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This! The funny thing about no code is that after delving into it for 6 months as a non-technical person and realising its limitations it pushed me to start my
by kirso 5y ago
This!
The funny thing about no code is that after delving into it for 6 months as a non-technical person and realising its limitations it pushed me to start my code learning journey again.
It has its purpose for prototyping and some early validation but...
It gets expensive... it gets fragmented and you are closed down to one ecosystem (hello Bubble).
I hacked things together with airtable, Webflow and Zapier. It aggregated to hundreds of dollars per month in costs. I also found myself constantly trying to find some workarounds and in fact there are additional app extensions to Webflow that allow to create even basic functionality like search or multi-filters.
Long story short it has its place for specific purposes but even then I would still rather learn how to spin-off netlify or vercel and put a boiler plate with mailchimp online to test my hypothesis rather than mapping data strings in Zapier for as simple as form collection fields.
I though must thank no code for getting me back into code! I am still a newbie but I am enjoying every moment of my javascript journey (is it a masochistic thing to say considering all the frustration with bugs?)