ESQLate
Dev tools
admin panel generator
SHOW HN2020
505points
79comments
#50of 3,028 in 2020
Top 2%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
12 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Idea: 11 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea that reduces admin panel work
From 3 comments
This is awesome! Saves so much work on building simple admin panels. I have experience in custom software development, and that's such a huge pile of work for developers it's…
saviorand on HNThank you so much I've wanted something like this for years but never invested the time into finding or building it.
xupybd on HNThat looks quite useful. The name's pretty clever, too. Tools like these are a viable, low-code (to use a hyped-up term) alternative to creating full-blown back-ends with all the…
BjoernKW on HN
Name and approach praised
From 2 comments
That looks quite useful. The name's pretty clever, too. Tools like these are a viable, low-code (to use a hyped-up term) alternative to creating full-blown back-ends with all the…
BjoernKW on HNGreat work! I once was a fan of custom well tailored DSL's for each tool. However, nowadays I really like the current direction of providing a lot of tooling with only SQL…
cube2222 on HN
Objections
Authentication not handled by the tool
From 1 comment
Authentication is not handled at all. Given it is a project with a front and back end (using a REST interface between) I think the correct approach is to do authentication on a…
mattatkeyboard on HN
Setup instructions did not work for one commenter
From 2 comments
Super neat idea and tool! I tried to clone it and run it locally, but it doesn't run. Tried with both yarn and npm. ``` > node-sass src/index.scss > public/index.css sh: 1:…
gavinray on HNcould you check the code ? i think esqlate-server is .gitignored
sandGorgon on HN
UI config in JSON is unappealing
From 1 comment
Good, but, I don't want to write UI configs in JSON. Making the UI should be as minimally difficult as the rest of the app makes tasks.
howmayiannoyyou on HN
Requests
Support for one-to-many and many-to-many relationships
From 1 comment
Interesting. How would you make this to support one-to-many/many-to-many relationships?
trungdq88 on HN
Authentication via OpenID
From 1 comment
This looks really useful. How is authentication and authorization handled? Can I connect it to my Openid provider?
_frkl on HN
Store admin panel configuration in a database
From 1 comment
Why not have the admin panels configuration stored in a database itself instead of json? And use the admin panels to add more admin panels...
janci on HN
Questions
How does it prevent SQL injection
From 1 comment
Interesting idea. Are you doing anything to protect against sql injection attacks?
jimmar on HN
How it differs from Redash
From 1 comment
It looks excellent! But I know https://redash.io already and used it in my last business - does this do something different? I'm always hungry for better SQL business admin tools…
mattbee on HN
Alternatives named
react-admin
From 1 comment
This looks pretty interesting! If anyone is looking for a tool to build a full fledge Back Office I warmly recommend react-admin (https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin/). Been…
Rowern on HN
PostgREST
From 1 comment
Another worthy mention (not FE, but also exploiting power of sql): https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest "PostgREST serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL…
xwowsersx on HN
Hasura
From 1 comment
You might also find Hasura interesting for instant GraphQL with Postgres: https://hasura.io/
hadem on HN
Metabase
From 1 comment
Metabase?
fulldecent2 on HN
Adminer
From 1 comment
I use adminer for this. https://www.adminer.org/ It's a single PHP file, and does everything I need.
milankragujevic on HN
Django Admin
From 1 comment
I think forestadmin.com / jetadmin.io are the SQL introspection equivalent of the Django Admin. Both are commercial products though.
cdrx on HN