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by raviparikh 1364 days ago
To add on to what Josh said, the main value of Airplane is that we automate a lot of things that would normally require you to write a lot more additional code. So for example, if you build an admin panel using Airplane instead of doing so from scratch, we'll provide the following for you:

* A rich React component library that's optimized for internal tooling (tables, charts, etc) * Permissions, audit logs, and approval flows that are easily configurable * Integrations into various systems that an internal tool would normally have to integrate with (e.g. identity providers like Okta, Slack for notifications, etc)

So if you'd expect building that admin panel to take a few days or weeks of work, ideally with Airplane we can reduce that down to a few hours instead.

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Part of what bothers me with the current webdev approach is irreducible complexity.

How many layers of 'magic' to facilitate devs deploying do we really need and is it wise to depend on so many?