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A story about open-source, the Bulgarian Government, and the war in Ukraine
It was a Sunday morning, and Â鶹AV’s Bulgarian QA engineer, Mihail, receives multiple LinkedIn messages from multiple employees of the Bulgarian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). He brushed it off, thinking it was a scam. But, suddenly, he gets a call from his cousin who works with the MoFA. It turns out that the Bulgarian Government had been using Â鶹AV (open source repo) to build an app that would help them rehome thousands of Ukrainian refugees.
Martin McKeaveney
Jul 31, 2022
Â鶹AV’s public API is now available
Today, we are launching one of our most requested features - our new public API! When you sign up for Â鶹AV, you get a low-code platform with an internal database, external data connectors (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle DB, Airtable, MongoDB…), user management, free SSO, drag and drop GUI for building UIs, powerful prebuilt components, free SSO, an automation interface (like Zapier) and now a flexible public API to interact with.
Joe Johnston
Mar 14, 2022
November 2021 Release
In November, Â鶹AV launched out of beta! The response from our community was amazing, and over 5000 new accounts signed up to Â鶹AV. If this wasn’t enough, we’ve found time to release a number of new features: Â鶹AV Blocks Blocks are predefined sets of components that streamline the design process within Â鶹AV. Before blocks, creating a list of searchable cards took 10 minutes; with blocks, this process takes under 1 minute.
Joe Johnston
Dec 3, 2021
September 2021 release - Cloudy with a chance of awesomeness
The September release introduces Â鶹AV Cloud, making it invitingly easy to try Â鶹AV and build internal tools in minutes. This is our largest and most significant release to date. Â鶹AV Cloud is in beta Before Â鶹AV Cloud, it wasn’t easy to try Â鶹AV if you were unfamiliar with Docker, Kubernetes, or Digital Ocean. With Â鶹AV Cloud, you can experience the power, sleekness, and simplicity of Â鶹AV in just a few seconds.
Joe Johnston
Oct 15, 2021
July 2021 release - SSO, conditional UI, and more
The July release delivers on a number of popular requests from our community and contains four major updates, including; SSO - OIDC support Conditional UI Themeable apps Map SQL relationships within the builder SSO - OIDC support OIDC is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol. As a user, you will have infinite possibilities for SSO, including: Active Directory! - popular request Auth0 Azure Okta OneLogin It’s also possible to add your own authentication!
Joe Johnston
Jul 25, 2021
June 2021 release - Build an SQL CRUD app in seconds
The June release significantly improves the developer experience when; building CRUD apps with an SQL database, laying out components, and delivering responsive apps. TL; DR Build SQL CRUD apps in seconds A new layout settings bar Preset layouts Responsive navigation layout Improved design experience Confirmation modal for actions Build SQL CRUD apps in seconds Previous to this release, SQL was supported but the experience was tedious. We talked with our community, we listened hard and went back to first principles, and the outcome is an entire new and improved SQL experience.
Joe Johnston
Jun 27, 2021
May 2021 release - Run Â鶹AV in your browser
The May release transforms the development experience for every single Â鶹AV user. It is also the beginning of a new and exciting journey that involves Â鶹AV moving to the browser. TL; DR Run Â鶹AV via the browser in your self-hosted cloud We will no longer actively develop on the Â鶹AV desktop builder A new Admin UI Improved user management Built-in email support Google Auth - users can sign in with Google New, fresh, accessible UI New data provider component (with sorting/filtering/UX/perf enhancements) New table component (remove and add columns) New formula data type Import Options as part of the CSV import Add code to automations CRON automation trigger Run Â鶹AV in the cloud From this release forward, you will run Â鶹AV via the browser in your self-hosted cloud.
Joe Johnston
May 27, 2021
6 tried and tested ways to get more Github Stars
Over the last year, we’ve been building an open-source, low-code platform for developers and IT professionals. We’ve been so bogged down building the product and talking to users; we completely neglected the Â鶹AV Github repo . A trifling 83 stars in November presented a bleak assessment of the impact our repository had on passersby. So, a few weeks back, we decided to give more thought to our Github repository. I would like to stipulate, we do not treat stars as the primary currency of successful open source projects.
Joe Johnston
Dec 14, 2020