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by mohanarpit 1440 days ago
Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Appsmith.

The primary reason for creating Appsmith was because, as a backend engineer, I didn't enjoy mucking around with HTML/CSS just to build admin panels. Hence, we created a way to build such apps really quickly.

Appsmith also has a deep integration with Git. This allows you to create feature branches, raise pull requests and have different branches for your staging and prod environments. This also allows you to rollback your application to an older version.

While there are obvious pitfalls of using a low code application, I'd wager that you'd be able to go much further, much more quickly than you initially estimated.

2 comments

Great, thanks for responding! I'll be taking a serious look. I completely understand the motivation behind Appsmith, it's kind of exactly why I'm evaluating tools like these.

Out of interest, what proportion of your creators are engineers vs SMEs? Reason why I'm asking is that I'd be very nervous of letting non-engineers (without an understanding of just how much damage they could do) create write apps.

Any planned support for gRPC or OpenAPI?