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When I see low-code, I find myself looking for the Visual Basic of Web. If I could drag and drop a few pre-made controls (including a database control), double

When I see low-code, I find myself looking for the Visual Basic of Web. If I could drag and drop a few pre-made controls (including a database control), double click to handle a few events, and have a CRUD app, I would be thrilled. Unfortunately, I still have not found that yet.

petersirka 4y ago
That's possible with Total.js. We offer a lot of open source apps like Flow, UI Builder (it will be released soon officially - missing only the website) and Total DB (it will be released this week - missing only the website). Total DB: https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb UI Builder: https://uibuilder.totaljs.com/ https://uibuilder.totaljs.com/ We're preparing tutorials and you will see that it's possible to do it very easily :)
- tluyben2 4y ago
  Nice work. Is there an overview of which components are oss and which are not?
  - petersirka 4y ago
    All components are open source under MIT license: https://github.com/totaljs/flowstreamcomponents/tree/main/components https://github.com/totaljs/flowstreamcomponents/tree/main/co... Of course, we have some premium components (under the MIT license) that are hidden. Also you can create Flow components directly in Flow, that's amazing!
omnibrain 4y ago
Coming from Delphi, I always think the same... You could check Budibase, I build a simple customer portal for one of our customers with it. Now I build a "real" project with Supabase for the backend and Vue.js + Quasar for the frontend. And that comes damn near this vision. Only a dragn'n'drop GUI editor is missing, but with the near zero reload-times of modern vue.js with Vite editing the GUI in code comes near. There are of course several "frameworks" for Delphi, that offer "building webapps with Delphi and then compiling it to JS & Javascript, but I decided not to go into this direction, because Delphi paradigmns are no good fit for the web and I doubt I'm gonna find anyone else if I'm going to need more manpower. For Delphi: * TMS Webcore https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmswebcore.asp https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmswebcore.asp * uniGUI http://www.unigui.com/ http://www.unigui.com/ Delphi Inspired Pascal IDE for the Web: * Elevate Web Builder https://www.elevatesoft.com/home https://www.elevatesoft.com/home * Quartex Pascal https://quartexdeveloper.com/ https://quartexdeveloper.com/ * Smart Mobile Studio https://smartmobilestudio.com/ https://smartmobilestudio.com/
- spmurrayzzz 4y ago
  > Only a dragn'n'drop GUI editor is missing I've been giving Storybook[1] a shot to solve this problem. Works pretty well from scratch on new projects, but importing existing Vue components, especially from large third party component libraries, has proven a little onerous so far for me. But maybe you'll have a little more luck with Vue/Quasar. [1] https://storybook.js.org/ https://storybook.js.org/
tjchear 4y ago
I actually have been wondering if we can skip drag and drop even, and build a CRUD app with a markdown like language.
Multrex 4y ago
Try OpenBlocks. I think is the most promising and fast developing low code tool. Better than appsmith, tooljet. https://openblocks.dev/ https://openblocks.dev/
- tluyben2 4y ago
  Is this related to Illa somehow? The UI builder looks very familiar.
  - Multrex 4y ago
    Not related with Illa. Entire different software. I believe it would be the next big thing because of the rapid features they add in compare with other tools.
    - tluyben2 4y ago
      Thanks, someone definitely was 'inspired' by the other. But yes, it looks impressive so far.
rubenfiszel 4y ago
You might want to give a try to windmill. open-source, self-hostable FaaS and app builder similar to retool. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
ryan_jiang 4y ago
Hi - PM from Retool here. Have you tried our product? Should be super easy ~5 min to spin up a table + form CRUD application for your database tables. Plus, we can be deployed on-premise with SSO and source control. https://retool.com/ https://retool.com/ Would love to hear what you think!
- capableweb 4y ago
  The demo video including writing (or customizing) SQL + doesn't seem to have any sort of graph/node interface at all. How is it related to Total.js / Node-RED? Seems to be a completely different tool.
ybouane 4y ago
Sktch.io does just that, create functionality visually including Database control, you should check it out.

petersirka 4y ago

That's possible with Total.js. We offer a lot of open source apps like Flow, UI Builder (it will be released soon officially - missing only the website) and Total DB (it will be released this week - missing only the website). Total DB: https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb UI Builder: https://uibuilder.totaljs.com/ https://uibuilder.totaljs.com/ We're preparing tutorials and you will see that it's possible to do it very easily :)

tluyben2 4y ago
Nice work. Is there an overview of which components are oss and which are not?
- petersirka 4y ago
  All components are open source under MIT license: https://github.com/totaljs/flowstreamcomponents/tree/main/components https://github.com/totaljs/flowstreamcomponents/tree/main/co... Of course, we have some premium components (under the MIT license) that are hidden. Also you can create Flow components directly in Flow, that's amazing!

omnibrain 4y ago

Coming from Delphi, I always think the same... You could check Budibase, I build a simple customer portal for one of our customers with it. Now I build a "real" project with Supabase for the backend and Vue.js + Quasar for the frontend. And that comes damn near this vision. Only a dragn'n'drop GUI editor is missing, but with the near zero reload-times of modern vue.js with Vite editing the GUI in code comes near. There are of course several "frameworks" for Delphi, that offer "building webapps with Delphi and then compiling it to JS & Javascript, but I decided not to go into this direction, because Delphi paradigmns are no good fit for the web and I doubt I'm gonna find anyone else if I'm going to need more manpower. For Delphi: * TMS Webcore https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmswebcore.asp https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmswebcore.asp * uniGUI http://www.unigui.com/ http://www.unigui.com/ Delphi Inspired Pascal IDE for the Web: * Elevate Web Builder https://www.elevatesoft.com/home https://www.elevatesoft.com/home * Quartex Pascal https://quartexdeveloper.com/ https://quartexdeveloper.com/ * Smart Mobile Studio https://smartmobilestudio.com/ https://smartmobilestudio.com/

spmurrayzzz 4y ago
> Only a dragn'n'drop GUI editor is missing I've been giving Storybook[1] a shot to solve this problem. Works pretty well from scratch on new projects, but importing existing Vue components, especially from large third party component libraries, has proven a little onerous so far for me. But maybe you'll have a little more luck with Vue/Quasar. [1] https://storybook.js.org/ https://storybook.js.org/

tjchear 4y ago

I actually have been wondering if we can skip drag and drop even, and build a CRUD app with a markdown like language.

Multrex 4y ago

Try OpenBlocks. I think is the most promising and fast developing low code tool. Better than appsmith, tooljet. https://openblocks.dev/ https://openblocks.dev/

tluyben2 4y ago
Is this related to Illa somehow? The UI builder looks very familiar.
- Multrex 4y ago
  Not related with Illa. Entire different software. I believe it would be the next big thing because of the rapid features they add in compare with other tools.
  - tluyben2 4y ago
    Thanks, someone definitely was 'inspired' by the other. But yes, it looks impressive so far.

rubenfiszel 4y ago

You might want to give a try to windmill. open-source, self-hostable FaaS and app builder similar to retool. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

ryan_jiang 4y ago

Hi - PM from Retool here. Have you tried our product? Should be super easy ~5 min to spin up a table + form CRUD application for your database tables. Plus, we can be deployed on-premise with SSO and source control. https://retool.com/ https://retool.com/ Would love to hear what you think!

capableweb 4y ago
The demo video including writing (or customizing) SQL + doesn't seem to have any sort of graph/node interface at all. How is it related to Total.js / Node-RED? Seems to be a completely different tool.

ybouane 4y ago

Sktch.io does just that, create functionality visually including Database control, you should check it out.