HACKER Q&A
📣 rlawson

Any low code frameworks on top of Django?


Django is already pretty low code but there's a lot of times I'd just like to write a quick SQL snippet, display a nice grid and then define another couple of SQL snippets for handling actions on the grid. I can scaffold this out pretty quickly with standard MVT but is there a simpler way?

  👤 aitchnyu Accepted Answer ✓
Baserow uses Django as a superweapon. They use django db libs to generate the underlying database tables via a web UI. They take full advantage of dynamically generated models to query them too.

And of course I have my own idea for a web spreadsheet. The tables can be generated via UI and we can add small scripts to validate, filter, scheduled tasks etc. When stuff gets too complex for a low-code platform, we can drop down a layer of abstraction or migrate to traditional Django. It can reuse other Django apps like those CMS apps. Making a prototype of this.

https://baserow.io/blog/how-baserow-lets-users-generate-djan...

👤 nnadams
I'm also interested in something like this. I've been considering writing one because I already start most projects with djangobuilder.io, which generates a project, models, and test skeleton. I've found that very useful when I have a lot of models.
👤 timwis
django admin? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/contrib/admin/
👤 tomdekan
Regarding accelerating UI, I’ve been building my UI for my product (https://amazing.photos) using Webflow and Django.

I convert all Webflow code into Django templates and neat JavaScript.

This approach with Webflow and Django is around 5-8x faster for me.

👤 bjourne
I don't think anything is faster than django-admin. If you invest time in understanding how it works then you can accomplish a lot in very little time. Results are of course not perfect, but good enough for many quick-and-dirty projects.
👤 greenie_beans
datasette? https://datasette.io/