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mui-toolpad
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FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster
This seems to mainly be useful for spinning up quick and dirty internal tools.
But for that use-case, isn't it easier to use something visual and established like Retool (https://retool.com/) or that generates nice react code, like MUI Toolpad (https://mui.com/toolpad/)?
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Plasmic.app โ the visual builder for your tech stack
How does it stack up against MUI's Toolpad? (https://mui.com/toolpad/)
All things considered, they seem pretty similar - visual UI to generate React code that works alongside existing codebase, open-source & self-hostable, etc.
- just discovered MUI and...
- I hate CSS: how can I build UIs?
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Show HN: MUI Toolpad โ Open-source, local-first, admin app builder
- All configuration is stored in local files which you can version-control, edit, and deploy in any way you want.
You can check out our live demo [1]. If you find it useful, you can support us by giving a star on GitHub [2]. We released our public beta [3] this week. We are happy to answer any questions/feedback in the comments.
[1]: https://stackblitz.com/fork/github/mui/mui-toolpad/tree/mast...
[2]: https://github.com/mui/mui-toolpad
[3]: https://mui.com/blog/2023-toolpad-beta-announcement/
- MUI Toolpad: Turn Your APIs, Scripts, SQL into UIs
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Ask HN: How can a BE/infra developer handle the FE side of personal projects?
- Vercel for hosting, because they take a Git repo and host it for you in a couple clicks and manage everything. Free or cheap ($20/mo) at MVP stage.
- Next.js (Vercel's open-source React framework) will handle frontend tooling, routing, type checking, and linting for you with a single command (`npx create-next-app`). Starting the server is one more command (`next dev`) and your page is up and running.
- For the UI layer, I'd recommend either starting with one of their prebuilt templates (https://vercel.com/templates/next.js) and modifying it as needed
OR using a modern component system like https://mui.com/ or https://ant.design/ or https://chakra-ui.com/ instead of trying to learn and write your own component and JS+CSS code. Using one of these systems will allow you to compose complex apps out of well-made, well-documented, easy-to-use primitives, making it much easier to focus on business needs rather than basic frontend components and infra.
The basic MUI system, for example, is totally free. You can find third-party apps built on top of it (https://mui.com/store/#populars) and pay a one-time license fee to essentially "fork" them, getting a prebuilt working app that you just attach your backend API calls to.
There are also low-code extensions of these frameworks (meaning you start with a GUI, plan out your app that way, but still have access to the source for future advanced changes). Examples are https://mui.com/toolpad/ and https://retool.com/use-case/dashboards-and-reporting
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Is this a lot? Yes and no. React has a learning curve of its own, but it can take the place of having to learn raw HTML and CSS. (Yes, you eventually should know those things for debugging and polishing, but they are largely a level of abstraction below what you really need for a basic MVP).
Once you learn React, its primary value isn't that it's a great language (opinions differ) but that it has a humongous ecosystem of third-party vendors, free open-source libraries (basically any component you might think to build is probably already available on npm), and a wide availability of devs from hobbyists to full-timers.
Others in this topic will suggest going away from Javascript as much as possible (and using things like HTMX or backend-to-HTML solutions like the old days). That's fine, but you lose out on the rich ecosystem of React and Javascript, so you end up having to build more yourself -- which is what you're trying to avoid in your case.
My own 2ยข: As someone who grew up with HTML and made websites since the birth of Javascript and CSS, the web has always been messy. It's always been a semi-open ecosystem controlled by a few major companies (whether that's Netscape or Microsoft or Sun or Adobe, or these days Google and Apple), so it very much suffers from design-by-bullying. Whoever is the power player of the decade gets to add their favorite technologies that everyone else is forced to adopt. Thus the web became a hodgepodge of document markup systems poorly fitted for modern apps, with various hacks on top of hacks built to satisfy some big company or another's in-house needs. Sadly, that means going "vanilla HTML+JS" doesn't leave you with much, just the shattered legacy of poor historical decisions.
