NocoDB
Hey Everybody 👋 👋
We are really excited to show NocoDB on Dev.to forum today.
NocoDB is a free & open source Airtable alternative.
The Open Source Airtable Alternative
NocoDB is the fastest and easiest way to build databases online
Website • Discord • Community • Twitter • Reddit • Documentation
Join Our Community
Installation
Docker with SQLite
docker run -d --name noco
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/
-p 8080:8080
nocodb/nocodb:latest
Docker with PG
docker run -d --name noco
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/
-p 8080:8080
# replace with your pg connection string
-e NC_DB="pg://host.docker.internal:5432?u=root&p=password&d=d1"
# replace with a random secret
-e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010"
nocodb/nocodb:latest
Auto-upstall
Auto-upstall is a single command that sets up NocoDB on a server for production usage. Behind the scenes it auto-generates docker-compose for you.
bash <(curl -sSL http://install.nocodb.com/noco.sh) <(mktemp)
Auto-upstall does the following : 🕊
- 🐳 Automatically installs all pre-requisites like docker, docker-compose
- 🚀 Automatically installs NocoDB with PostgreSQL, Redis, Minio…
Just six weeks ago we launched NocoDB and NocoDB now has :
- 660,000+ Docker downloads!
- 13,600+ Github stars! 💫 💫 💫
- 1,100+ strong discord community!
- And by Runa Capital's analysis, NocoDB has been the fastest growing open source project for Q2.
- Evan You - Creator of Vue.js also tweeted about us! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Did we anticipate this coming ?
Surely not. And as like many of you tinkerers, we were curious-anxious going into launch day. However, we are totally overwhelmed by the response of community. And would love to share more on the product & the journey here in Dev.to
How it works
docker run -p 8080:8080 nocodb/nocodb
or
npx create-nocodb-app
NocoDB simply works by connecting to your existing databases and transforming them into a smart spreadsheet interface! This allows you to collaborate just like google/airtable spreadsheets with your teams. And we also allow programmatic access to theses spreadsheet with REST & GraphQL APIs!
NocoDB currently works with
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- SQLite
- Amazon Aurora & MariaDB databases.
Also NocoDB's app store allows you to build business workflows on views with combination of Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Twilio, Whatsapp, Email & any 3rd party APIs too. Plus NocoDB provides programmatic access to APIs so that you can build integrations with Zapier / Integromat and custom applications too.
FEATURES :
Rich Spreadsheet Interface :
- ⚡ Sort, search, filter, hide columns with ease
- ⚡ Create Views : Grid, Gallery, Kanban, Gantt, Form
- ⚡ Share Views : public & password protected
- ⚡ Personal & locked Views
- ⚡ Upload images to cells (Works with S3, Minio, GCP, Azure & many more)!!
- ⚡ Roles : Owner, Creator, Editor, Commenter, Viewer, Commenter, Custom.
- ⚡ Access Control : Fine-grained access control even to column level.
- ⚡ API tokens to integrate with n8n, Zapier & Integromat.
Automations & App store :
- ⚡ Chat : Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord, Mattermost
- ⚡ Email : SMTP, SES, Mailchimp
- ⚡ SMS : Twilio
- ⚡ Any 3rd Party APIs
Programmatic API access via :
- ⚡ REST APIs (Swagger)
- ⚡ GraphQL APIs.
- ⚡ Includes JWT Authentication & Social Auth
Please join our community
📣 Github : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
📣 Discord : https://discord.gg/5RgZmkW
📣 Twitter : https://twitter.com/nocodb
🔦 NocoDB's journey so far..
We open sourced two API solutions before NocoDB :
- ⚡ A no-code REST APIs generator for any MySQL DB. ~4000+ Github Stars. This was a hobby project & had no GUI. 📈
- ⚡ A low-code REST-GraphQL APIs generator for any database with GUI. Used by 100s of companies. Including fortune 500s & publicly trading companies. 📈
The thing that surprised us the most was that even non-developers started using our API products & rooting for us. 🚀 🚀 .. This made us to rethink & combine the power of our 2 API products then transform them into something better.
