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Isn't this what frameworks like rails, grails and spring roo are for? They make creating a basic CRUD app trivial. If you just need a trivial app then use one o
by devs1010 15y ago
Isn't this what frameworks like rails, grails and spring roo are for? They make creating a basic CRUD app trivial. If you just need a trivial app then use one of these frameworks, anything more is obviously going to require customization on the backend code. I suppose there could be a niche for managed RAD (rapid application development) packages, or something like that, where they help people build an app using rails, or something, and then host it, but its not nearly as groundbreaking as seems to be suggested, these frameworks are fairly trivial to use as is to get basic CRUD functionality and if you need more customization then you're already moving out of the territory of having the backend as a service without having to pay custom development rates.
- mgkimsal 15y agoI've thought for a while about a service that would allow you to define a set of basic models/domains, including basic validation rules and relationships on them, then offer to generate the CRUD code, but in a variety of frameworks - grails, zendframework, rails, asp.net, django, etc. Beyond being a 'neat idea' though, I couldn't find any real use case for it.
- devs1010 15y agoYeah... the people who can make use of this sort of thing already would probably be able to do the steps of generating the code in the RAD framework so I just don't think there's much room to actually make money on something like this but maybe if integrated with something like Heroku it could have potential.