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Show HN: BoringUi, converting JSON to web UI

23 points| Anuttam | 1 year ago |boringui.vercel.app

Hey hackers, introducing BoringUi, a tool to convert your json data to web ui. Just enter the data, describe how you want the ui and done!

Thinking of adding a feature to directly connect api so my backend folks never have to learn bloated frontend frameworks for simple tasks. It can be used for internal presentation, MVP etc where you don't want a complex ui.

Checkout the Twitter post : https://x.com/AnuttamAna56189/status/1808423300571316500?t=2...

14 comments

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0x20cowboy|1 year ago

It’s older, but here is another alternative https://github.com/robrohan/lib-loopy

Anuttam|1 year ago

Nice. It can be clubbed with this but I have chosen json to let people create ui from their data since json is a common format. Gonna add feature to connect api and generate ui directly

sabbaticaldev|1 year ago

this was archived 4 years ago and doesn’t even build anymore, what’s the point of saying it’s an alternative? it’s not

ramon156|1 year ago

This is converting, this is generating. I keep getting different results which I don't expect when converting.

itake|1 year ago

the default json generated a view with white text on a white background :hmm:

Anuttam|1 year ago

I also faced this sometimes. Improving

nsiradze|1 year ago

what kind of use cases or specific scenarios are you targeting with this feature? I get about internal presentation or MVP but, why should I pay for it

Anuttam|1 year ago

The plan is to evolve it to a full frontend. For ex connect your backend api and generate ui for your content and use custom domain directly (handling pagination also). Use for dashboards etc.

mutant|1 year ago

Doesn't appear to work now

Anuttam|1 year ago

Still working for me. What did you try ?

mutant|1 year ago

Also. Fuck xitter, move on bro