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Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by lredd on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:15PM (#36141708)
Hi! Yes, thanks for the clarification! And by "robust frontends" I meant "advanced views," so you're totally right! The goal with Onu is for you to be able to build those advanced views completely in backend code instead of using React. We made this choice so that pure backend engineers wouldn't have to learn React to build internal tools. In fact, I didn't know any react while being an infra eng at lyft! We've heard this from a lot of other backend engineers as well -- they don't want to deal with react components.

To define inputs in Onu, devs use our SDK! This is actually what Airplane does as well (I think they deprecated their yaml config).

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Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by rubenfiszel on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:24PM (#36141866)
Agreed, backend engineers do not like writing frontend code. From there, for advanced views, I believe interval.com chose the route of having the frontend being defined in the task itself with an SDK (which I think is what you seem to hint towards?), and for windmill we have a drag-n-drop/retool-like UI builder if react is too much.
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Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by alexarena on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:41PM (#36143136)
interval.com founder here, this is correct! Everything w/ us is defined in our SDK.

So instead of writing React code or using a drag-and-drop builder, you define everything ranging from simple forms to more complex views in Node.js or Python code using our SDK.

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