Budibase

March 30, 2024 | seedling, permanent

tags: Open Source

Framework #

Internal tools made easy. Budibase saves teams 100s of hours building tools that integrate seamlessly with any workflow. No coding experience required. https://budibase.com/

Low Code platform for creating internal tools, workflows, and admin panels in minutes. Supports:

PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
REST ,
Docker,
Kubernetes,
and more. Budibase, the low code platform you’ll enjoy using ⚡

github

Built with TypeScript and JavaScript

popular on <2023-07-03 Mon> 32k commits, and 18k stars

Philosophy #

Data -> Design-> Automate

Interacting with REST APIs #

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt_fypLWDhg&ab_channel=Budibase

Interacting with REST API option is powerful than database:

business logic can be placed safely behind APIs
frontend can just interact with APIs
Focus will be APIs
These APIs can be consumed in mobile applications as well

UI #

Drag and drop, padding alignment of data is possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERunqRgd0Ds&ab_channel=Budibase

Pricing #

https://budibase.com/pricing/

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They Host #

We host #

Deployment #

DigitalOcean #

Can be deployed easily to using Droplet. https://docs.budibase.com/docs/digitalocean

Plugins to extend the ecosystem #

https://github.com/Budibase/plugins

Writing data to database #

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZQNxwMk0es&ab_channel=Budibase

Use Cases #

By JAK

Good for creating proof of concept apps, MVP
Good for creating custom apps rapidly in enterprises
Building internal tools

Budibase vs Bubble #

youtube

Internal tool vs web app
good integration with databases with budibase, good for developers who has some idea but who wants to speedup
Bubble is good for people with no background of programming

Infrastructure as Code #

They are maintaining Ansible to deploy it on local datacenter ref, github ansible role

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