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I think the workflow engine is the _best_ part of it, but together with the script editor (online code editor with LSP support) and a drag-n-drop app builder, that is for developers, so you "drop down" to code much of the logic and connect it to script or workflow, it's a really nice combo. (you see a lot of other companies trying to span out to workflow + script + appbuilder).

It's really made for developers or at least people that want code as a "first class citizen" of the platform. So i has a cli to sync to/from a VCS, VS code extention. But at the same time I have gotten a tech savvy person on the customer success team to create a workflow where they connect to our API and actually create meaningful services way faster then the enterprise developer team would have done.

The script and flows get automatically endpoints to connect to, but all request is saved to db, and picked up by a worker that has to save the result to disk, before the server again pick up the result and send it to a client. So I would not use it to customer. I have used it for a lot of internal tools to employees. Meaning they can wait 1-2 sec, because you can teach them that it works and you provide a lot of value.




> It's really made for developers or at least people that want code as a "first class citizen" of the platform.

Power Automate doesn't have this (unless you hack it into custom connectors) and it's a really puzzling decision.

I guess they want you to use Azure Functions but those need a PhD to understand and the deal with the security surface.


Ok so nothing is stopping us from wrapping around it as a backend for a CRuD app?


Nope you can totally do it. It also has a drag and drop app builder and support most frameworks as long as it is build in a certain way.

https://www.windmill.dev/docs/react_vue_svelte_apps/react




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