August Newsletter ??
Hope you had a great August, Appsmiths!
As we gear up for an action-packed Fall full of events like Appsmith Innovate and Hacktoberfest, keep an eye out for product updates — there’s a lot of good stuff coming from the engineering team like datasource environments this month! And if you liked articles like How We Fixed Performance With JS Object Variable Mutation, you’re in for a treat when we release a deep dive into our Git feature as well as a new ebook on how Appsmith implemented a modular monolith instead of using microservices. Stay tuned!
Community Updates
Appsmith Innovate Conference
In October, we will be hosting our first virtual conference: Appsmith Innovate! There will be product updates, customer stories, tips, and more. Visit the information page and save your spot.
Hacktoberfest
Also in October, we have our annual Hacktoberfest event! Last year we had some fun contests and prizes, and this year we are going to do more. Stay tuned for details, especially if you want a chance to get one of our new t-shirts.
Accelerate Your Startup's Tech Success with Appsmith
Join Luciano Laporta, a leader in criminal intelligence analysis and cybercrime technologies, along with Kevin Blanco, Senior DevRel Advocate at Appsmith, for a Spanish-speaking event. Discover how Appsmith's rapid and secure startup-building capabilities can accelerate your startup's tech success. Mark your calendars for September 8th at 5:30 PM Pacific Time.
Fostering a Product-First Mindset with Appsmith
This community portal article explains the fundamental distinction between a product-first engineer mindset and a code-first one, within the context of Appsmith.
Product Updates
ECharts Replaces Fusion Charts
Echarts is an Apache charting library that supports 20 out-of-the-box chart types and dozens of components that can be combined for any data visualization in your Appsmith apps.
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Widgets Grouped by Use Cases
Widgets are now grouped by their popular uses, so you can quickly find the one you need.
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Datasource Environments
Introducing Datasource Environments, a new method for bringing Staging and Production data from the same datasource connection! Now you can experiment on non-critical data before you ship updates and new features to end-users.
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SCIM for Group Syncing
Introducing SCIM for group syncing your IdP to Appsmith! Automatically add users with the right roles and permissions and manage all your Appsmith users from one interface.
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Previews for Google Sheets
Introducing previews for Google Sheets. Now, for new Google Sheets connections, you will see a preview of the spreadsheet that you choose, change spreadsheets to check out the data in them, and create a list from your preferred sheet right from the Datasource connection page.
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?Sync and Async Functions
We now refresh connections to MySQL datasources so you don’t see your queries failing a while after writing them. Should a StaleConnection error happen, you now see it in the Debugger so you can refresh your app or investigate it further.
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The Debugger is now smarter, guiding you with errors that teleport you to either an API config page, a line in a JS Object, or a Query’s property.
From the Blog
The modular monolithic architecture improved how we interact with our OS community
Some libraries and frameworks over-promise features, leading teams to build on them only to find that their final product doesn't meet expectations or has performance issues.
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