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Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
We use echarts at https://evidence.dev and have been quite happy with it. We do a lot of embedded analytics and it's worked well for us.
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SQLPage – Building a full web application with nothing but SQL queries [video]
It’s interesting to me how far you have pushed the SQL language in this framework, such that it truly is “SQL only”.
The challenge as I see it with enabling analysts to build websites is that you need to build abstractions to get from familiar (SQL, yaml) - the language of analytics, to new (HTML, CSS, JS) - the language of the web browser
As one of the maintainers of Evidence (https://evidence.dev), one of the things I’ve often considered is how accessible our syntax is to analysts. Our syntax combines SQL and Markdown, with MDX style components e.g.
The are inherently webdev-ey, and I do think they put off potential users.
On the flip-side, by adhering to web standards, you get extensibility out of the box, and working out what to do is just a Google search away.
Anyway, thanks for the thought provoking piece.
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Blazer: Business Intelligence Made Simple
Dataclips was my first experiences writing SQL.
Writing code was a markedly better DX that building dashboards in Tableau, which is why I'm now working on https://evidence.dev - a SSG for creating data from SQL and markdown
Previous HN discussions:
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Is Tableau Dead?
I'm one of the founders of Evidence (https://evidence.dev) - would be great to hear about your experience. Reaching out now!
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Apache Superset
Full fledged BI tools like Superset and Metabase are amazing for their intended use cases.
But they may be an overkill if your primary use case is to infrequently build semi-interactive reports for non-technical end-users and your use cases are are mostly covered by standard graphs & tables. Esp. so if you are familiar with SQL and have access to the underlying data source. Two nifty utilities I have found to be very useful for latter kind of use cases are SQLPage and Evidence.
They make it very convenient to whip out some SQL and convert that to a neat professional looking web ui that can be forwarded to an end user. In case of Evidence it is a statically generated site, and in case of SQLPage it is a web app that connects to a live database.
SQLPage: https://sql.ophir.dev/
Evidence: https://evidence.dev
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A love letter to Apache Echarts
We used ECharts to build our charting library at Evidence and it’s been a great experience overall (https://evidence.dev).
We started with D3 and a few other tools, but felt that we get a lot more out of the box with ECharts, like interactivity and an events API. ECharts is also a lot more extensible than people give it credit for.
If anyone is curious, we documented the process of selecting a charting library after assessing several options: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence/issues/136
- Evidence, a static site generator for data apps
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Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
The new direction seems very similar to what evidence has been doing for a while
https://evidence.dev
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PRQL as a DuckDB Extension
I'm quite excited about this, and would also love to have it distributed as an NPM package.
I work on an OSS web framework for reporting/ decision support applications (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence), and we use WASM duckDB as our query engine. Several folks have asked for PRQL support, and this looks like it could be a pretty seamless way to add it.
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Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts
> Not sure the language you choose matters as much as making the API usable by a wide audience.
Fully agree with this, and having typeset my masters thesis and later my resume using LaTeX, I think that the “authoring experience” is 100% the place to focus on improving.
If you’re interested in the “markup to document publishing” space, you might also be interested in the open-source report publishing tool I’m now working on, Evidence (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence)
It’s similarly based on markdown, though uses code fences to execute code, HTML style tags for charts and components, and {…} for JavaScript, i.e.
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SQLpage
- OAuth and OIDC Implementation in SQL
- SQLite Schema Diagram Generator
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SQLPage – Building a full web application with nothing but SQL queries [video]
Saving further clicks:
> SQLPage is a tool that allows you to build websites using nothing more than SQL queries. You write simple text files containing SQL queries, SQLPage runs them on your database, and renders the results as a website.
The 22-line "TinyTweeter" example at 28:45 [0] in the video is a good overview - perhaps better than anything currently on the homepage/docs: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/blob/main/examples/tiny_t...
Also, based on a couple of discussions [1][2] it seems like SQLPage has the potential to combine well with HTMX too. The two projects definitely share a similar philosophy.
[0] https://youtu.be/mXdgmSdaXkg?t=1721
[1] https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/issues/84#issuecomment-19...
[2] https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/pull/175#issuecomment-187...
