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I think I have a .railsrc file similar to your settings

Are you a fellow Avo user yourself?

yup. You should! The founder is also a great guy who cares about the Open Source community as well

In theory it does. The thing with ActionText is that it adds some HTML to the content, but in theory it should work.

Hmmm... My responsible developer gut tells me to redo it in React so you don't import StimulusJS just to render one editor. It's like having jQuery as a dependency in a React project.

Let's open an issue and discuss it there. I never used diagrams and that library, but if I see a couple of other implementations, maybe it can be a drop-in...

Thank you for your kind words. A rising tide lifts all boats!

I'd use the Rhino Editor for that. It's based on TipTap and is very extendable. I used it in a few projects and loved it.

Yup. I agree. It's going to be hard to make a dent in the JS world, but it's coming back!

So awesome to see this on the first page. Thanks everyone!

The JS side is made in StimulusJS. You can take it, it's MIT. I haven't worked with python and don't have plans to port it to React or anything else. If you do start work on it, I can guide you though the process if you need a hand...

There's definitely some movement here. People have started to see that the promises of other newer stacks and programming languages haven't materialized.

We'd love to hear your input on how you'd model the database for a Kanban board.

Mike is an inspiration to me and my project!

You probably heard the phrase "made by developers for developers", so I won't bore you to death with it, but that's the gist of it. I probably built 100 admin panels in the past and I know what I would need in one, so I built a lot of "escape hatches" into Avo so you can extend it and create your own thing.

Great to hear! Let me know if you run into issues.

Nothing really beats Rails. Use something like Jumpstart (jumpstartrails.com) and Avo (https://avohq.io) and you scaffold a full consumer-ready app in literally a few hours.

The thing that bugs me the most with Next.JS and the whole JAMStack movement is that, yeah, you get from "git clone" to deployed on Vercel in two minutes, but if you need to create real app features like a sturdy admin, accounts, authorization, proper asset management, CI/CD, it takes a whole lotta time. I'm not even touching the most common app features. I'm speaking from experience, from building a Next.JS app for about a year.

Most Next apps out there are incomplete with the worst freaking user experience. Insert any other JS framework or hosting provider in the place of Next.JS and Vercel.

Of course, this is a generalisation, not all Next apps are that bad.

Using Rails is like a cheat-code in dev term.

Next time check out Avo. It integrates perfectly with Jumpstart (or any Rails app) and helps you create a back-office app in no-time.

https://avohq.io

Hey. I'm Adrian, author of Avo. Avo is similar to Refine but for Ruby on Rails.

It helps developers create CRUD-like applications such as internal tools, admin panels, Content Management Systems and user-facing apps.

I love seeing more and more movement in this space.

https://avohq.io

Laravel has Nova, Django has Django Admin, and now, Rails has Avo.

https://avohq.io

*I am the author of Avo

Definitely one of the best and one that's still on my playlist! Good job!

I think one important aspect is that you, personally, need to have a following. It's the same as in other areas like blogging and vlogging. You have to create yourself a persona that people will follow for some reason and then they will consume your content.

I love it that there are so many Factorio fans around here.

A bit dramatic and provocative. But a nice way to go in-depth with the pros and cons of a framework.

I've been using it for about two years now and it really made support easier. Sojan and the team do an amazing job with Chatwoot!

I hired my first contractor through his contributions on our product.

We talked and hit it off instantly. He's very passionate about the product and when he mentioned he is looking for work, I stepped up and hired him.

I'm so very happy about getting him onboard.

Guys, amazing work you're doing with Payload. I think it's pushing the way we build apps forward. I love the energy, but you should communicate more sincerely. In your intro video you say "frameworks like Laravel and Rails can be great on building the back-end of your complex apps, but then you're stuck having to build the entirety of your admin panel completely by yourself", and that's untrue. There are solutions out there that help you not build it by yourself.

Again, great energy, but don't lie!

Yeah. I know.

I am the author of a similar source available package and selling to developers has been such a painful experience. They (we) have one of the most privileged situations when it comes to finances but they are so reticent in buying software. It's not that the software might not be good, or might not help them, but "it should just be free".

That has been my experience. Since my indie developer endeavour, I changed the way I see other solopreneurs and their businesses.

Let's support each other through projects like these and these types of licensing and stop taking things for granted.

As a solo developer I get asked a lot on sales calls "How many paying customers do you have?"/"Are there paying customers?" and other similar questions to evaluate the size of my business.

I guess it's fine. It's natural to know the partner you're about to take on has the incentive to continue developing their business and still have an "alive" product in the future.

Not sure what documentation should I write about that. Just build it like I do in the videos or from the docs site and the result is the actual website . Done!

Haha. Your statement is 100% correct!

That's not a bad idea. I'd do that if I didn't have to offer support. Are there products like that where after-sale support is optional?