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ActiveAdmin | ToolJet | |
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22 | 174 | |
9,445 | 26,580 | |
0.3% | 2.2% | |
9.3 | 9.9 | |
12 days ago | 2 days ago | |
Ruby | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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ActiveAdmin
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Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?
Can you clarify what's the "tremendous value" you're getting out of the Django admin?
At Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ we are using Active Admin https://activeadmin.info/ for Ruby on Rails, which seems quite similar to the Django admin. In my experience, it's mostly useful as a fairly basic read-only view of what's in the database. In Rails, it's so easy to whip together a custom view that we tend to do that, and the Active Admin is nice to have but I wouldn't say "tremendous value".
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Top 5 Ruby on Rails Gems
Github Link : https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin
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View code coverage (active_admin and orther .arb file)
for those who know [https://activeadmin.info/](https://activeadmin.info/) it uses a file format [https://github.com/activeadmin/arbre](https://github.com/activeadmin/arbre)
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Show HN: Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster – Avo
Very neat! My first thought was that this was a competitor to https://bullettrain.co/.
Looking into it a bit more, it seems more aimed at building admin panels than whole apps. I guess it competes against tools like https://activeadmin.info/?
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From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails
We briefly considered migrating to a full-grown Rails admin interface, such as ActiveAdmin, RailsAdmin, Administrate or Avo. We especially liked Avo which is built on a very modern stack similar to ours (Tailwind + Hotwire + ViewComponents). In the end, we didn’t go this route as we found some of the options a bit too restrictive (even though Avo is very flexible) and we did not feel like trying to amend it to our needs. For example, Avo renders forms in a 1-field-per-row layout while we wanted something more similar to the Tailwind UI Stacked form layout. Nevertheless, we found a great deal of inspiration in the Avo code and its design principles.
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Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app
I second Rails. It's incredibly polished and has really good gems to speed up dev. ActiveAdmin is a great gem if you need to quickly make an admin dashboard. It was useful when I had a small consultancy.
https://activeadmin.info/
- Eager to help a Junior without experience?
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Admin Framework for Rails
See an example: https://activeadmin.info It provides a fast way to create back office functionality.
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We built an open-source platform (3k stars on GitHub) for building & deploying react based internal tools.
[1] https://activeadmin.info/
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Stop Building a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End
I can't speak much about Rails, as I've only played with it. But I've used a lot Django in the past.
Regarding the Django admin (in rails you have ActiveAdmin[1]) think if it just as a glorified database explorer. It is an internal tool for developers, product managers and maybe for your support team. It is in no way thought to be used by end users. Every attempt I've seen to use it as such was a catastrophic failure.
With Django, if you know plain HTML and CSS, with the tools I've mentioned in the comment you're responding to, you can build almost anything... For example, let's say you need a highly interactive client side table.... you can always just attach a Vue or a React component for it by using Unpoly compilers [2].
I'd say this stack is less useful the more your app needs to work fully offline... but if you don't have that constraint... I cannot think of anything that can't be built faster and safer.
[1] https://activeadmin.info/
[2] https://unpoly.com/up.compiler
ToolJet
- ToolJet: Open-Source Alternative to Retool
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Launch HN: Creo (YC W24) – Build Internal Tools with React/NextJS
As everyone mentioned, there are tons of OSS alternatives which are well established. One of which is tooljet: https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet
- Another open-core project rejecting PR citing paid feature
- Automate complicated manual business processes
- Launch HN: Refine (YC S23) – Open-Source Retool for Enterprise
- ToolJet Secures Funding from Microsoft
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Open source Retool Alternatives: ILLA Cloud
I discovered ToolJet just yesterday - https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet
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Building a customer Support Desk App with ToolJet and PostgreSQL
ToolJet is an open-source low-code framework that enables us to build full-stack web applications within a few minutes. With ToolJet, you can create standalone fully-functional full-stack applications or embed applications into other websites.
- Budibase, a GUI for building apps on top of SQL, REST, Google Sheets, and open-source alternative to Airtable and Retool, now ships with a 👥 Multiplayer Collaboration, 🤖 Autocomplete Bindings, 🔄 and Synchronous Automations.
- ToolJet 2.6.0 - Open-source low-code framework for building business applications with AI assistant for SQL queries & custom JS/Py code. Also added OpenAI as a plugin, OCR via AWS Textract & gRPC plugin. Deploy using Docker, k8s, AWS AMI & more! Alternative to Retool, Power Apps & Mendix.
What are some alternatives?
RailsAdmin - RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
budibase - Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes 🚀
Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails
authentik - The authentication glue you need.
Avo - Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster
nocodb - 🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source Airtable Alternative
go-admin - A golang framework helps gopher to build a data visualization and admin panel in ten minutes
Directus - The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.
ActiveScaffold - Save time and headaches, and create a more easily maintainable set of pages, with ActiveScaffold. ActiveScaffold handles all your CRUD (create, read, update, delete) user interface needs, leaving you more time to focus on more challenging (and interesting!) problems.
n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.