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Bruno
I am currently looking for a solution to run automated tests on a sql website generator I am working on ( https://sql.ophir.dev )
I wanted to use hurl (https://hurl.dev/), but Bruno's UI seems to be useful while developing the tests... Has someone tried both ? Which is better for automated testing, including when the response type is html and not json?
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Apache Superset
Full fledged BI tools like Superset and Metabase are amazing for their intended use cases.
But they may be an overkill if your primary use case is to infrequently build semi-interactive reports for non-technical end-users and your use cases are are mostly covered by standard graphs & tables. Esp. so if you are familiar with SQL and have access to the underlying data source. Two nifty utilities I have found to be very useful for latter kind of use cases are SQLPage and Evidence.
They make it very convenient to whip out some SQL and convert that to a neat professional looking web ui that can be forwarded to an end user. In case of Evidence it is a statically generated site, and in case of SQLPage it is a web app that connects to a live database.
SQLPage: https://sql.ophir.dev/
Evidence: https://evidence.dev
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PostgREST: Providing HTML Content Using Htmx
I feel obligated to add a shameless plug here. The idea is very close to a project I presented at pgconf.eu last week: SQLPage
https://sql.ophir.dev/
SQLPage has the same goal as postgrest+htmx, but is a little bit higher level. It let's you build your application using prepackaged components you can invoke directly from SQL, without having to write any HTML, CSS, or JS.
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I think I need to go lie down
It would be great if someone could open a github issue with reproduction steps and maybe a screenshot: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/issues
The worst I'm able to get when manually disabling the cache and simulating a slow 3G connection is this: a blank page first, then text in the browser's font, then the text re-renders with the right font, then the icons load. The user should never see completely unstyled content.
The site uses "font-display: fallback" so this happens only on slow network connections. If the font loads fast enough, then the fallback never appears.
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Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
The official website for SQLPage (https://sql.ophir.dev/) is written in SQLPage.
The source code is here: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/tree/main/examples/offici...
The site also links to this little collaborative game written in SQLPage: https://conundrum.ophir.dev/
The github README has code snippets and associated screenshots: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage#examples
There is also an official repl.it that you can fork to quickly try it online without having to download anything: https://replit.com/@pimaj62145/SQLPage
And SQLPage cloud is coming: https://sql.ophir.dev/your-first-sql-website/hosted.sql
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Ask HN: What do you like to see in tech talks?
Hey HN community!
I'll be making my first ever presentation at a large tech conference at pgconf.eu this December, where I'll be presenting the SQLPage webapp micro-framework ( https://sql.ophir.dev/ ). I'm eager to make a lasting impression and deliver a presentation that truly resonates with the audience at the conference, who probably knows more about postgres than I do.
That's where I could use your insights. What makes a good tech talk in your eyes? Do you like seeing mind-blowing demos, deep dives into code, compelling storytelling, or something else entirely ?
If you have any specific advice, tips, or ideas for structuring a tech conference presentation, I'm all ears. I want to ensure that my presentation is not just informative but also an experience to remember.
Thank you in advance for your guidance and suggestion !
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Show HN: A open-source financial accounting alternative to QuickBooks
When I see that, I always wonder whether this is part of the business plan of the people who distribute open source software for free, with a paid hosted version. There is some kind of a conflict of interest: the easier the software is to install and operate, the less attractive the hosted version.
I am working on an open-source software with a hosted version myself ( https://sql.ophir.dev ). It's a website builder, and I'm trying to make ease of deployment and operations a competitive advantage, which is marketed on the home page. But it may be idealistic to ask the same of others. My audience is mostly people who will have to operate the software themselves, whereas in most other domains, the people making the choice to use the software and the people who will then have to operate it are not the same.
What are some alternatives?
metriql - The metrics layer for your data. Join us at https://metriql.com/slack
dwarf - dwarf is a typed, interpreted, language that shares syntax with Rust.
superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
bigcapital - 💵 Bigcapital is financial accounting with intelligent reporting for faster decision-making, an open-source alternative to Quickbooks, Xero, etc.
Trino - Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
duckdb-prql - PRQL as a DuckDB extension
streamlit - Streamlit — A faster way to build and share data apps.
budibase - Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes 🚀
re_data - re_data - fix data issues before your users & CEO would discover them 😊
pugsql - A HugSQL-inspired database library for Python
lightdash - Self-serve BI to 10x your data team ⚡️
self-hosted - Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept