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The generated react living alongside custom react sounds similar to MUI's low-code drag-n-drop editor that they're working on (https://mui.com/toolpad/).

Looking at the demo, does Plasmic have any killer features that MUI's offering doesn't? At the moment, MUI's main limitation is that it can't connect directly to a database: you have to go through an API, or write an API route for each app that proxies the SQL queries.



Plasmic does have support to different data integrations, including databases: https://www.plasmic.app/integrations


Just some of the differences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38701406

And yes you can connect directly a database - critically, Plasmic lets you define backend operations that work with auth: https://docs.plasmic.app/learn/integrations/#security


MUI's Toolpad looks pretty cool! I'm going to try it out today.

One big difference is that Plasmic is a platform and can be used by non-developers to make changes that go straight to production. Think marketers, content managers, and other non-devs that are on your team who want to ship new designs and content without bugging the dev.




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