Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python
I love it. But seeing this now, in 2017, is a bit depressing to me.<p>For the last 15 years Microsoft has been putting out the same RAD tools, but based on ASP.NET&#x2F;C#&#x2F;Visual Studio. Things like drop-in provider-based OAuth, editing versioned database projects, WYSIWYG UI, etc. Publishing to the web, even the flow of clicking on a button to edit its handler looks like it was based directly on Winforms which is a 12 year old technology.<p>Why aren&#x27;t there more of these things out there?<p>How much time now is spent learning the latest and greatest framework&#x2F;toolkit&#x2F;etc. only to spend more time configuring individual components and cobbling them together vs. just getting the product finished and published to users? I don&#x27;t mean to be cynical but I wish there was some way all these different tools somehow built on each other instead of constantly resetting the dev stacks.<p>For example, Create React App - I&#x27;m constantly impressed by how it has eschewed configuration in favor of getting things done while still having a lot of flexibility. It draws on a lot of great, previous past projects and seems to define the train of thought for other react projects. It seems to me that people like Dan Abramov, Brent Jackson, and others are on the same wavelength which is incredibly powerful for the react community.<p>There should be a way for that sentiment to extend beyond React, into the database world, the IDE world so that we can collaborate and create more nice things like this.