Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI

Posted by Anuttam on Thursday July 04, 2024 @04:03AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://boringui.vercel.app/

Hey hackers, introducing BoringUi, a tool to convert your json data to web ui. Just enter the data, describe how you want the ui and done!

Thinking of adding a feature to directly connect api so my backend folks never have to learn bloated frontend frameworks for simple tasks. It can be used for internal presentation, MVP etc where you don't want a complex ui.

Checkout the Twitter post : https://x.com/AnuttamAna56189/status/1808423300571316500?t=2...

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by mutant on Thursday July 04, 2024 @08:16AM (#40874279)

Doesn't appear to work now

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by mutant on Thursday July 04, 2024 @08:17AM (#40874290)

Also. Fuck xitter, move on bro

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by Anuttam on Thursday July 04, 2024 @12:48PM (#40876295)

Still working for me. What did you try ?

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by AndyKluger on Thursday July 04, 2024 @11:34AM (#40875711)

What's the license? Is there a repo?

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by Anuttam on Thursday July 04, 2024 @12:50PM (#40876308)

Not opensourced currently. Building up more features, join the waitlist https://tally.so/r/3E0KjL

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by itake on Thursday July 04, 2024 @01:43PM (#40876697)

the default json generated a view with white text on a white background :hmm:

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by Anuttam on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:40PM (#40877480)

I also faced this sometimes. Improving

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by 0x20cowboy on Thursday July 04, 2024 @02:25PM (#40876997)

It’s older, but here is another alternative https://github.com/robrohan/lib-loopy

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by Anuttam on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:42PM (#40877489)

Nice. It can be clubbed with this but I have chosen json to let people create ui from their data since json is a common format. Gonna add feature to connect api and generate ui directly

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by sabbaticaldev on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:56PM (#40877583)

this was archived 4 years ago and doesn’t even build anymore, what’s the point of saying it’s an alternative? it’s not

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by ramon156 on Thursday July 04, 2024 @02:49PM (#40877131)

This is converting, this is generating. I keep getting different results which I don't expect when converting.

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by Anuttam on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:40PM (#40877478)

This is v1. Upcoming features will be persisting ui.

Join waitlist: https://tally.so/r/3E0KjL

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by nsiradze on Saturday July 06, 2024 @11:06AM (#40890840)

what kind of use cases or specific scenarios are you targeting with this feature? I get about internal presentation or MVP but, why should I pay for it

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Re:Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI by Anuttam on Sunday July 07, 2024 @12:53PM (#40898779)

The plan is to evolve it to a full frontend. For ex connect your backend api and generate ui for your content and use custom domain directly (handling pagination also). Use for dashboards etc.

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