Switching reason · UI & usability · Causes churn
Low-code builder slower than hand-coding a simple internal tool in React
2 source threads · first seen 2022-01 · last seen 2023-03
Summary
A full-time developer evaluated Appsmith and Budibase for quick internal tooling, made little progress, and rebuilt the idea in React in half the time.
- Affects
- full-time developer
- Switched to or considered
- React
Evidence
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“I spent my next few days building the tool I wanted in React, and it was a breeze”
“I made no serious progress, then threw together what I had in mind in React in half the time”