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Lowdefy looks great. I'm currently looking for something like Django Admin that isn't necessarily a part of Django (I'm an Elixir dev myself). Have you used Lowdefy extensively? Pros and cons? Limitations? Are you involved with the project itself?

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Yes co-founder here. Been building apps with it for 2 years now. Its really powerful for building data intensive UIs. Have built full scale dashboard solutions for enterprises, buys with a large CRM like 5 companies combined into one system large. Also quite far along building an MRP on it for a small factory. The flexibility is what really makes it super. Client says the UX is not great for a specific task, no problem. Let’s imagine something better. Also scales well when bringing on new devs in the team coz its such a structured way of writing UIs.

Limitations, definitely needs a lot more connections for other DBs etc. Also we need first class support for auth and athorization, currently bring your own openid connect provider.

Hey just found out about LowDefy by reading comments and I’m completely blown away by how you can build webapps just by using YAML

I’m definitely going to try this for one of my projects

Hi, yes often we are also really surprised. One could say its like writing a query, we took a lot of inspiration from MongoDBs query language. To understand how this is all possible, in short, react components just use props, so just a json tree should already get you to some app description. Then, you just need to express logic, recalculate and update. To find out how we express logic in yaml, how a look at Lowdefy operators -https://docs.lowdefy.com/operators Looking forward to seeing what you can build! Let us know if you need any help!

Just a heads up that your landing page is having trouble loading this asset on an otherwise good looking page:

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Lowdefy loading icon just dutifully hops up and down, left and right.

Hi. Thanks for letting me know! Fixed it. Was a A/B test that went wrong.

Sure definitely Thanks for replying btw :)

You might want to look at React Admin or Forest Admin (never used these myself, but AFAIK they're the main offerings in this space)

I am not a fan of Forest Admin because they basically force you to use their hosted admin panel, and dump your whole database schema to their service.

Strapi.io is nice too

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