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Nagesh Pobbathi
Nagesh Pobbathi

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🤔How do you feel about low-code tools for technical users?

No/low code has been the rage with companies like Webflow and Bubble doing some great things. But they’re targeted towards non-technical users to build new, green field projects. Technical users have been hesitant to embrace them for reasons like code quality, broken workflow, etc.

I feel like lowcode can help technical users too by automating some of the most tedious tasks like building pixel-perfect UI, for example. Clean code would be a must-have, as well as preserving the dev workflow.

Does anybody have any requirements to embrace such a tool? What would be your cause for concern?

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Shrikant Dhayje

as per my case, i found people who use these types of services like wordpress or webflow and i offer them troubleshooting for solving there issue for them in future ( chargable ) and in most cases I Solve them easily because of knowledge of the issues like database connection error like can be solved by changing it's code

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jan-wagenaar

I agree on the maintainable. As with every software architecture, spaghetti code is just around the corner. This not the fault of low code platform but rather the users. I'm currently working with low code, I think it's a great way to speed up your design process. I see some critism below, but I'm doubting that all of you have experience in low/no code. It's not wrong, you should use what you like.

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CuriousDev

If you are a technical person (knowing how to use a programming language), I think you actually need a good reason to pick no-code/low-code tools, because it also adds complexity to the whole project, if your are still doing custom development.
Usually in a company you could give these to people doing more business stuff ("Citizen Developers") and letting the Software Developers handle the tasks, which cannot or should not be done with no-code/low-code. But maybe this is a different topic.

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Nagesh Pobbathi

Thanks Nate. Which tools do you use typically to generate code?

 
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Nagesh Pobbathi

Thanks Nate.

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Abelardus

Hi Nate, curious to know what tool you used to convert SQL scheme. Thanks!

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Nagesh Pobbathi

Yes, agree.

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Shrikant Dhayje

also we can make an alternative of any open-source alsoby this