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I have heard about Appsmith but never used it myself. Anybody have used Appsmith for this purpose and can share personal experience?
by vasili111 3y ago
I have heard about Appsmith but never used it myself. Anybody have used Appsmith for this purpose and can share personal experience?
- speedgoose 3y agoIt’s fine for quick prototyping and internal applications.
- vasili111 3y agoWhat you do not like in it? Can you suggest better alternatives?
- speedgoose 3y agoI haven’t used it for a while as I stopped using low code tools since ChatGPT’s release, but I remember: - the final application is a bit slow to load, there is a lot of code. - it uses mongodb internally. I don’t like having mongodb on my stacks. - the docker and kubernetes deployments were not following best practices. They ran everything, even mongodb and redis, in a stateful container with a process manager inside the container. - version controlling the apps wasn’t trivial. - some features weren’t open source so I had to quickly hack them again. I found retool, proprietary, to be better if you can afford it.
- mgummelt 3y agoHow do you use ChatGPT to write CRUD apps? Do you mean Github Copilot?
- speedgoose 3y agoI use them both. I use ChatGPT to do the big parts like the SQL schema and some boilerplate. It works better in Python with fastAPI than Rust with Axum though.
- mgummelt 3y agoCool. How do you use it to generate the frontend CRUD interfaces?
- speedgoose 3y agoI go with React and use GitHub copilot more but ChatGPT can do the big or more advanced components. It’s a lot of manual work still.
- samuell 3y agoThanks, I'll check it out!