gprakhar

Given your first project is in Node + React, you might find Toolpad (https://mui.com/toolpad/) worth considering. It’s a set of components designed to build React dashboards. It's built on top of Material UI and is fully extensible. Also, it’s open source and free to use regardless of scale.

Thanks for checking out Toolpad.

I agree that Retool and a few others are ahead in this category. Like them, we also have a drag-and-drop UI builder that makes them a competitor. But we see Toolpad as a more code-friendly alternative that can be directly imported into an existing codebase. Toolpad supports extending your existing backend functions to the canvas and ensures that a single source of business logic exists.

Retool, and others are SaaS tools that are good initially but can get pricey quickly as an org scales.