Hello, 👋
We're excited to bring you some new updates from Appsmith!
June was an exiting month with our summer launch event: Appsmith DEPLOY. The event featured some amazing product announcements and best practices sessions. If you missed it, don’t worry! Here are some highlights you can watch online:
- App Performance Matters
- Appsmith Self-Hosting, CI/CD, DevOps, and Terraform
- Accelerating App Development
We also covered building performant apps, Git, and more topics. You can watch the replay of all the sessions here.
As for the product updates, continue reading to see our latest announcements.
Stay tuned for more updates!
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Blog
Packages and Modules in Appsmith: Share Queries, JavaScript, and Widgets across Your Apps
We’ve recently shifted our focus more toward enterprise use cases with packages and modules. Learn what packages are and how you can start using them in your Appsmith apps.
Less is More: How Reusability in Appsmith Helps You Build More with Less Code
Find out about the powerful reusability features native to the Appsmith, how they help your workflow, and how enterprises can leverage them at scale.
Building a Shopify Admin Panel: A Step by Step Guide
Discover how to build a custom Shopify admin panel using Appsmith. The goal of the tutorial is that any employee can view the dashboard to see the status of an order and mark it closed (completing and archiving it), without having to log in to Shopify.
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Product Updates
New SSL CA certificates for data source connections
We've added features to our data sources that allow you to upload and use custom SSL certificates for your databases such as Postgres and MySQL. This makes communication between the Appsmith cluster and your internal databases highly secure.
2x faster first page load
We've improved the communication between the main thread and multiple worker threads within the browser, reducing data transfer and resulting in faster interaction times. Additionally, we've increased the parallelization of communication and the number of threads processing data, which has further minimized query execution time.
→ Find all the details of these new releases and additional updates in our monthly round-up.
Appsmith is a multi-category leader
G2 Summer 2024 reports are out, and Appsmith has been named a leader, momentum leader, and Asia Pacific leader in multiple categories. Thank you for your feedback and support!!
Blog
Packages and Modules in Appsmith: Share Queries, JavaScript, and Widgets across Your Apps
We’ve recently shifted our focus more toward enterprise use cases with packages and modules. Learn what packages are and how you can start using them in your Appsmith apps.
Less is More: How Reusability in Appsmith Helps You Build More with Less Code
Find out about the powerful reusability features native to the Appsmith, how they help your workflow, and how enterprises can leverage them at scale.
Building a Shopify Admin Panel: A Step by Step Guide
Discover how to build a custom Shopify admin panel using Appsmith. The goal of the tutorial is that any employee can view the dashboard to see the status of an order and mark it closed (completing and archiving it), without having to log in to Shopify.
Community
We are thrilled to celebrate with our community as we recently crossed 1000 members! We've also refreshed our home page design, with many changes including browsing content by “topic” or “integration”.
A big shout out to Anna Hari, who worked with our team to get 3 PRs approved, including one that added support for Google Cloud Storage to our S3 connector. And to June’s winner, Oscar Santana, for his Vertical Timeline Custom Widget! For July's contest theme: SaaS Integrations. Submit your template, tutorial, or blog post featuring integrations like Airtable, Google Sheets, or HubSpot to win Appsmith swag.
Ditch the Bloat : Building a Swipeable Carousel with Only CSS
This article discusses the creation of a lightweight, swipeable carousel using only CSS. It details the process of building a carousel that can display multiple items, scroll smoothly, and use minimal JavaScript for additional functionality like navigation buttons.
Exploring Dynamic PDF Generation Methods
Joseph provides an overview of the basic methods for dynamic PDF generation methods and outlines some of the pros and cons to help you select the method that best fits your use case and technical level.
Beyond the Buzzword: Undertanding CI/CD
Kevin delves into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), explaining what they are, exploring key best practices, and highlighting their importance in modern software development.
Announcing Appsmith Terraform Modules - Infrastructure As Code
Appsmith has released the first version of its Terraform modules for AWS and GCP, simplifying the deployment process for architects and DevOps teams. These modules automate the provisioning of infrastructure resources required for Appsmith, making deployments more consistent and efficient.
Events
Building a Markdown Editor Custom Widget feat. EasyMDE
Thursday, July 18th | 7:30 PM IST, 7:00 AM PT
Join Kevin and Joseph for an exciting live coding session on building your own markdown editor using Appsmith.
Interactive Dashboard Feat. Google Sheets Tables
Friday, July 19th | 7:30 PM IST, 7:00 AM PT
Looking for a way to create interactive dashboards for your Google Sheets data? Or maybe a way to share charts and pivot tables without sharing the whole sheet? In this workshop, Joseph shows how to build an interactive dashboard connected to a sheet using the new Google Sheets Tables.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, we hold office hours on Discord with the Support team. This is a great opportunity to get your questions answered and engage with our team.
