Switching reason · UI & usability · Causes churn
Evaluated Budibase and Appsmith, rebuilt the tool in React in half the time
1 source thread · first seen 2022-01
Summary
A full-time developer needing quick internal tooling tried Budibase and Appsmith, made little progress, and built the same thing faster in React. They found the experience disappointing compared with older RAD tools.
- Affects
- full-time developer building internal tooling
- Workaround
- Built the tool by hand in React
- Switched to or considered
- React
Evidence
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“I made no serious progress, then threw together what I had in mind in React in half the time”