As someone who's been building websites for 15 years, I can't say enough good things about this trend. I work primarily with early stage startups, often pre-product, building prototypes and V1s. The primary objective of the teams I work on is to validate product strategy, which requires moving quickly to de-risk initial development and iterate.

The past few years has completely changed the way I execute this strategy. Leaning heavily on products like these that allow us to develop software with very little or sometimes no code at all. It's nuts what you can build in a few days.

Discovering Rails in 2009 was the last big shift for me in this way, with tools like scaffolding to build out the skeleton of any dynamic CRUD section in a few seconds. Still, it wasn't uncommon to subsequently spend days or weeks getting specific sections of the site to reach parity with designs.

Some people talk about how this trend is a threat to web developers like me. While it's true that it's never been easier for anyone to build high-quality dynamic websites, that position completely overlooks the benefits for traditional web developers. This new toolchain is like having superpowers for a very specific type of development. Pairing that with solid knowledge of web fundamentals and the ability to "grow up" beyond the limitations of the system is a recipe for delivering work faster than ever before. For most early-stage startups, fast & cheap is #1, but if you can deliver quality on top of that, you're golden.