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Show HN: Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications
- cameronstanley 10y agoFirst thing I thought of was FFVII. This looks like a pretty solid tool, will definitely be trying it out.
- irunbackwards 10y agoWhat's funny is Omnihash was right below this post when I first clicked on it. So much nostalgia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12455305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12455305
- favorited 10y agoHaha thanks – I totally didn't pick up on that reference.
- djacobs 10y agoThis looks excellent. I've wanted to build something like this for a while, and I'm excited to play around with it. Nice work!
- ollerac 10y agoThis looks great. I've been playing around with Elm, but one thing that's held me back is getting a quick back-end set up. I think this could probably help with that. I'll definitely be playing around with this at some point. It looks great and the small animations do a great job of illustrating how things work.
- cel1ne 10y agoCheck out http://postgrest.com/ http://postgrest.com/. It converts your database into a REST-api.
- pawanpe 10y agoWill definitely give it a try, Thanks!
- nadiac 10y agoHopefully a backend that lets me stay in my own environment and don't oblige me to code on THEIR hosted cloud platform. I like the WYSIWYG approach, as far as I tried it seems not limited like classic wysiwyg interfaces. You guys should open source to have the full community behind you to make the Parse that Parse should have been. Easy to use, Open, community driven and deployable anywhere.
- citruspi 10y agoBoth the editor[0] and the server[1] are open source. [0]: https://github.com/webshell/materia-designer https://github.com/webshell/materia-designer [1]: https://github.com/webshell/materia-server https://github.com/webshell/materia-server Edit: My bad, only the server is open source.
- thyb 10y agoMateria server is fully open source. We are in the process of commenting it better for people to contribute and customize it. Materia Designer is not fully open source, we use this repository as issue tracker and to keep a trace of everything. We’re still considering open-sourcing it too to engage the community for building addons.
- citruspi 10y agoAh, my bad. I just saw the link, I probably should've taken 30 seconds to check out the repository contents.
- sftcore 10y agomobile site needs a bit of work ;)
- swah 10y agoAnd I'm looking to learn how write a Windows editor in C...
- bumpmann 10y ago?
- htuao 10y agoWas looking for quick backend set up too. And the fact is open source is great! But what will be paying and when do we pay?
- erichocean 10y ago> Materia Designer has been made to cover all major aspects of developing an application, in 9 quick steps. Step 6: "Develop your Single page application" Might just be me, but I'm pretty sure that "quick step" isn't typically used to describe this activity.
- Edmond 10y agoI Like the UI, it is time for dev tools to start looking like they're used by adults instead of typically looking like the video game screen of a teenager. As a developer of web dev tools (crudzilla.com), I am biased towards tools built in the browser though. You probably get better performance natively but I think you make up for that with all the other things the browser offers, especially for web development. my 2 cent :)
- spraak 10y agoDoes anyone know of tools like this except that are for building a UI that I could wire my own backend to?
- srikz 10y agoI'm not sure if it helps, but there are some Bootstrap site designer IDEs which may help with what you need. Pingendo (free) [www.pingendo.com] Bootstrap Studio ($25) [www.bootstrapstudio.io] The discussion for Bootstrap Studio on HN had some alternatives discussed [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12456335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12456335]
- inputcoffee 10y agoI've been waiting for a service like this! I was just thinking about this yesterday. In my mind I wanted to set up a database in the cloud using MS Access (my favorite database set up tool), and then set up the queries, and have something else deal with authentication. I feel there must be some competition. Anyone know what that might be?
- city41 10y agoJust a heads up, getting a confusing message on Linux: http://i.imgur.com/aTzQ8MU.png http://i.imgur.com/aTzQ8MU.png
- budhajeewa 10y agoHaha. I was going to comment the same. :D
- rkeene2 10y agoYou raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sir. Bravo! Not to get off on a rant here, but it is annoying when developer tools are posted here without a mention that it's not available for an OS developers here may be using. Doubly so when there's a Linux download link that just does nothing.
- thyb 10y agoThe message/button has been fixed, sorry for the inconvenience. It's also aimed to be supported on Linux in a near future.
- aridiculous 10y agoI really enjoyed going through the quickstart. It doubles as a really great teaching tool for people coming from front-end and design. It made a lot of data modeling concepts stick. There are some bugs here and there, but keep up the good work!
- dandare 10y agoCongrats to appealing design. Is it Material UI or just inspired by?
- budhajeewa 10y agoI am on Linux and nothing happens when I click the "Download for Linux" button.
- kvgr 10y agoHi, the tool looks cool. But I cannot find info about language/platform. From what I kind of guessed it is JS/Node, it that right?
- sovrin 10y agoI'm completely baffled! I'm developing a similar client/server application with the exact same name aswell! But I chose different technologies as nwjs and vuejs for the client and php7 for the server side. Well I guess, I have to rename my project before publishing it :D http://fs5.directupload.net/images/160909/y55jylk6.png http://fs5.directupload.net/images/160909/y55jylk6.png
- maxencecornet 10y agoWow, that's weird
- tmikaeld 10y agoYou should know that by using Materia, you have agreed to it's EULA that explicitly says that you cannot create any similar product in terms of look and functionality. "Copy any features, functions or user interfaces of the Products;" https://getmateria.com/terms https://getmateria.com/terms So now it becomes much harder for you to make a similar product.
- Zuider 10y agoCan such an EULA even be remotely binding? Especially in the light of the fact that the OP notes that he had independently developed a very similar product, and there are a lot of ? What is so unique in this product that similar features in another application could be proven to be copying?
- tmikaeld 10y agoIt would depend on where the EULA was accepted and which country the developer is from. If it's the US, I bet the person with the deepest pockets would win in court (or settle). If it's in the EU, there are already a ton of patents about visually binding SQL - the biggest being Oracle.
- claudiojulio 10y agoit seems that there is no native tool for creating users
- maxencecornet 10y agoCongrats it looks great ! I'll give it a try ! When do you think mysql integration will be added ? Anytime soon ?
- med_abidi 10y agothe site is down.