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Looks great! Can I extend it? Does it have plugin/hook etc. support?

I've just tried it with an SQLite database. It doesn't seem to support `BLOB` columns (that's reasonable). I would have liked to be able to display images in BLOB columns as virtual attachments or show a download link.

Edit: It actually does!

https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/tree/master/packages/nc-plu...

But there doesn't seem to be any documentation for it yet.

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Yes we have hooks for spreadsheet inserts/updates/deletes and we will be working on the frontend part to make it modularised as mentioned in another comment.

https://youtu.be/H4qBE0T47b4

Store images in BLOBs - we aren't against it. But we ran short of time to make that work for all databases.

For file storage : it used local filesystem if no storage app is installed.

You can connect to wide variety of storage services : S3, Minio, BackBlaze, GCS, Azure to name a few. I believe Azure storage isn't tested as we didn't have credits with them :)

FWIW, the very first thing I thought of when I saw SQLite was "huh, I can think of a couple apps where I'd like to upload some images". You could do that with Access, but it struggled with file sizes. SQLite's file format scales nicely (I've used it for MBTiles geodata before).

So, would be neat to see that added.

Looks great. Two things: I do a lot of downloading and uploading CSV files in airtable, so ETL is important. For a self-hosted airtable a huge feature would be connecting to many data sources and munging the data in the app.

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