fulcro-rad

You're on to something. Low code platforms, at their core, allow you to define the software with data (from predefined components usually through UI) and that's how they enable super productivity, until you hit a wall. Data Declarative programming paradigm could potentially achieve the same levels of productivity without its limitations but it's very difficult to get the right implementation. The most interesting development in this area I had found, is Fulcro Rapid Application Development Tools [1] - a fullstack clojure framework that's performant, declarative and extensible. RAD is still alpha but it bases on battle-proved Fulcro. Once you hit the limits of declarative RAD you can easily extend it with regular Fulcro components which are, in their essence, a cheap abstraction over React/React Native components - offering industry stand

Awesome! Would you mind talking some more about your experience with it? I just got started with Clojure and Fulcro[1] (a full-stack framework) and I'm really, really excited about the possibilities. Have you heard about it? Here are some features off the top of my head (at least that's what they claim): - Well-integrated stack, so very little friction - “Datomic on the front end”: Client-side time-traveling database with automatic normalization, querying via EQL (kinda like GraphQL but more idiomatic and supposedly more powerful), “co-locating” queries in the UI. - React bindings and a Semantic UI library - Lets you swap anything you “outgrow” - Lots of learning material (but still lacking in some areas from a cursory look). The author seems to be very active on Slack (Clojurians #fulcro). - Fulcro RAD[2] (currently alpha) looks like it'

That I can agree with, I use re-frame quite a bit in my day job, it's straightforward and lets you get things done. I'm also of the opinion that the Fulcro docs are very substantial, but aren't always easy to get your question answered. I've been blogging little bits and pieces of things that I've figured out that I don't think were super easy to discover, considering the amount of work that's gone into it, I'm hopeful that the situation will improve. However it's an interesting change to see something designed that's trying to be a complete end to end solution, take the new RAD tools for example[0], there's some cool stuff going on there. There's a demo[1] available as well. - [0] https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-rad - [1] https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-rad-demo

It's still in experimental pre-alpha, and it has a lot of potential https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-rad