easy ~5 min to spin up a table + form CRUD application for your database tables. Plus, we can be deployed on-premise with SSO and source control.

https://retool.com/

Would love to hear what you think!

Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by capableweb on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:20AM (#35052931)
The demo video including writing (or customizing) SQL + doesn't seem to have any sort of graph/node interface at all. How is it related to Total.js / Node-RED? Seems to be a completely different tool.
Re:Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) by ybouane on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:09PM (#35099379)
Sktch.io does just that, create functionality visually including Database control, you should check it out.