Good Open Source and Low Code App Builder
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Internal tools. Every organization needs internal tools to track KPIs or tansactions or just prepare dashboards. Budibase try to solve this problem. They have good number of external data sources available which you can plug in to bring your data and start building applications. You can even connect external REST API as a data source which means you can build almost any data from the web which support APIs. Budibase is a low/no code builder and hence it's relatively easy to build a working app.
Pros
- Can connect REST APIs
- Can define User Roles
- Open Source so you can host it yourself if you prefer
- They have a component called reapeater field which is extreamly useful in cases you want to iterate UI component on you table
Cons
- Building UI even though simple, it gets tougher when you want to build a complex one. The way they have implemented data sources in the UI is bit rigid.
- you can not use JS in all the components to manipulate data which makes it less dynamic compared to say AppSmith.
Return on Investment
- made building internal tool easy
- saved good number of man hours compared to building tools from scratch
Alternatives Considered
Retool and Appsmith