Building apps in minutes, not months

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2021-09-17 16:00:10

In order to build the many experiments for my research on the future of personal computing, and the subsequent demos for these Lab Notes, I needed a way to build much faster than was presently possible (the work simply won’t work if it takes weeks or months to scale up each experiment; the learning has to be faster than that).

Normally, if you want to build a reasonably sophisticated app, you could spend months to years on development. You would have to build authentication, ensuring users can log in and out, and a way to transmit and store their data securely. You would have to build the entire interface, maybe with the help of a framework, and you’d build a state management system, as well as a way to syncronize the user’s data from the server into the system, and a way to bind the data in the system to the interface components for users to see. For most apps, it is a months-log slog to version 0.1 (which will have to be rebuilt anyway once critical insights are uncovered).

This new framework I’ve been working on explores getting rid of nearly all of those steps: once you know what you want your app to do and how you want it to look, the actual coding takes minutes.

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