Motor Admin VS platform

Tangential: MotorAdmin is a pretty reasonable, mountable, Rails-based option.

I'm using it to pack BrowserUp, a command line app that can run load tests in Ruby using your own Ruby/Capybara/Selenium/Cuprite libraries (note: still alpha, ping if interested). Motor Admin ships a web app with a no-code admin utility. I think Shopify would have been way better off using this for their latest command line interface rather than taking on a Node dependency, but they might not have realized this was an option, so that's part of why I'm sharing this.

There seems enough competitors when this looks like a tool from 20 years ago with limited functionality.

If you somehow do not use the obvious GUI tools like TablePlus, Postico or SequelAce but prefer web based, there are some that actually look modern.

https://www.getmotoradmin.com/

https://www.nocodb.com/

https://redash.io/

For readonly usage, Metabase is good.

You should check Motor Admin open-source tool (disclaimer: I'm the creator of the tool): https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin

>Auto-generating the GUI from SQL schema, similar to the original Django Admin

Thats exactly how Motor Admin works :)

The link posted here is to a Supabase-specific landing page.

Their main home page doesn't mention Supabase: https://www.getmotoradmin.com/

If you want a more codeless approach (not as customizable, but it already looks good and works fine out of the box), I suggest Motor Admin. You just plop it in your project, run a few migrations and it's ready to go. From that point forward, you can add forms, graphs, and query all of your models without coding as much.

Github

There are many open-source no-code tools so you can gain full control over your data/application with them as well as contribute into the source code.

For instance, you can deploy an admin panel with https://www.getmotoradmin.com/ (plug) and save a lot of time building custom internal tools.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Dashjoin (https://github.com/dashjoin/platform)

Implementing the features you mentioned:

Once you connect your SQL / NoSQL database, you're immediately able to view, query, search, and edit the data. Every record implicitly has a "homepage". On this page, you can add active elements to automate tasks via REST services. We do this using JSONata (jsonata.org) which is a super expressive and concise transformation and query language. You can find some samples in our demo application (https://github.com/dashjoin/dashjoin-demo).

The core philosophy is to get immediate results and refine from there, depending on your cost / benefit calculation.

SDLC:

I think this is a very important point! Even though you're working with low code, it is still a development project with testing, staging, and production, issues, tickets, etc.

I agree that once a project gets a bit more complex, these points are very important.

In our low code platform (https://github.com/dashjoin/platform), you end up writing several JSONata (https://jsonata.org/) snippets for ETL, actions, and visualizations.

These can be tested using junit. All changes to the app can be managed and deployed via GitHub. You can check out our sample app:

GitHub: https://github.com/dashjoin/dashjoin-demo

We scan the DB schema and suggest possible joins. The platform also supports basic CRUD operations using forms powered by JSON Schema. Would love to hear your feedback! Github: https://github.com/dashjoin/platform