Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

• appsmith

  233 31,450 10.0 TypeScript

  Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

  

I recently evaluated a bunch and https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith covered our needs. For building internal tools seems like a great alternative.

• anvil-runtime

  14 829 4.6 Clojure

  The runtime engine for hosting Anvil web apps

  

Take a look at https://anvil.works - it's not just "low code", it's a full web-dev platform so simple that you can build a dashboard with a few lines of Python - front end, back end and drag-n-drop design. (I'm a founder.)

The trouble with "low-code" is that you're stuck on rails - it's very easy to do a few things, but the moment you want something the creators didn't anticipate, prepare for a lot of pain.

Anvil is the opposite approach - it's a dev environment that happens to be simple enough to build a dashboard in minutes, but with a Real Damn Programming Language. It's basically Delphi for the web: It's got a drag-n-drop designer, Python in the browser and on the server, code editor with full-stack autocomplete, etc.

(And unlike "low-code" tools, the runtime engine is open source, so you're not locked in: https://github.com/anvil-works/anvil-runtime)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• skulpt

  2 3,308 7.5 Python

  Skulpt is a Javascript implementation of the Python programming language

  

I love the value proposition of full stack w/ nothing but Python here. Backend has been cool enough with Python but for anything serious in the frontend, js and friends is almost always a necessity. Bridging that gap seems pretty lucrative, especially with your python → js compiler.¹

[1] https://github.com/skulpt/skulpt

• grafanalib

  4 1,825 7.2 Python

  Python library for building Grafana dashboards

  

Grafana is pretty great. There are a lot of built in connectors, but its ability to query arbitrary REST, JSON, oData etc endpoints along with databases makes it super flexible for what you mentioned.

https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/simpod-json-datasource

It has a great GUI for building queries, plus solid RBAC, great charting, and a very flexible alert system. Configure in their GUI, then get your dashboard's code in as JSON for deployment. You can also define dashboard in actual code, ie grafanalib in Python and others- which is great for DevOps. https://github.com/weaveworks/grafanalib

They have nice stylesheets ready for TV displays, but it gets really fun when users get their hands on it and can zoom in and drill down on time-series data, filter with dynamic parameters and such.

• Apache Superset

  3 34,745 9.9 Python

  Discontinued Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform [Moved to: https://github.com/apache/superset]

  

Check out Superset. https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset

It’s modern, easy to extend. From the same author of apache airflow.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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