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I tried to like what I originally saw when trying out ToolJet and loved how easy it was to setup, (docker with postgres) but encountered way too many bugs to ma

I tried to like what I originally saw when trying out ToolJet and loved how easy it was to setup, (docker with postgres) but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization. The biggest one would be that I would setup a query for a component and then I would come back to it later, usually after some kind of page refresh and the query would just not appear in the editor anymore. Sometimes I'd refresh it again and it would appear again, but it was just way too flaky to be considered for any kind of commitment to building tooling with it. And there's no chance in hell that non-technical internal would be able to build anything useful with it; but to be fair, I tried other tools and they weren't that impressive either even if they were less buggy. The entire "low code" thing just feels like hype as soon as you need to do anything non-trivial like read data from a large table with multiple joins and need to implement server-side pagination, for example. I'm just more productive writing Rails templates using basic MVC with Rails Admin.

kriztle 4y ago
>but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization. Was this recently or a few months ago? majority of the reported bugs were fixed before the launch of v1.0 (Feb 2021 ).
- rubyist5eva 4y ago
  Within the last few months, I believe it was version 1.6 or 1.8.
foxbee 4y ago
What other tools did you try?
- rubyist5eva 4y ago
  I tried retool, tooljet and appsmith.
  - foxbee 4y ago
    Ahhh.You should try Budibase if you have time. I'm the cofounder. It's open source and a little different than the other options you've mentioned. Below is the repo: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase https://github.com/Budibase/budibase Website: https://budibase.com https://budibase.com
    - rubyist5eva 4y ago
      Hi, we were going to try it - but self hosting was a requirement and setting up CouchDB for it was a dealbreaker for our team.
      - foxbee 4y ago
        You can self host Budibase, and use other external data sources too.
      - jinen83 4y ago
        shameless plug: i am co-founder of DronaHQ and we have recently launched our self-hosted version of internal tool builder & all it needs is a single docker installation to get started. Here is the website: www.dronahq.com would love your feedback incase if you are trying.
    - cjbprime 4y ago
      Took a look at the website -- why do you have a page which pretends to objectively review competitors and then decides that your project is the best app development tool without acknowledging the obvious conflict of interest? https://budibase.com/blog/open-source-low-code-platforms/ https://budibase.com/blog/open-source-low-code-platforms/
  - gervwyk 4y ago
    I’m also going to jump in here and say try Lowdefy https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy - co-founder here. We take a different angle and believe that low code should still work like code. We focus on a developer first approach.

kriztle 4y ago

>but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization. Was this recently or a few months ago? majority of the reported bugs were fixed before the launch of v1.0 (Feb 2021 ).

rubyist5eva 4y ago
Within the last few months, I believe it was version 1.6 or 1.8.

foxbee 4y ago

What other tools did you try?

rubyist5eva 4y ago
I tried retool, tooljet and appsmith.
- foxbee 4y ago
  Ahhh.You should try Budibase if you have time. I'm the cofounder. It's open source and a little different than the other options you've mentioned. Below is the repo: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase https://github.com/Budibase/budibase Website: https://budibase.com https://budibase.com
  - rubyist5eva 4y ago
    Hi, we were going to try it - but self hosting was a requirement and setting up CouchDB for it was a dealbreaker for our team.
    - foxbee 4y ago
      You can self host Budibase, and use other external data sources too.
    - jinen83 4y ago
      shameless plug: i am co-founder of DronaHQ and we have recently launched our self-hosted version of internal tool builder & all it needs is a single docker installation to get started. Here is the website: www.dronahq.com would love your feedback incase if you are trying.
  - cjbprime 4y ago
    Took a look at the website -- why do you have a page which pretends to objectively review competitors and then decides that your project is the best app development tool without acknowledging the obvious conflict of interest? https://budibase.com/blog/open-source-low-code-platforms/ https://budibase.com/blog/open-source-low-code-platforms/
- gervwyk 4y ago
  I’m also going to jump in here and say try Lowdefy https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy - co-founder here. We take a different angle and believe that low code should still work like code. We focus on a developer first approach.