🎯 Why we building this ?
Most internet businesses equip themselves with either spreadsheet or a database to solve their business needs. Spreadsheets are used by a hundreds of millions humans collaboratively every single day. However, we are way off working at similar speeds on databases which are way more powerful tools when it comes to computing. Attempts to solve this with SaaS offerings has meant horrible access controls, vendor lockin, data lockin, abrupt price changes & most importantly a glass ceiling on what's possible in future.
❤️ Our Mission :
Our mission is to provide the most powerful no-code interface for databases which is open source to every single internet business in the world. This would not only democratise access to a powerful computing tool but also bring forth a billion+ people who will have radical tinkering-and-building abilities on internet.
💊 And.. There is.. One last thing.. this makes it insanely good :
NocoDB can be run from a single node.js file with just SIX lines of code in it! This minimalism means NocoDB runs even on the smallest of servers. Not just AWS, DigitalOcean, Heroku but also in A2Hosting & similar.
(async () => {
const app = require('express')();
const {Noco} = require("nocodb");
app.use(await Noco.init({}));
console.log(`Visit : localhost:${process.env.PORT}/dashboard`)
app.listen(process.env.PORT);
})()
Hope you loved it. ❤️
Please join our community at :
📣 Github : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
📣 Discord : https://discord.gg/5RgZmkW
📣 Twitter : https://twitter.com/nocodb
Would love to hear your usecases & feedbacks. 🙌
The Open Source Airtable Alternative
NocoDB is the fastest and easiest way to build databases online
Website • Discord • Community • Twitter • Reddit • Documentation
Join Our Community
Installation
Docker with SQLite
docker run -d --name noco
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/
-p 8080:8080
nocodb/nocodb:latest
Docker with PG
docker run -d --name noco
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/
-p 8080:8080
# replace with your pg connection string
-e NC_DB="pg://host.docker.internal:5432?u=root&p=password&d=d1"
# replace with a random secret
-e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010"
nocodb/nocodb:latest
Auto-upstall
Auto-upstall is a single command that sets up NocoDB on a server for production usage. Behind the scenes it auto-generates docker-compose for you.
bash <(curl -sSL http://install.nocodb.com/noco.sh) <(mktemp)
Auto-upstall does the following : 🕊
- 🐳 Automatically installs all pre-requisites like docker, docker-compose
- 🚀 Automatically installs NocoDB with PostgreSQL, Redis, Minio…
Happy Tinkering,
Team NocoDB
Top comments (24)
I went to give you a star on github and turns out I had already starred it before. Maybe I stumbled across the repo few months ago, when I was searching for a self hosted version of airtable for a project I was working on.
Amazing feature set, Visuals are nice too. I will definitively use this in next project I need something like this.
Is self-hosted part always going to be free (and feature complete) in future?
Are you going to provide a paid, managed by you, instance in future for those who don't want to bother with hassles of self hosting?
Looks good.. forking :)
Thank you - your contributions are welcome.
github.com/nocodb/nocodb#contributing
Great job guys. This was a much needed one. All the best.
Look great !
Any plans to support mongoDb to allow me to try in m'y company?
Its requested by a lot of people & we plan to have mongo. But just not yet :) We plan to make the current version stable and I believe mongo will be in some respects easier/
Agree with u 🙂
Sounds pretty good. Specially the six line thing for constrained environments.
Best of luck with the post launch. I'll be checking it soon!
Thank you!
Amazing @o1lab and @pranavcbalan ! I made a video to show my appreciation for your hard work and contribute my learnings back to the open source community.
🎥 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=QGpTSpvxTSU
Thanks a tonne @mfts for making the video - we really appreciate the video and the overview.
Just to say: thank you. Given that I don't contribute to JS projects at least I can share the post
Thank you means much.
Our stack is in typescript, vuejs & javascript. We intend to convert most JS to TS soon.
Amazing! I will try use nocoDB for my next project!
In built support for multiple database! I can just plug my existing mysql database! Wow!
Yes! For any doubts please hopin to our discord : discord.gg/5RgZmkW
Awesome budiness-tool 🚀🚀🚀