Hi HN,

Prakhar, Jan, Pedro and Bharat here - we are excited to introduce our product to you. It’s been more than a year since we started working on Toolpad and we're glad to show it to the HN community today.

MUI Toolpad is an open-source, self-hosted internal tool builder designed for backend and full-stack developers who want to build web apps such as analytics dashboards, CRUD interfaces, and utility apps quickly. Toolpad comes as a Node.js package that integrates into your backend and harnesses the speed of its drag-and-drop UI builder for the frontend.

It comes with 16 pre-built Material UI components to build UIs in minutes. You can also import and use external React components in the drag-and-drop builder.

Toolpad runs completely locally which means you're not stuck with an online code editor or a suboptimal GitHub integration. It lets you use your own IDE and extend your existing functions to the canvas through intuitive queries. All configuration is stored in local files which you can version-control, edit, and deploy in any way you want.

You can check out a live demo here [1]. If you find it useful, you can support us by giving a star on GitHub [2]. We released our public beta [3] this week. We're happy to answer any questions/feedback in the comments.

[1]: https://stackblitz.com/fork/github/mui/mui-toolpad/tree/mast...

[2]: https://github.com/mui/mui-toolpad

[3]: https://mui.com/blog/2023-toolpad-beta-announcement/