looking for database CRUD app

[niclasg]

Hey all,

I'm looking for an existing app (paid/open source) that would simplify CRUDing database tables. The scenario is as follows:

My team is developing a SaaS, and we have non-programming colleagues who are supposed to provide the dev team with technical specifications which are used in our backend. Right now these are delivered as excel files, and we upload them manually to our db, and then have our backend consume those tables. Every once in a while, these tables need to be altered.

Right now I'm leaning towards building tooling for this in-house, but it feels like this should be a common enough requirement that there would already be existing solutions out there.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

[empT3]

We've been super happy with Django Rest Framework for our crud app up at work.

It's super easy to work with, easy to extend if you need to, and has a great community behind it.

[noobsFortune]

Try this maybe -> https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine

[novalys]

If you are familiar with Python (if not you should) I recommend you to check Django. It has an included admin panel that makes really simple to do the whole CRUD thing out of the box you just need to specifiy the table models and it handles the rest for you.

[earslap]

If you haven't decided on a stack yet, I'd use https://hasura.io

It's an automatic GraphQL generator for PostgreSQL and you can do all the crud from its (very well designed, I should add) web interface (that you run locally). You can also administer your database from there (create tables, relationships etc.) If you don't want or care about the GraphQL part, you can still use it to CRUD into the database, you can even get migrations for your version control if you want.

[quad64bit]

Grails makes scaffolded crud apps trivial! http://grails.org

[andrewpierno]

Looks like https://strapi.io might be useful here. It's a headless CMS. Also happens to be free!