ToolJet

How to build a cryptocurrency dashboard in 10 minutes

In this tutorial, we will walk you through building a cryptocurrency dashboard in less than 10 minutes, using the ToolJet platform. ToolJet is a free, open-source, low-code platform that allows you to quickly build tools(https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet). Here is the final application that you would have at

Recap of ToolJet's first Hacktoberfest (2021)

What is Hacktoberfest and why we participatedHacktoberfest is a one-month event that encourages developers to contribute to the open-source projects that they love. Hacktoberfest is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to get involved in the community. In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have

Hacktoberfest 2021

Hacktoberfest is a one-month event that encourages developers to contribute to the open-source projects that they love. At ToolJet, we are a very small team of developers, we built and launched ToolJet on Github 3 months ago. We now have more than 3500 stars on Github, thanks to the community.

Why we are changing ToolJet to the AGPL license

TLDR; We are changing our license from GPL V3 to AGPL V3. ( diff) For users, nothing will change. ToolJet is an open-source platform for building and deploying react-based internal applications. We launched ToolJet three months ago, we've gained some popularity over these months and we started thinking about the licensing.

Why you should use low-code tools to build internal applications

Low-code accelerates the speed of the software development process by reducing the need for writing code. Low-code is a modern approach that makes use of visual development that automates and abstracts the steps required for application development. Low-code platforms come with a drag-and-drop interface for building applications and provide ways

We migrated the ToolJet server from Ruby to Node.js

In recent, JavaScript has become the common language for both backend and frontend applications. The complete thought process behind porting the ToolJet server from Ruby to Node.js is explained in our blog post. It took us more than 3 weeks to port the server completely to Node.js. We

Engineering

Clearing tables before each test - NestJS, typeORM & Postgres

We recently migrated ToolJet server from Ruby on Rails to NestJS. We had to make some changes to clear the tables before running every test. Why should we clean databases before running every tests? Let's say we are testing the endpoint to archive a user, we will create a new

Engineering

Deploying a NestJS application with PostgreSQL database and react frontend on Heroku

Recently, we ported the ToolJet server from Ruby on Rails to NestJS, ToolJet can be deployed to Heroku using the one-click deployment feature of Heroku. ToolJet server is built using Nest.js with TypeORM as the ORM and PostgreSQL as the database. This article will explain how to deploy a

Engineering

Migrating ToolJet server from Ruby on Rails to Node.js

We finally decided to rewrite ToolJet server using TypeScript! ToolJet has two main components, the client and the server. ToolJet client is a ReactJS application and ToolJet server is a Ruby on Rails API-only application. Whenever a new application is built using ToolJet, the frontend ( client ) generates the definition of

Engineering

Setting up TLS certificates for custom domains on the fly

When we were brainstorming on various deployment techniques to set up ToolJet on AWS EC2 instances, one common requirement that came up was to support TLS certificates for custom domains. We wanted a solution that was easy and transparent so that it feels seamless to our users. After careful thinking,

How ToolJet grew from 10 to 2000 stars on GitHub in 3 days

Why ToolJet and why open-sourceBefore I started working on ToolJet, I had worked with a few enterprise clients as a consultant. Many of these clients were huge enough to build and maintain more than 20 internal tools. Despite the constant requests from sales/support/operations teams to add more features

AWS, NAT & EKS

This blog post explains how to configure NAT on AWS for an EKS cluster. Why ?If an application is deployed using Kubernetes, most of the time there will be more than one pod serving the requests. If auto-scaling is enabled, Kubernetes creates and kills nodes and pods according to the

ActiveAdmin vs ToolJet

ActiveAdmin (downloaded over 15 million times) is a popular gem used by Ruby on Rails developers to build admin panels for RoR applications. ActiveAdmin has many alternative like RailsAdmin, Administrate, Avo, etc. Many of these tools are tightly integrated with ActiveRecord pattern. Tools like ActiveAdmin made sense at a time

Introducing ToolJet ( public beta )

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of ToolJet. ToolJet is an open-source low-code platform for building and deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet can connect to existing datasources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly

Getting Started

Building a basic Redis GUI using ToolJet in 5 minutes

In this tutorial, we will quickly create an app that can connect to a remote Redis cluster and run Redis commands on it. Login to your ToolJet installation or ToolJet cloud and create a new application. If you do not have a ToolJet cloud account, you can create one from

Building a Github contributor leaderboard using ToolJet in 5 minutes

In this tutorial, we will learn how to build a contributor leaderboard using ToolJet and Github API. Github contributor leaderboardThe app is available here: demo Login to your ToolJet installation or ToolJet cloud and create a new application. If you do not have a ToolJet cloud account, you can create