Navaneeth PK - ToolJet

Two years since first commit of ToolJet

Our motivation behind ToolJet is to improve the productivity of developers. ToolJet helps companies build internal tools and business applications with less engineers in less time. It’s been two years since the first commit of ToolJet. Two months later, we open-sourced ToolJet’s codebase on GitHub and launched public

We've raised $4.6m in funding

Around an year ago, we announced seed funding. Today we are excited to announce that we've raised another round of funding. We've raised 4.6m USD in a round led by Nexus Venture Partners. January Capital, Ratio Ventures, Better Capital and a bunch of angel investors such as a Nicolas

Announcing ToolJet 2.0

A lot of things has improved since we launched ToolJet 1.0 an year ago. Today we are excited to launch ToolJet 2.0! We've officially launched on ProductHunt, click the image below to share your review and support us! Before we jump into the new features. Here is how

Hacktoberfest 2022

It is October again! In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved - Linus Torvalds Hacktoberfest is a one-month event that encourages developers everyone to contribute to the open-source projects that they love. We are excited to

Zero to 10,000 stargazers on GitHub

We are excited to announce that our GitHub repository crossed 10,000 stargazers. It has been an amazing journey building ToolJet alongside our energetic and involved community. In this article, we will discuss about our learnings from this fast-paced journey of building an open-source product that the community loves. > For

Announcing ToolJet 1.0 - separating the platform from the product

We launched the public beta of ToolJet in June 2021. Today, we are excited to release the ToolJet 1.0. What were we waiting for? A lot of users are using ToolJet on production environments since August and the platform did not show any stability or scalability issues. We were

The rise of open-source challengers - popular products and their OSS alternatives

In recent years, we have seen a rise in open-source alternatives for popular closed source software. Companies such as AirByte, PostHog, n8n, Supabase, Sentry is adopted by thousands of companies and have raised millions in VC funding. These companies build and maintain products that are open-source alternatives to products like

12 ways to get more GitHub stars for your open-source project

The steps that we took to grow from 0 to 4,500 stars on GitHub within a few months.

Why and how we raised VC funding for an open-source project

The open-source movement gave us many of the software such as operating systems, browsers and databases. They hold a prominent place in the world that we are living in today. The internal projects of large companies such as Kubernetes, React, Angular and Tensorflow that was later open-sourced have become industry

Recap of ToolJet's first Hacktoberfest (2021)

What is Hacktoberfest and why we participated Hacktoberfest 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

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 [https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet/pull/854/files]) 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

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. [https://blog.tooljet.com/migrating-toojet-from-ruby-on-rails-to-nodejs/] It took us more than 3 weeks to port the server

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 [https://blog.tooljet.io/migrating-toojet-from-ruby-on-rails-to-nodejs/], 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

Engineering

Migrating ToolJet server from Ruby on Rails to Node.js

We finally decided to rewrite ToolJet server using TypeScript! ToolJet [https://github.com/ToolJet/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

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

Why ToolJet and why open-source Before 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

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 [https://app.tooljet.io/applications/2786fb9e-34cd-4816-b84c-c7cfc81ff12f] Login to your ToolJet installation or ToolJet cloud and create a new application. If you do not have a