N8n seems to have a pretty fine gui for configuring little pipelines, sort of alike node-red. If the author wanted to embellish & enhance what they have there's a variety of other connectors & processors they could easily snap into place. It's easy to glance at a pipeline and see what the general shape is. This high level world feels much more normative & clear than scratching together "simple" php scripts.
Ditto for sending data into nocodb. An Airtable spreadsheet/database like system, with a good gui, with form submissions being fed into a spreadsheet: it's again nicely high level. It integrates with other documents or reports, if you want. It's easy to access from the web. It's a very slick very user friendly solution that still brings a ton of power. Another huge win for a high level system.
I too had an initial WTF reaction, are you serious reaction. But it wasn't that hard to find some empathy when I tried. I didn't have to work that hard to appreciate what the post is going for, to envision what the actual usage/configuration looked like, and to see there is a pretty neat high level set of guis here that are used to program a very flexible small little pipeline. And I can see how each piece is extremely malleable by end users. That freedom to rework & reshape this system freely is really neat.
There may be good tailor made solutions that we can agree to dub as "simpler" for form handling, but the composability & flexibility of this end-user driven solution is super neat & super compelling to me. These tools are extremely generic & could be used for all manners of tasks, and that is enormously compelling, to good general systems that we can use to tackle all manners of tasks. This is a cool pick of tools to bring together.
And the authors thoughts about why are well spelt out. Not to mention that this seems infinitely more flexible than what some other people are recommending.
Like theirs an entire thread of people somehow acting like dumping forms to a mailto: handler that the client then has to send via a hopefully configured mail client is somehow a realistic and reliable option
N8n seems to have a pretty fine gui for configuring little pipelines, sort of alike node-red. If the author wanted to embellish & enhance what they have there's a variety of other connectors & processors they could easily snap into place. It's easy to glance at a pipeline and see what the general shape is. This high level world feels much more normative & clear than scratching together "simple" php scripts.
Ditto for sending data into nocodb. An Airtable spreadsheet/database like system, with a good gui, with form submissions being fed into a spreadsheet: it's again nicely high level. It integrates with other documents or reports, if you want. It's easy to access from the web. It's a very slick very user friendly solution that still brings a ton of power. Another huge win for a high level system.
I too had an initial WTF reaction, are you serious reaction. But it wasn't that hard to find some empathy when I tried. I didn't have to work that hard to appreciate what the post is going for, to envision what the actual usage/configuration looked like, and to see there is a pretty neat high level set of guis here that are used to program a very flexible small little pipeline. And I can see how each piece is extremely malleable by end users. That freedom to rework & reshape this system freely is really neat.
There may be good tailor made solutions that we can agree to dub as "simpler" for form handling, but the composability & flexibility of this end-user driven solution is super neat & super compelling to me. These tools are extremely generic & could be used for all manners of tasks, and that is enormously compelling, to good general systems that we can use to tackle all manners of tasks. This is a cool pick of tools to bring together.