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I don't understand why there is such negativity about this. They state it is not perfect and it is work in progress near the bottom of intro.

What I like about this, is that it allows quickly to make simpler sites that can be edited. I don't want to program upload images ever again, or edit fields. Why do this?!

Anyhow, storage seems to be confusing some of you, they explain/document that here http://mavo.io/docs/storage/

I think this is neat idea and we really need to innovate and move past coding crud apps all the time. Developer bootcamps are proof we are not doing anything new.

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It is neat for sure, so are using appventor (blocks to build android apps)[1] and other shortcuts to build websites and apps.

The problem is that it says simple, while talking about Git for goodness sakes; commit permissions and such. It says no code. I disagree... you need to know HTML basics to even comprehend the Mavo way.

Why not just make a vanilla HTML page if that is all you need? HTML is not hard... and how is this moving us past CRUD?

In the storage docs they mention that you do not need to know Git to use Mavo. They simply use Github as a backend for storage. So a beginner would merely have to setup a Github account to get persistence for their app.

Right... here is a bit of a sarcastic retort: "just use this thing called Github. Don't worry that you have no idea what Git actually is... log on to Github and start saving stuff there. Commit you ask? Don't worry, don't code anything!"

> I don't understand why there is such negativity about this.

I'm not sure I'm reading the same comments as you. None of the ones I read seem overtly negative. Mine is the closest to negative and I explicitly said that I'm just trying to understand not criticize.

You may be reading into them too much. For example, the person saying it is like Angular 1.0 could be negative or very positive depending on your view of Angular.

Edit: I take that back. The one about "not a single line of code" is actually more negative than mine. Although it also happens to be true. That is code.

They are negative, that doesn't make you a bad person. All good.

"without a single line of programming code," the adjective is important.

I think some comments reflects that very similar things has been done for 10 years or so. And this don't seem to solve all problems, only a few of the problems.

It looks like you would end up with one html page per page in the site. And when you have 50 pages or more and decides to change the structure you would have to change all the pages. I'm not even sure the tool supports that, you might have to start with git and a standard html editor and change all files. Then you are back to editing html and have not gained much. For _very_ simple sites this might help and it does look very nice.

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