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I'm a founder of Appsmith that has already been mentioned here. It's an open source project to help you build CRUD UI on top on any database(MySQL, Postgres included) or API. We give UI components to create forms, charts, tables, etc.

GitHub link: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

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It looks great. So impressive.

I am going through the "Create Standup Application" tutorial.

Did u use a specific library to add the hints/popups or is it all manually patched in?

Thanks! We built it custom because we needed some specific interactions. You can find the code here: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/tree/release/app/cli...

Library might be an overkill I guess. It is an absolute positioned element. There is a config for each step as to what to show at each step in the popup. The animation at the end makes use of https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-web

This is really nice. Just what I was looking for, as I was suffering from CRUD fatigue

I've just looked into Appsmith and it seems like a fantastic solution! Thanks! :)

We also like appsmith quite a bit: it is simple and just works.

I was just going to mention Appsmith. Great tool!

Appsmith looks incredible thank you for sharing.

It reminds me of Visual Basic 6, in a good way.

Very Nice Job !!

Do you plan to include GraphQL queries ?

Thanks! Yes native Graphql will be coming soon. Right now you can use POST queries to connect to GraphQL endpoints

Good to know that ! Appsmith is my goto to create tools for my dev team starting from now !! Another last thing, can you provide a simple docker-compose instead of the internet install script which can be a headache for devops teams ? Thank you

Really glad to hear that!

About your suggestion, I've created an issue for this. We can discuss how we can help make things easier to setup, with the team. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/issues/3853

Hey kmwr, I'm the maintainer of Appsmith. The install script downloads and configures the docker-compose.yml file underneath the hood. It also allows users to configure SSL, setup encryption keys etc which would otherwise need to be done manually.

I understand that in order to have a repeatable installation process (as per Devops best practices), you'd like to have a single configuration file instead. We are working on some Helm charts for this very purpose.

For now, you can go through the process of installing Appsmith via the script and then use the generated files as a template in your Terraform/Ansible scripts.

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