NocoDB - Open Source Airtable Alternative
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@timconsidine Do you know how NocoDB and SeaTable compare with Baserow which is also Open Source AFAIK?
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@avatar1024 I haven't done a full comparison
I have to say I prefer SeaTable because of the richer interface and setting up different views.
And NocoDB is just plain annoying on its splash screen after the first time you have seen it .... but it's only a splash screen, so I had better get over it.
Other than that, I haven't found a lot of difference between them, but TBH that's probably because I focussed more on SeaTable so far. But OSS is important so I will likely focus on Baserow or Nocodb more next.
I think I would lean a little towards Baserow, but can't put my finger on why. Maybe it is NocoDB annoying eye-candy animations (we're not all children who go 'ooo' when they see glitter on the screen). Or the fact I have just found it has lost my initial user login and so the the tables I setup. Grrr. But can't blame them for that (maybe I did something wrong setting it up).
But Noco is still only 0.8 so maybe some caution required.
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@adeelahmad oh this is great. What is the status of the package? Does the app itself work well?
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@timconsidine I had to try the app myself to understand what you meant by those animations. Agreed those animations are a bit off putting! Also, if you leave the app tab open for a while, it shows a matrix animation ! There is a checkbox to disable it though - https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/171 .
Seems somewhere between a toy and a serious app.
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@girish Let me update you guys tomorrow. One minor change and done. A question tho why cant i create repo on git.cloudron.io? anyway to put it there ?
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@adeelahmad said in NocoDB - Open Source Airtable Alternative:
A question tho why cant i create repo on git.cloudron.io? anyway to put it there ?
You probably just don't have permission to do so yet. I assume @girish will sort you out
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@jdaviescoates Thanks
@girish i do not want to use my github for many reason, it would be great if you can provide permissions, i have about 5-10 apps that i can publish including outline, jira, slack nebula vpn,opencats and many others .
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@adeelahmad you should have access now to create repos.
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@jdaviescoates Thanks, let me put as much as i can over this weekend. will post links here. Also not sure if its production grade or not so please feel free to contribute or fork as you like.
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@adeelahmad said in NocoDB - Open Source Airtable Alternative:
not sure if its production grade or not so please feel free to contribute or fork as you like.
Would love to be able to, but don't have the skills.
I note @klawitterb also has a an Outline package too:
https://forum.cloudron.io/post/36360
Hopefully between you both and @staff and @appdev peeps will be able to get something stable sorted!
(although @girish or @nebulon should probably move these posts about Outline into the Outline thread as we've gone somewhat off topic
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+1 to have NocoDB to Cloudron!
I just spoke to the founder, Naveen about the possibility to bring over NocoDB to Cloudron, and he's happy to do so.
I'll send him the link to this topic, so he can come and introduce himself & the app here.
Hope the Cloudron team @nebulon @girish can get in touch with him as well to make this possible
Really excited!
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@aizat happy to bump across you.
Hey Cloudron community,
This is Naveen - Founder of NocoDB.
NocoDB is a free & open source no-code database. (its an alternative to airtable but on your own new/existing databases). We instantly provide a collaborative spreadsheet and APIs on databases. Currently support turning postgres, mysql, SQL server, sqlite and mariadb databases.
We launched it 7 months ago and have had ~5.5 Million docker downloads. Would love to make NocoDB part of Cloudron so that the community can benefit for a seamless experience.
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@o1lab hi naveen, welcome here! I am happy to get it published. It's actually pretty much packaged and one thing holding us back was that after installation, it shows a splash screen and this can be a confusing UX for the user. Is there a way to disable this and also the matrix screensaver automatically say at install time (in the packaging script) ? It's fine if we have to edit some database variables directly or set some environment variables.