React at least helps by encouraging componentization and abstraction of UI elements to functions, using cleaner data models (actual variables and objects) vs direct DOM manipulation (storing page content as state).
We've gone through many generational shifts in approach, from the raw HTML days of Geocities to the you-build-it, we-host-it approach of Godaddy and its ilk, to the "all in one" CMSes like Wordpress or Drupal. These days, (if you want there to be), there can be a pretty clear separation between backend and frontend systems, and with that specialization came a bunch of startups (mentioned above) whose approach is "let us help you build it as best as we can, so you can focus on business logic instead of basic UI and infra". After 20 years of doing this, the current state of the web developer experience is actually my favorite so far. HTML and CSS suck for building apps (as opposed to documents), and although Javascript is a lot better since ECMAscript v6 (ES6), it is still inextricably tied to the DOM (and thus HTML elements) unless you use an abstraction like React.
It's the difference between writing something like:
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What is the most used react UI framework ? need to visual drag and drop app
We at MUI have been working on an open-source drag-and-drop React app builder. Link to the landing page: https://mui.com/toolpad/ This week we have published an interactive demo as well. You can check out the repo here.
illa-builder
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Low Code vs Traditional Development: Optimal Efficiency in Choice
ILLA Cloud, as an out-of-the-box low-code tool, empowers developers to rapidly construct internal tools using straightforward JavaScript, eliminating the need to create new projects.
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Open source Retool Alternatives: ILLA Cloud
Here is our website:https://www.illacloud.com/ , and here is our Github Repo: https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder
- Sharing a popular opensource project with Typescript: ILLA Builder
- Sharing a Golang Open Source Project ILLA Cloud
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GitHub - btw-so/open-source-alternatives: List of open-source alternatives to everyday SaaS products.
Adding ILLA Cloud here: https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder
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Share a tool for product managers that can be used to quickly create customized operational backend tools.
With just a database configuration request (Mysql, Mongo, Postgre, etc.) to the development team, you can pull customized BI dashboards within minutes and quickly create management tools for business operations (such as creating operational tools for Christmas activities). No longer will you need the assistance of developers to create numerous and tedious management panels, operational backends, or customized data dashboards. Additionally, if you don't know how to write SQL queries, there is an AI-powered SQL generation capability within the product, which can quickly generate complex SQL queries. With just a database configuration, you will no longer need to rely on development colleagues to help you implement customized management and operational requirements! Visit https://illacloud.com.
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Selfhosted nocode tool?
Maybe a combination of an open source front end builder like https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder and a backend like supabase
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ILLA Cloud: An open-source low-code software for developers to build internal Tools remarkably fast. Alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Mendix, PowerApps, Budibase, and more.
We are building open-source low-code software for developers to build internal tools. Our product is called ILLA CLoud. We have a cloud version and an open-source version. Today we mainly want to present folks here our open-source version. There are a couple of noteworthy features of our product, especially our open-source product. For more information, please visit our Github Page.
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Looking for best low code no code tools for marketers
GitHub Repo here
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Promote your business, week of April 17, 2023
Since we are open-source, you can visit our Github page too. Happy to share our product with you here and would love to hear if our product can support or help you here.
What are some alternatives?
appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
primereact - The Most Complete React UI Component Library
budibase - Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes ๐
mantine - A fully featured React components library
ToolJet - Low-code platform for building business applications. Connect to databases, cloud storages, GraphQL, API endpoints, Airtable, Google sheets, OpenAI, etc and build apps using drag and drop application builder. Built using JavaScript/TypeScript. ๐
n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
openblocks - ๐ฅ ๐ฅ ๐ฅ The Open Source Retool Alternative
plasmic - Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.
nocobase - NocoBase is a scalability-first, open-source no-code/low-code platform for building business applications and enterprise solutions.
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
Refine - A React Framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.