bbatchelder

Before I build something myself, I wanted to check if there is anything already out there that does this.

Essentially want to build custom apps by designing them in a visual workflow builder to define the interactivity.

Imagine being able to drag a "Prompt" activity, define the content you want to display to the user, and the options for how the user can respond (ex: show Yes/No buttons, or other choices), and then have a decision activity that can evaluate what the user chose and branch to some other UI - like another prompt dialog, or a file upload dialog, or a form, etc etc.

The more activities that you implement the richer the app you could build.

Right now I am leaning towards using "node red" as the workflow engine, and building a bunch of custom nodes that represent all the UI functionality I want - and then implementing an app host in Angular or React that will integrate with the workflow - probably via web socket messages.

So at the end of the day, this App Host UI is receiving commands from the workflow as far as what content to display to the user, and then sending back what the user is doing with the UI to the workflow so it can send follow up commands.