What's great
Xano is probably the best place for beginners with solid product ideas. You get to build your solution step by step with guardrails that will not hinder your creativity, instead it will protect your product for years to come.
What needs improvement
I think its design could use some love but still pretty sollid
vs Alternatives
I'm a developer so I wanted a tool that brings me all the flexibility I'm used to, but I also wanted others in my team to be able to look at what I was doing and tweak it when necessary without having to involve me every time. Everyone gets to see our data, create custom function to do exactly what they need, I can review the code, I can do profiling and detect inefficient in a breeze... nothing else does that, I don't even know traditional coders who do profiling!
Can we mix no-code steps with custom JavaScript?
Xano let you mix JavaScript and TypeScript in their Lambda function. They will run in your xano stack and have access of your xano stack context
Can we schedule CRON jobs and background tasks reliably?
You can schedule tasks in Xano, it could be a simple every 5 mins or more complex every 1h or every day at 8am until a given date etc... you can combine multiple schedule per task too.
Is Redis caching configurable per endpoint or query?
It is configurable per endpoint, per function but also entirely custom, you can create your own custom caching