low-code-backend-dockered VS graphql-zeus

> 1. Hasura - DB + Basic APIS, 2. Ory.sh for Auth/Authz

Great choices!

3. React on the frontend

Here I'd go with Elm, and a generated GraphL API client. Here an example to play with (which btw also includes ZomboDB for ElasticSearch integration into Postgres)

https://github.com/cies/low-code-backend-dockered

> 4. Windmill.dev

Look awesome, never heard of it. Tnx

> If you like code-focused solution: Rails, Laravel and Django are good options.

I think Kotlin/KTor, while not as full featured, is a much better alternative due to the strong typing discipline.

I was a big Rails, Ruby and dynamic typing fanboy. But then my project grew in size and I changed my beliefs.

I'd not start a big project in any language without: null-safety, proper sum-types, type inference.

Hence I like Kotlin, and KTor seems to be a good Sinatra/Flask like in that arena.

Another interesting development I find no-code/low-code tools for the backend, like Hasura. This allows me to "just expose Postgres over GraphQL" with very little code (mainly configuration). That combined with type-safe client library generation for a typesafe frontend language like Elm gives me all the power I need in a very different paradigm. Something worth considering.

Small example Hasura+Elm project: https://github.com/cies/low-code-backend-dockered

My plug: https://github.com/cies/elm-hasura-dockered

I agreed. Then did a project[1] with Hasura and a generated client lib in Elm and I'm no longer looking back. If I can get away with "no backend code" I'll do it again in a heart beat.

[1] https://github.com/cies/elm-hasura-dockered

When I asked this in StackOverflow over a year ago I reached the solution of using graphql + graphql-zeus.

You can think of GraphQL Zeus as Prisma for the frontend: it writes GraphQL queries out of JavaScript objects and produces the proper return types.

graphql-zeus: You write your graphql queries using a JavaScript object like syntax. Looks cool, but I think it's too big of a burden on the team to have to give up writing queries using graphql-tag/gql.

https://github.com/graphql-editor/graphql-zeus generates subscription code and in generated code you'll find simple apiSubscription function you can use/copy

You can do this with GraphQL too:

https://genql.vercel.app/

https://github.com/graphql-editor/graphql-zeus

I did a 5 min talk about these newer breeds of codegen tools (where it's a single client SDK that does automatic return type inference based on the input args), it's really neat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n3MeMFHiMk