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   by gervwyk 5y ago

   Interesting! I did not even know about NNTP.
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   Thanks HN: User dangrossman for creating and running HN Replies

   9 points by gervwyk 5y ago|2 comments
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   by gervwyk 5y ago

   Cool post! I've also been thinking about this for a while and agree with your advice. Have also been on both sides of the fence and often feel "out of place" sharing my project. However, I try to ask myself, can a really cont
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   by gervwyk 5y ago

   This looks promising! I’ve been waiting for something like this. Will give it a try. How would you hydrate the app with data while you dev? Feels like adding some storybook like features to test components could be useful.
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   by gervwyk 5y ago

   It's an interesting thought. I'll definitely spend some time to consider how this could work. Although, writing apps in yaml or json works really well currently. We mostly express logic through Lowdefy operators. We like supportin
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   by gervwyk 5y ago

   We've been building dashboards in YAML for a while now using Lowdefy - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy It is very flexible. Will publish more examples soon!
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   by gervwyk 5y ago

   This is very interesting! Working through the docs now and I'm enjoying the schema, and I've came up with similar ideas regarding data validation / generation in the past. It's nice to find a project like this! Thanks! I
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   by gervwyk 5y ago

   First off, disclaimer, co-founder of Lowdefy [0] and shameless plug. But feel ok since it is on topic. We’ve built many back-office tools for customers and the bulk of the engineering time goes into understanding the problem and tranlating
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   by gervwyk 5y ago

   Was this post removed from the frontpage because of it's title starting with a number?? Can’t we change the title?
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Thanks :) It's Low-de-fi
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    First off, disclaimer, co-founder of Lowdefy [0] and shameless plug. But feel ok since it is on topic. I 100% agree with you on this. We’ve built many back-office tools for customers and the bulk of the engineering time goes into understand
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Here's the clickable links: - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26267891
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    Lowdefy – Now has SQL, OpenID Connect, Custom Code, Docker, Serverless Support

    5 points by gervwyk 5y ago|1 comments
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Excellent comment and breakdown! 100% agree most apps should be simple, if you think / design on a “page” level, most apps actually are simple. SPA easily confuse designers and often users, but both SPA and multi-page apps (MPA) has it
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Although we currently support MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, and Amazon Redshift, SendGrid, Http requests, Google sheets and S3. We started by building apps with MongoDB and the aggregation framework really allo
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    This is a really cool use case! Especially with for environmental and ethical conscious brands. We sort of do the same thing with QR codes in a factory at the moment where we trace production batches, stock management and R&D test data
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Really looking forward to new server side components and suspense. Also, kudos the the React / facebook team for building such an exceptional framework. React has really enabled small teams like ours to build large applications and eve
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Nice! GitSense is really cool. I recently enjoyed this dashboard [0], which is more basic and focused on tracking project popularity. Is there a way for me to add Lowdefy [1] to GitSense? [0] - https://osschott.metabaseapp.com&#x
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Congrats on the launch! This is really cool. We created Lowdefy [0] to build similar apps but with a "no-gui" approach. I have great respect for how much work this is. Even the website looks great! [0] - https://github.
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    I must agree, their reach must be insane! Although my last question was like 3 years ago, I do visit it at least twice a week for quick answers. I feel like most “often asked” questions has been answered. I very seldomly find that creating
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Essentially we've written an engine which renders the YAML / JSON as a React app. So the backend serves the json config to the frontend which renders and interprets the app at runtime. There are 3 parts to the front-end, operators
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Thanks! We are having great fun building it and making it useful for others! Please reach out if you have any questions: https://discord.gg/WmcJgXt
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    We’ve created https://lowdefy.com and open-sourced it. Over the past 5 years we’ve been building custom B2B and back office web applications. Nothing in the market had the level of customization we required both from a technical
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Probably going to get downvoted for this, but I feel like MongoDB should get more love in these subs. We use it all the time and their aggreations can get really advanced and perform well to the level where we run most analytics on demand.
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Great to hear! Looking forward to your feedback, we are currently finishing auth docs, and we'll focus on some additional examples and tutorials soon. You are welcome to join our discord channel - https://discord.gg/VR2
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    We've been asking ourselves the same question and trying to figure it out. We currently have some developers and non-developer users, but the mimimum requirement seems to be that the builder understands the data and is proficient in wr
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Check out https://lowdefy.com - we recently open-sourced it. We’ve been building apps with Lowdefy for customers for a while now and very seldomly need to setup an API endpoint for a task. Often surprised how flexible it is, in
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Totally. Most developers stop at decoupling the ui components, backend connections etc. It is not very common to see developers extract the application logic to be configurable from these components. Logically loaded React classes is a comm
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Totally agree with this. For example hiding config in a GUI creates an excessive amount to problems at scale. The magic of find, replace, cope and paste is at the core of why code works well at scale. Writing less code should always be top
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    by gervwyk 5y ago

    Well said. This is exactly what we find when building applications with Lowdefy [0]. Because we are writing applications in a “schema”, implementations becomes more and more consistent. To the point where if I pick up an complex application