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Instantly turn your app spec into Django & Node source code
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Kevin William David
ImagineAI — Instantly turn your app spec into Django & Node source code
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Imagine is a smart code generator for your app’s backend. Add your app settings & data models via a simple UI and instantly generate high-quality Django/Node code (including REST/GraphQL APIs & tests) that you can download & customize. Free & no signup needed.
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Privahini Bradoo
Maker
Thanks @kevin ! Imagine is a labor of love for my co-founder @anusheel_bhushan and me. Anusheel has been a software engineer for over a decade and we’ve overseen the build out of several (80+) software products over the years. Each time we were acutely reminded of how much redundancy there exists while writing code, especially for commonly used components and features in software applications. Also, while we believe the current version of the no-code movement is awesome, we found it hard to scale these solutions for applications that required any reasonable level of custom logic. So we built Imagine - a configurable, cross-framework platform for developers to easily generate high-quality code for common application components, which they can seamlessly integrate into their projects, without any lock-in - and allowing them to focus on writing custom business logic. Our goal has been to make the generated code clean, readable and following known software best practices (we love the 12—factor app philosophy!) - basically indistinguishable from what a skilled engineer would write. Our beta release allows you to define your starter settings, data models and relations via a UI and we instantly generate code for a dockerized project starter, ORM, REST & GraphQL CRUD APIs and tests in both Django & Node.js. We also have the following features on our roadmap: - Backend frameworks: - Node/Typescript - Backend features: - NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB) - Support for migrations - Kubernetes deployment scripts - Logging and monitoring - Authentication (via multiple providers) - Payments integration (via multiple providers) - Frontend frameworks: - React (incl Redux, Hooks) - React native - Frontend features: - API calling - Views & components - Storybooks We’d like to thank you in advance for trying our product out - we’re still early in development, and would love your feedback and suggestions as we push to make Imagine better everyday!
Chintan Palan
Great work @anusheel_bhushan and @pbradoo , Any plans on making it open source, I'm sure a lot of folks here would surely like to contribute to it to make their own needed features come true. Though just a suggestion, really appreciate the work you guys have done.
Pablo Diaz Gutierrez
Looks really neat. Can’t wait to give it a try. Do you have a timeline for the Lambda deployment ?
Alejandro Madrazo
Can I connect an existing database and generate models using reverse engineering?
Privahini Bradoo
Maker
@amadrazo We are planning to add support for that! Pls join our Slack or Discord channel (you can find this on our website) where we plan to release announcements of updates and future releases :))
Paul Onteri
Good work!
Felipe Zapata
The potential is huge!
Privahini Bradoo
Maker
@felipe_zapata2 Thanks Felipe!
Vivek
This would save a lot of time. Thanks for making this
Privahini Bradoo
Maker
@vivekweb2013 Thanks Vivek - really glad you like this!
Jack
It's amazing product!!! It would save a lot of time to code!
Diego Iañez
Really excited to see the Typescript support you plan to add!
Anchal Dhar
the tool looks really use-full, the tool take away the pain and time spent in writing the boilerplate set up code with these integrated technologies and I love the fact that it already incorporates the recommended and best practice approaches when generating the code !!!
Adolfo Rivera
Looks much more powerful than Express application generator. Does it support Typescript?
Privahini Bradoo
Maker
Thanks @ofito - yes, we will be releasing typescript support very soon!
Germán Castro
This tool is freaking cool! 🤓❤️ I work developing applications for startups and this is really useful. It saves development time, reduces possible bugs, and generates quality code. I'm very excited to see how this interesting project progresses!
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Maker
@patamembrillo Thats great and glad you see the potential. A lot of bugs in software come when writing boring / repetitive / boilerplate software. That is what we want to eliminate with Imagine. So engineers can focus on writing code that is truly distinct in their product and also on the difficult computer science problems VS reinventing the wheel.
JLCas
Great tool to quickly start a new project. It may save 2 weeks of work of an experienced developer. Do you plan to support Gitlab pipelines too? How is this tool different from cookiecutter (Python) or create-react-app (Javascript)?
David Lorca Campos
This tool is fantastic! Very intuitive and fast. I am sure that I will use it for my future projects!
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Maker
@david_lorca_campos Thanks we look forward to your feedback as you use this in projects. Which features would you want us to add which could help you during the first 2 weeks of your project?
Jose Juan (JJ)
As an early alpha user, Imagine helped save me a lot of time in setting up my last Node project. Would love to see support for Auth0 integration and React API calling support
Privahini Bradoo
Maker
@jose_juan_jj_ Thanks JJ! We loved having you as an early use! You're spot on with the Auth0 and React API calling feature recommendations - these are coming very, very soon :)
David Gallardo
The Dockerfile and docker compose support looks great! Are you planning to add support for deploying to Kubernetes or Lambda?
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Maker
@david_gallardo1 - we currently support docker compose support for running both node and django with MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite databases on your local dev machine or in production. We have plans to add support for generating the scripts required to enable single command deployment to EKS / GKE and AWS Lambda / Google cloud functions. Our goal with Imagine is to allow you to focus on writing code for your business logic and not worry about the various boilerplate code around deployment, CI/CD, database setup etc.
Saul Moreno Abril
Thanks to this tool, the start-up of any project is not rocket science anymore. Are you thinking to add integrations with Git-based hosting services like Github? Also, I would like to continue using the tool during the development of some way.
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Maker
@93sauu We are working to support on-going use as your project evolves. We are also going to add Github integration which would allow creating a Pull Request with the generated code from within the web ui itself. What has typically been the most difficult part in starting new projects for you?
Halil Bilir
The dashboard looks really great. I loved how it generates and deploys the code almost instantly. And the Swagger instance is really handy to test the API endpoints. I'd love to try Imagine for my next side project to save time. Especially when the authentication and Typescript support is ready.
Privahini Bradoo
Maker
@halil_bilir Thanks a lot Halil, it means a lot!
Paolo Raez
This is great! No need to spend more time looking for templates. With Imagine you can configure your own one depending on what you need. Powerful and flexible 😀
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Maker
@kharenzze Thanks! we currently don't support adding your own templates but its something we are considering. Our code generator is built with a powerful meta language that allows us to easily use custom templates during the code generation. This is much more powerful than the regular expression based approach used by traditional code generators like cookie-cutter, yeoman etc.
Petramika
Testing the app this is just brilliant, got a working micro-service in less than 5 minutes.... Waiting to see the next versions with typescript and react, very helpful as well for front end developers.
Privahini Bradoo
Maker
@petramika Thanks so much - excited to share future versions with you!